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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to use CSS to reduce width of box around textTry this code
.entry-meta { width: fit-content; }fit-content
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/fit-contentForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Cannot access dashboard after 5.0 update “No update required”The message implies caching problem.
Check with your hosting provider and flush all the cache related to the site.
If any caching plugin installed, login to your site via FTP and rename that plugin’s folder.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrade to WP 5.0 failed/has crashed my siteMost web hosting providers do routine backups, you might be able to ask them to help revert your site to where it was before failed update.
If they refuse to help, then follow the instruction linked above.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrade to WP 5.0 failed/has crashed my siteAlso, if you’ve never done the manual update before, be sure to leave your wp-content folder untouched.
Be careful when you come to copying the wp-content directory. You should make sure that you only copy the files from inside this directory, rather than replacing your entire wp-content directory. This is where your themes and plugins live, so you will want to keep them. https://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress#Manual_Update
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Cannot publish pages with a lot of textThis is a known bug currently set to high priority and assigned to next minor release.
Extensive articles with many words and various blocks make Gutenberg very very slow. #11782
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/11782Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Blank Pages and Posts on WordPress 5.0If the info linked above doesn’t take care of it, then take a look at this ticket
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/45507
a user name csn123 fixed this issue by increasing the memory limit in
wp-config.php. Please be aware that making a mistake editing this file could make your whole site inaccessible. If you are not experienced in editing code on a live site, contact your webhost and ask them to do it for you.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Insert Page into page and flow leftHow many sub(child) pages we are talking about here? If we don’t have that many amount of those pages, we could just manually put in the text/image for each sub(child) page into the main/parent page, and then style it into column with custom CSS or with some grid/column plugin like @pattyayers suggested.
Page doesn’t have category or tag. If you REALLY need those for pages, you can add it via theme function, also there is a plugin for it if you don’t know PHP.
There are also plugins that pull content (post/page with excerpt and image) based on conditions that is useful for users who don’t want to mess with PHP, but to arrange it into column and/or make text overlay on image needs custom CSS.
Check out this plugin
https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Editor shows completely blankI’m just curious, is this happening when creating a new post or with also when editing old post?
For WP 5.0 There is a known bug for when creating new post
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/45507Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Conflating page with category?Your method of using specific category template is the first I think of but of course it’s not the only way to achive this.
I would manually create a regular Page for each category, this way we are free to put in any content into the page, and then make a link to the category archive.
Instead of having category archive links in the menu, we’d just put in the link to those pages.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Add a single page alphabet bar@acruickshank I like the content of your site and would like to help accomplish this, but this is a volunteer forum so everyone here helps out the community when they can, so we can’t always expect the reply shortly in time.
To answer your questions:
RE: #1 Yes, keep repleating the linked alphabet list following the code sample of A, B, C there (you just need to add 23 more lines like that and change the letter to D, E, F until X,Y,Z)
RE: #2 That part will be placed at the beginning of each alphabet, so you get one for A following by all the content under A and then you get one for B following by all the content under B and so on. So this part is like a Title or Header for each alphabet. This part is where the browser will scroll to and stop once the linked alplabet is clicked.
Re: #3 All the custom HTML code should be done in Text Mode.
On a sidenote, there is a better way (no coding required) to construct the page to achieve better result for users to navigate the content like your site, if you are interested please keep checking on this thread, I will put it here when I have time.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Deceased admin of our website, trying to gain control.The podcasts in the site are iframe embeded from mixcloud.com
The theme in use is Divi theme which is one of those drag & drop visual element composer themes that allow users to kind of build custom layout and stuff. This kind of theme is not easy to use, but it has become popular, to use this kind of theme effectively one needs to study theme documentation thoroughly.
My suggestion is to study Divi theme doc, there might be one of those how to use theme for podcast and the former web person might’d used that method.
Go look around in plugin section, if you see anything relate to podcast, get to the plugin details on how to use it properly.
My guess right now, from looking at the source code of the podcast page (link at the top), the page is a simple WP’s page with blank page template (as opposed to an archive of Custom Post Type podcast), this leads me to conclude that all the podcast things in the site are just manual iframe embed from mixcloud.com. If my guess is true, you can continue doing so by uploading the file to mixcloud (once you get the account info, of course), and click on one of the podcast section in the site and study how the former person used the layout and stuff (or just duplicate the page and change the detail).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Add a single page alphabet barYou did it right, almost. The problem now is incorrect HTML, this makes your ABC list not working properly.
This is what in the source right now
<span style="color: #00ff00;">A<a href="http://<div id="A"></div>"> </a> <a href="http://www.aberdeengardening.co.uk/diary/our-plant-list-a-to-z/<a href="#A">A</a>">B</a> C</span>When writing HTML directly into post/page content, always use Text mode (do not use Visual mode). And also as a common practice, use plain text editor to write HTML first and then copy-all to paste into the post/page content.
The code should look something like this
<div class="mylist"> <ul> <li><a href="#A">A</a></li> <li><a href="#B">B</a></li> <li><a href="#C">C</a></li> </ul> </div>and put this into Additional CSS section of WP
.mylist ul li {display: inline; padding: 0 5px;}in the post content, make sure to have those associated id title as this
<div id="A">A</div>Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Comment box is displayed aobve contentsPlease contact your theme support directly, it’s best to ask from those who know it the most.
Go here
https://themefreesia.com/support/or here
https://wordpress.org/support/theme/excellentSince the theme demo doesn’t have the mentioned problems, so the culprits are what had been done to the edited theme file(s) and it’s hard to go figure the details. If it were me, I’d delete the theme from WP (save it somewhere first if you want to keep it for future reference), and then re-upload the fresh unedited copy of the theme. Doing this, generally all the settings won’t be lost because it’s stored in database. But as mentioned above, it’s best to ask directly at theme support.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Deceased admin of our website, trying to gain control.We finally gained access to the Cpanel at namecheap.
So you can use phpmyadmin to reset password (and anything in database). Do this only if you know how it works, interacting directly with db could ruin stuff.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_PasswordForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Header.php copy and paste mistakeHi Tracey, the recent version of WordPress prevents this kind of mistake, this’s why you get that error. Since the job here is to align header/menu, this might be able get done with only CSS and no messing with PHP. I’d suggest you post this question in the theme’s own forum, go to the theme page and click on Support. This way theme’s author and/or the community that use the same theme can help with the idea.