RossMitchell
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Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: Logged In, but don’t see my WP dashboard anymoreI suggest that you delete the present localhost WordPress setup and database and start again using just one set of instructions, presumably XAMPP has such a document.
Of course now that you have a hosted website you could bypass this step for quite a while. In this case I suggest that you setup a second WordPress site to experiment with using a subdomain, something like “trial.<yourdomain>” or “dev.<yourdomain>”, you can even password protect it so as to keep your experiments off google.Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: Logged In, but don’t see my WP dashboard anymoreNeither of those options work and returned “this site can’t be reached” page.
Then your webserver is probably not running.
Just to run this to ground, what did you set into the “site address” and “WordPress address” of your settings ? This would help sorting out where the webserver was supposed to fetch the website from.This is important because while your browser can display HTML or JPG etc FILES, it is not able to do anything with “.php” files, they need the webserver to interpret them, connect to databases etc.
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: Logged In, but don’t see my WP dashboard anymoreBut, it’s more like C:/xampp/htdocs/wordpress/readme.html, in the event that matters.
YES, it does matter.
Please try:
http://localhost/wordpress/readme.htmlor
http://127.0.0.1/wordpress/readme.htmlor similar.
The difference is that I want the apache2 webserver involved, that is the test, hence why you need the http.By all means go ahead and do your installation and development at Bluehost, you could bypass the need for your XAMPP localhost setup this way, but some things are easier if you can do them on localhost, especially if you use the “virtualhost” technique.
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: Logged In, but don’t see my WP dashboard anymoreYes you may have multiple issues, some of which are about your apache2 / mySQL / local hosting environment and not strictly bout WordPress.
You do not need Filezilla and or FTP to access the files on your own computer, ignore that advice and any other advice from the same source is suspect, they may know less than you do.
Is your apache2 webserver running ? To test this see if you can display the readme.html file which comes with WordPress, so use your browser to an URL like:
http://localhost/readme.htmlor something similar, you may have added a directory name in your setup. If it displays then your webserver is running, if it is not then you need support from someone with XAMPP experience.Did your readme.html file display ?
It would help us help you if you included a link to a page which exhibited your issue.
So you have a snippet of CSS you want to use. Login to your website admin, bring up a page which has your featured image caption, on the top admin bar, choose “customizer” > “Additional CSS”, paste your CSS in here. You should see the results immediately, fiddle with it if necessary, Click “PUBLISH” when you are happy.
Suggest that you get familiar with your web browser’s “browser inspector”, it will show you how your HTML and CSS are being used.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange Cache ProblemCould it be that the webserver is using files that are different to the files you are seeing ?
Are you using FTP or your website management file manager ? Whichever it is use the other.
Again, have you talked to your hosting technical support ?Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Change the color of one block of textcan php have the color inline?
Actually it is HTML that can have color inline, the same
style=in HTML elements can place CSS into that context.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Remove header for a single pageUsing the browser inspector, I see that the DIV that structures the page heading+menu etc, starts like this:
<div id="header" style="">
The ID needs a hash “#” as a CSS prefix, similarly CLASS needs a dot “.” prefix.
Confusingly the “page id” is actually a class.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange Cache ProblemHave you talked with your webserver technical support ?
Presumably you have already:
– deleted the file
– viewed that it is deleted
– upload the correct file
– viewed that it is updatedForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Woocommerce +/- quantity selection issueSuggest that you seek support from the authors of your theme “flatsome”
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Change the color of one block of textThe html in the page is:
<p> <span style="color: #c9ad2c;">Get In Touch With Us</span> </p>So the color is inline, either in the page or the page template.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to have an invisible clickable link box around text?If you set the CSS on the
"<a>"region todisplay: block;then the rectangle responds to clicks not just the text.- This reply was modified 8 years ago by RossMitchell.
- This reply was modified 8 years ago by RossMitchell.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: plus and less button woocommerceIt would help us help you if you included an URL to a page which has this issue.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Remove header for a single pageYour css was close.
Try this in your custom CSS:.page-id-1321 #header { display: none; }I used my browser inspector to see how the css was named etc.
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: Cannot Connect via Localhost; 127.0.0.1 works fineWhich browser are you using ? InternetExplorer / Firefox / Chrome ? Whichever it is try a different one.
Have you cleared the browser cache ? (Some browsers hold their cache longer than you would believe, like some that take a 301 redirect (which admittedly is a permanent redirect) as absolutely permanent, and cache the result forever.)
What is in your “hosts” file ? Details here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)