RossMitchell
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Updating theme with custom code and no child themeMuch as wpbees said, but I suggest that you get a copy of the theme of th version that the previous developer started with, just maybe they left around a ZIP file, otherwise themeforest may have it. Now do a 3 way compare of the theme files:
-Original theme
-Customized theme
-updated theme
This will help you identify the first developer’s changes and help you incorporate them into the new child theme you are creating.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Not Enough Space to Install WordPressThis really does look like a problem within the automated installer (likely Installatron or Fantastico) they are using, clearly it has a problem with the size of variables used in testing for adequate space, your available space is so large that it has wrapped and may even look negative! It seems that sitepoint either can’t or wont do anything to fix this.
What you can do instead is do a manual install of WordPress, it is not at all hard and provides experience with tools that are likely to be useful later.
The essence of what you need starts at the “Detailed Instructions” heading here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
You will need an FTP program like filezillaForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 2017 theme, how to change nav menu font?It would help us help you if you included a link to your website. I could give yo the exact way to target your css.
Since I can’t do that you can work it out yourself. While viewing one of your pages, activate your web browser’s “browser inspector”, each browser (firefox / chrome / safari / IE ) has one. Set it in highlight mode and go to the top menu, the HTML and css will follow along, read off the classes that are specific to the menu items, and target the font attributes in css, use the theme customizer > additional css to add it, or your child theme.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Issues after hack cleanupGood work.
If you have not done this then you need to go through:
https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked
And then:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Hardening_WordPressShould you (or anyone else) be interested in the why and how of these hacks, here are some historic reports:
http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/06/24/how-to-completely-clean-your-hacked-wordpress-installation/
http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2012/11/14/hacked-on-hostpapa-or-netregistry/
http://ottopress.com/2009/hacked-wordpress-backdoors/If you think it is appropriate could you mark this thread resolved.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Typo and fields on homepageYour first task is to get an administrator level login to your WordPress dashboard. If you don’t have this then nothing else matters, there are various ways of forcing this if necessary, detailed here:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_PasswordIf you are an administrator, all I can suggest is that you take your time and systematically browse through the various control and configuration pages, you will find Amsterdam somewhere. Also find your type of homepage from Settings > General, the page or post so nominated will probably take you to the typo.
By the way you also need to revoke the access your developer had.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Transfering custom CSS to child themeOtherwise you may have used either the “customizer > additional css” OR a custom CSS plugin.
You need to create a child theme, details here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes
-Activate your child theme
-Then pick up your CSS changes and add them to the end of the style.css file of the child theme, add just a little difference so that you know that it is really this CSS which is active, something subtle like “color:red;”. Remove the CSS customizations from their present place.
-Test it.
-Remove the test setting.Note that for myself I don’t think that there is a particular urgency in doing this conversion.
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: Site not reachable error after uploading the websiteI found that:
http://lifeandexistence.in/demo/precistat/readme.html
Loads as expected, is this a clue ?Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Apply Custom CSS to one page of the DashboardYou may find it simpler to just add some custom cs that targets the fact that the dashboard > Appearance > menus page has a body element with a class of:
.nav-menus-phpForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Issues after hack cleanupYou need to effectively purge your websites and then reinstall WordPress and then recover your content. Of course at the very first step you change all the website management passwords, and the mySQL passwords, and make them all different.
Getting the “index of directory” means that there are no “index.html” or “index.php” files.
If you have not already read and acted upon this:
https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_My_site_was_hacked
then you really need to do that now.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: block quote issue — the vertical bar needs to go awayI am sorry but you are asking about wordpress.com which is not supported here, there are differences between it and wordpress.org which is the software supported here.
Because of these differences it is possible that advice given here will not apply. For instance I would suggest that you use the customizer > additional css and fiddle with the css used on quotes, but I don’t know if this would work there.
Please seek support at wordpress.comForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Back to my topic KallyasThemes are a site wide setting, you can’t just change the theme which is used by one section such as a gallery. So you need to change your theme back to Kallyas.
To change theme:
-Login to your WordPress dashboard
-On the left hand side go to “Appearance” > “Themes”
– Find the Kallyas theme, select and apply it.If you want to change the gallery presentation you need to look into using customised CSS.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Theme that’s not workingSorry, under the rules of this forum the only support that is offered is in text using these messages.
If you need live or interactive support you could:
– post a job on the jobs forum such as: http://jobs.wordpress.net/
– find a local WordPress professional such as at a local meetup, details here: https://www.meetup.com/So you have a new theme that is not working.
Suggest that you:
– Delete the theme and install it again.
– Talk to the theme support forum.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Site menu not appearing on posts pageTry temporarily turning off the plugin, it may simplify the situation.
When configuring menus, it is necessary to first define the menu and configure its contents, then you need to set the menu locations. Check that you have done this.
If you have the skills you could read the page templates and see if they match what you have done.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to Make Nagivation Menu HorizontalYou need to seek support from “wordpress.com” support. This is wordpress.org which is sufficiently different to make advice here unreliable.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: an image with a http url that needs to be changed to httpsFind which widget is using this image.
Maybe you can then edit the URL it is using, otherwise DELETE this widget, then add it back in again using the same image, most likely it will then use the new URL.