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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Excerpt issue affecting global instead of post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-issue-affecting-global-instead-of-post/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
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 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-issue-affecting-global-instead-of-post/#post-6278932)
 * Oops sorry, this is what I get for replying to threads while tired. In your content.
   php find this code:
 *     ```
       the_content( sprintf(
         __( 'Continue reading %s <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentythirteen' ),
         the_title( '<span class="screen-reader-text">', '</span>', false )
       ) );
   
       wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-links"><span class="page-links-title">' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentythirteen' ) . '</span>', 'after' => '</div>', 'link_before' => '<span>', 'link_after' => '</span>' ) );
       ```
   
 * And replace it with:
 *     ```
       if( is_single() ) {
         the_content( sprintf(
           __( 'Continue reading %s <span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span>', 'twentythirteen' ),
           the_title( '<span class="screen-reader-text">', '</span>', false )
         ) );
   
         wp_link_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="page-links"><span class="page-links-title">' . __( 'Pages:', 'twentythirteen' ) . '</span>', 'after' => '</div>', 'link_before' => '<span>', 'link_after' => '</span>' ) );
       } else {
         the_excerpt();
       }
       ```
   
 * That should do it.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Excerpt issue affecting global instead of post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-issue-affecting-global-instead-of-post/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
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 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excerpt-issue-affecting-global-instead-of-post/#post-6278913)
 * Make sure you’re still using the_content() in single.php, which is the file WP
   uses to display a specific post. It sounds like you’ve accidentally changed it
   to excerpt there as well as wherever you intended to change it.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [404 error on new menus rather than posts in category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-on-new-menus-rather-than-posts-in-category/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
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 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-on-new-menus-rather-than-posts-in-category/#post-6278478)
 * The first thing I’d suggest is to try flushing your permalinks. In the admin 
   panel go to Settings > Permalinks and hit save changes. Does that fix the issue?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Changing my background](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/novice-needing-help/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
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 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/novice-needing-help/#post-6278473)
 * Hi Paul
 * Your post is a little wide-ranging and covers lots of questions. First of all,
   the look of your homepage is entirely governed by the theme so if you’re working
   with a theme from wp.org and need help changing specific things, please ask. 
   If you’re working with a theme from elsewhere the best people to help you make
   changes would be the theme developers.
 * I’m not personally familiar with using WP-United so can’t say how much of what
   you need would come built in with that, but [a quick look at its support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-united)
   suggest that other people have recently had problems with it too. Whether the
   plugin is still under development or not I can’t say, but the WP-United website
   seems to be down too. It might be worth looking into whether there are alternative
   solutions. Sorry I don’t have better news on that!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Resizing photos](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resizing-photos-1/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
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 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resizing-photos-1/#post-6278466)
 * Hi
 * We’ll need a bit more info to be able to help you. Do you have a link to the 
   site we could take a look at?
 * How are you adding products, WooCommerce?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [How to Remove the Google Custom Searce](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-google-custom-searce/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
 * (@shellbot)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-remove-the-google-custom-searce/#post-6278030)
 * As a first step, have you tried deactivating your plugins? If this solves the
   issue, you can reactivate one at a time to find the culprit.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Adding H1 tag UNDER my logo](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-under-my-logo/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
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 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-under-my-logo/#post-6278029)
 * Try replacing the relevant bit of code (from the second line you posted, to the
   seventh) with this:
 *     ```
       <?php if ($theme->get_option('themater_logo_source') == 'image') { ?>
       "><img src="<?php $theme->option('logo'); ?>" alt="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?>" />
       <?php } ?>
       <h1 class="site_title">"><?php $theme->option('site_title'); ?></h1>
       ```
   
 * It just removes the if/else and should display the h1 at all times. This code
   is untested so please make a backup of the file before making any changes.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Change myname.me/wp to myname.me](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-mynamemewp-to-mynameme-1/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
 * (@shellbot)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-mynamemewp-to-mynameme-1/#post-6278028)
 * You can move the WordPress installation by following [this guide](https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_Directories_On_Your_Existing_Server).
   You’ll be moving WP into your root directory, so just be sure to follow every
   step there.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Set feature image stopped working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-feature-image-stopped-working/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
 * (@shellbot)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/set-feature-image-stopped-working/#post-6278027)
 * Jut to clarify, the process of adding a featured image in the admin panel is 
   working as expected but the featured images no longer show up on the actual site?
   Are all featured images affected or just the ones you’ve added since the problem
   began?
 * Step 1 would be to switch to a default theme (like Twenty Fifteen) and disable
   your plugins. If the missing images reappear, the problem is either with a specific
   plugin or with your theme and reactivating everything one by one will help to
   narrow it down further.
 * If that doesn’t work, a link to your site would be helpful.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [External link from Facebook logo not working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-link-from-facebook-logo-not-working/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
 * (@shellbot)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/external-link-from-facebook-logo-not-working/#post-6278026)
 * How are you adding the links? A theme options panel, a plugin/widget of some 
   kind, directly in the theme template files?
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WordPress -vs- Bootstrap: Which is the better way to go](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-vs-bootstrap-which-is-the-better-way-to-go/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
 * (@shellbot)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-vs-bootstrap-which-is-the-better-way-to-go/#post-6268921)
 * You’re correct, people build websites with WordPress and don’t use _Bootstrap_
   specifically. They do however always use a front-end theme of some kind, involving
   HTML and CSS and often JavaScript. That part is not controlled by WordPress, 
   just integrated with the functions that WP provides for outputting content. I
   think that’s where the confusion lies.
 * Bootstrap is a framework for building the look of a thing with HTML, CSS and 
   JS. It can be used to build just a flat website with no CMS attached, or it can
   be used to build a theme for a CMS such as WordPress.
 * So again, the question isn’t WP vs Bootstrap. It’s CMS vs no CMS and there are
   plenty of arguments from both sides of that on the internet already 🙂
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [[Easy Image Display] Shortcode not present](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-present/)
 *  Plugin Author [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
 * (@shellbot)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-present/#post-5097071)
 * Apologies for this, seems there was a problem with my domain while away on holiday.
   Repo files are updated, but until those refresh you can find all the info here:
   [http://codebyshellbot.com/wordpress-plugins/easy-image-display/](http://codebyshellbot.com/wordpress-plugins/easy-image-display/)
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [WordPress -vs- Bootstrap: Which is the better way to go](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-vs-bootstrap-which-is-the-better-way-to-go/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
 * (@shellbot)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-vs-bootstrap-which-is-the-better-way-to-go/#post-6268850)
 * This is a confusing question. WordPress and Bootstrap are two entirely different
   things that do entirely different things, there is no decision to make between
   the two.
 * Use WordPress if you want a nice, user-friendly, popular CMS to manage your content.
   Use Bootstrap if you want to get a quick start on developing what your site looks
   like. Use both if you want both of those things (and if you don’t want to use
   any existing WP themes, of course).
 * I usually use both, because they’re both awesome. But they’re entirely different
   things.
 * It sounds more like your question is whether to use a CMS or not, which does 
   to an extent depend on the type of site but I’d say that even a basic brochure
   site benefits from being built on a CMS, since it adds flexibility for the future
   and allows the site owner to make basic changes without knowing HTML. Your mileage
   may vary.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Featured Blogs with Images – not showing snippets of blog](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-blogs-with-images-not-showing-snippets-of-blog/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
 * (@shellbot)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/featured-blogs-with-images-not-showing-snippets-of-blog/#post-6262387)
 * It looks like the image size is the only problem, the text is actually there 
   as expected but is covered up by the outsized image.
 * Now, your theme is a paid one so I can’t install it to look around, do you use
   the featured image field to add those homepage images or does it automatically
   pull the first image from each post without you doing anything special?
 * If the latter, the only difference I can see between the latest post and the 
   others is that this one has the image as the first piece of content, whereas 
   previous posts have included text before the first image. It’s vaguely possible
   that this is messing with however the theme detects the first image and that 
   rearranging to have a paragraph of text before the image will fix it.
 * Given that this is a premium theme that we don’t have access to, I’m surprised
   the developers couldn’t help on their own forum. There’s only so much we can 
   do from here without knowledge of the theme specifics, but I can try!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [getting posts under category to show](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-posts-under-category-to-show/)
 *  [Shellbot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shellbot/)
 * (@shellbot)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/getting-posts-under-category-to-show/#post-6262386)
 * Off the top of my head there are a couple of quick things you can check to help
   figure out what’s going on.
 * 1) If you add the basic “categories” widget to your sidebar, do the links there
   work as expected or do they also give 404s?
    2) If those work, are the links 
   pointing to the same place as your menu links? 3) If those _don’t_ work, have
   you tried flushing your permalinks? (Settings > Permalinks, click save)
 * Those steps should give us a better idea of the problem.

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