Tim Nash

It sounds like the ‘Project’ posts are Custom Post Type probably being generated by your theme or plugin. http://codex.wordpress.org/Post_Types

WordPress by default only has Posts and Pages, however with Custom Post Types it can be extended to do other things.

In this case either a plugin or theme has added Project with custom properties, such as not having categories. Custom Post Types can be incredibly useful, but often themes abuse them. If I had to guess I would say in this case, the theme you are using, is using Project posts, to be styled differently.

If you are using the WordPress menu under appearances, you can add custom link and just put in the url of the sub site in there with custom name.

Can you directly access your admin backend?

Couple of things to do, if you can then first off visit Settings -> Permalinks
And note down how your permalinks are set, then reset them to the default “ugly” look, visit your site and check it’s going to posts.

Then go back and set it back to how you had them, has the problem resolved?

If not, did it write to the htaccess file, or give you an error?

If not then, its most likely related to a plugin, starting with a caching plugins its going to be a case of switching them off and then back on again until it works.

I don’t want peeps to leave with unpleasant feelings, I think it’s just a sensitive subject 🙁

On the gravatars, your gravatar is yours, to personalise how you like, while people like myself would prefer not to see company logos and motifs, they are allowed and to a certain level tolerated.

The example where you linked to with a company name in their name section, makes many folks here very uncomfortable, while there is no overriding policy it’s something that is very much being discussed.

Currently the only actively enforced policy is regarding promoting business, the definition of which is up to interpretation by mods. If someone was to change their name to Awesome Balls Company with their Gravatar to their company logo and then posted a link, to say a resource on their own site, or referenced their company then I suspect mods would act differently to them then say someone called Yehdah with a cartoon Gravatar posting the same content. Regardless if either party posted sales pitch etc they would be treated the same way.

As Jan said it’s a line, and a judgement call, but there would be far more leeway given to those who don’t push the line so to speak. So you can expect a better reaction from Mods if you post as yourself and not your company, hopefully this thread when seen from that light will appear less hostile.

Personally and this is a personal opinion, I think when companies and individuals use company logos and company names as usernames it looks incredibly tacky and spammy. So far from being a promotional tool, it would put me off.

On the flip side, I have seen some great corporate branding with Gravatar, like Yoasts team, with their individual cartoon Gravatars, which are very memorable and quite professional looking.

Hopefully that makes sense, as I said at the start its a sensitive and an active conversation.

I think you have gotten your sites mixed up, don’t worry you are not alone!

WordPress.org – is the site for the software called WordPress, the site is run entirely by volunteers and has no ticketing system.

WordPress.com is a commercial venture run by Automatic a company who also run Akismet amongst other services.

It sounds like you are using WordPress.com services in which case you need to get in touch with them directly as they won’t be monitoring these forums.

Good luck sorting it though.

Sadly not a lot we can do to help with Akismet logins, best of getting in touch with them directly. Going to close this thread as really nothing we can do and don’t want it to steer to far off topic

backup the .htaccess and then delete it, its probably the s2 rules causing the issue 😉