Tim Nash
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Cookies popupDo you and your husband have the same anti-virus software installed, or some sort of clean up software designed to speed up your machines by any chance. Have you noticed the same notice on other sites, that looks identical?
Also in Chrome, if you go into incognito mode, and visit the site (but don’t login) do you see the same pop up? When you login does the pop -up show (when in incognito)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Tags and Meta TagsYou wandering dangerously into general SEO questions, probably best suited by someone far more knowledgable then me however image alt tags have a very important purpose and that is for anyone using a screen reader (a piece of software that reads the content on the screen) will hear the Alt tag when they get to an image.
Depending on what your site is, where you live, who your audience is you actually might have a legal requirement to make sure your site is accessible as such alt tags should be standard anyway, it’s also just good manners. It’s worth baring in mind, if you leave the alt empty, but leave in alt=”” then people with readers will get something that says “alt tag empty” so if you are not going to use the alt tag make sure you remove it from image tag.
For people searching for images, I believe some search engines make heavy use of both the alt tag and description tags.
I would suggest if you want to go any more in-depth you check out some basic SEO tutorials, Yoast.com and Moz.com are both good beginner level places to start with lots of good material.
The Web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the Web site, and the IP address of your browsing computer is on this list.
Seems pretty specific as error messages go 🙂
This is something you done in IIS rather then WordPress which also means I really don’t know how you did it as I rarely touch IIS however a quick Google I suspect you probably did http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc730889.aspx
Which hopefully point you in the right direction!
So just to check are you getting the following error
You are not authorized to view this page
The Web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the Web site, and the IP address of your browsing computer is on this list.
Please try the following:Contact the Web site administrator if you believe you should be able to view this directory or page.
HTTP Error 403.6 – Forbidden: IP address of the client has been rejected.
Internet Information Services (IIS)Which is the error I got when visiting that page, the error is because my IP (and if you are getting it yours as well) is not on a list of approved IPs.
This is an extra security precaution who ever set up WordPress for you has done, IPs are not always static, so if you are logging in from a new location, you will probably need to give your administrator your new IP. Also a lot of smaller business and home ISP use dynamic IPs so reissue IPs periodically, so even if you are in the same location your IP may change.
So check your IP simply Google “what’s my IP” and let your sysadmin or whoever put the restriction in place your new IP.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Page gone blankThe white page is because the Recent Facebook Posts plugin is generating a fatal error on your server which basically means it’s freaked out.
You were doing the right steps, close down filezilla entirely, and then re-open it and connect to your site, navigate to your plugins directory and rather then deleting the plugin just rename it.
Assuming that works you should be able to login and everything should be back to normal.
Don’t reactivate the plugin though, instead if you have access to an error log, see if it generated an error and then you are best of posting a new thread specific to that plugin with the details.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Trouble with search resultsWhen you say do a search for your site, where are you searching?
Do you mean when you use Google to search it doesn’t bring back your homepage in the results?Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Cookies popupHave you already solved this issue, visiting your site I didn’t see any pop ups while navigating around.
With regard to do you need a cookie pop up, if you host in the EU and or are based in the EU there are a range of privacy laws that effect your site, and a huge debate about what you should and shouldn’t do. The consensus has recently been pop up cookie notices are not needed, simply a well publicised privacy policy and notifications cookies are used should suffice. However I am not a lawyer and if in doubt consult one 😀
Oh and updated to WordPress 4 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How do I remove /home in my homepage permalinkJust to confirm:
You have created a page, which you have called Home
and you would like this page, to be your home page, and not the page currently showing?In which case have you followed the steps found:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_PageNormally such issues come, when you are in the the code view, and you don’t close a tag so WordPress automatically tries to close and wrap the content in a p tag.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Link Gallery/Portfolio Images to PDF?First off it’s really important that if it’s possible you update your WordPress version to the latest version. From 3.6 this will provide not only significantly new features but a host of security updates. Given the sensitive nature of your site, this is of even more important. There should be no reason not to do this update, once updated you should also be able to then use the automatic updates so your WordPress install remains up to date.
Unfortunately the gallery shortcode is just for images, and can’t be used for what you want to do.
There are plugins that offer control over how the page looks, so you can manually make the page act like the gallery also there are gallery plugins which allow extra control. Once you update to WordPress 4.0 have a look in the plugins sections on wp.org for gallery and you will find a range which should suit your needs.
You will most likely need to update before installing new plugin, as many will not be compatible with such an old version of WordPress.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to analyse traffic for wordpress postsYou have several options,
You can add the code to your footer.php file in your themes just before the </html> tag.Alternatively there are lot’s of plugins that will allow you to set up tracking code without doing any coding, the most popular one is https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/
When you say no opportunity to login, when you are redirected to that URL, are you not seeing the login screen?
If you then login, does it immediately return you back to the login screen?
You obviously changed mysite.com for privacy reasons, but do both URLs match, the login and redirect_to url?
Finally do you have access to any form of error logs and do they have anything in them?
sorry for barrage of opening questions.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Include elements for post/pages on home pageIf you don’t mind getting your hands a little dirty, then you could do this in a variety ways.
The simplest way is to use a plugin like Advanced Custom Fields (which is free though there is a pro version), to add your metabox, then you would need to modify your theme homepage loop to show only posts with a specific metadata.
This is where it will get little vague as depending on your theme this might be as simple as
'meta_query' => array( array ( 'key' => 'your_meta_key', 'value' => '1', 'compare' => '==' ) )into your loop query, or it might be more complicated if your theme already does lot’s of custom work.
There are other options such as using Flexible Post Widget which creates a widget, allowing you lots of control and then displaying that widget on your home page.
Hopefully that get’s you in the right direction, if you go down the ACF route, they have some pretty good documentation, and dedicated support forum, where people have asked similar things, specific to their theme and people have been able to go into specifics.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Tags and Meta TagsWordPress tags and meta tags are two separate things.
WordPress tags are similar to categories and are a way for your users to navigate and classify posts, like categories, when you tag something and nothing else has been tagged, then a new tag archive page is created for that term. If a page exists then the post will show up in that terms page.
The difference between categories and tags, are categories are defined and hierarchical while tags, are associated loose groupings the fancy term for tags is Folksonomies.
You don’t have to use tags, some people use tags, others use categories, some do both. From a search engine perspective, the generating lots of pages can some times be a problem, so it’s worth reading up about peoples opinions on the subject and how to handle them.
Meta Tags on the other hand, appear in the head of the page, they were designed to help robots identify what the content was about. However they are not as far as I know used by any major search engine these days. So really are just there for a sake of completeness and historical context, along with the odd search engine still using them.
Hope that makes sense