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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Only the first few lines of my post appearHi nicholeclare.
Different WordPress themes display your post on the home page in different ways. Many times you can log into WordPress and head over to your theme’s settings and adjust how much of your post or how little you want to show on your home page.
When people click on the post title, they should be sent to the actual post where people can comment as well.
There are certain reasons why you might not want your entire post to show on your home page. Two such reasons would be duplicate content (nothing real bad but can hurt some in search engine rankings) and also making your home page really long with lots of words.
A home page is a great navigational page, so many people simply like to put snippets of their last 5-10 articles on there for people to preview and then click over to read more.
There is a plugin called Evermore which I like which will allow you to display more of your post on the home page if you like.
If you want to display the full content of each recent post on your home page, there should be a setting someone in WordPress, maybe under your theme’s settings, where you can change this option.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Permalinks Setting Page DisappearedNot really sure. Do you have this problem if you use a different web browser?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sidebar at the bottom of the pageSorry, I’m not sure without actually getting into your code and debugging.
Those errors might be in your page.php file. Check to make sure you have the closing > in your tags W3.org shows.
When I see a problem like the one you have, my first checks are typically to see if code is placed inside a
<div>tag when it should be outside one and then also a css issue.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Sidebar at the bottom of the pageLooks like when I click on a post’s title to view only the post, the sidebar looks fine.
Make sure your sidebar() function is called properly in the page.php file like it is in post.php file.
The call should be at the bottom of the files. Typically, this is what the bottom of your page.php file should look like:
<?php get_sidebar(); ?> <?php get_footer(); ?>The sidebar() function might need to be below a
</div>tag (i.e. it might be inside one it shouldn’t be in).Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Username DisappearsStrange. Never heard of that one before, I hope your site wasn’t hacked.
You could try changing the password directly through the database:
http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/You could also change the username while you’re there. There’s also a plugin to change your username in WordPress, if you’d like to go that route.
Just make sure to deactivate (and maybe delete) the plugin when you’re done. Not that it has a security hole, but the idea of leaving a plugin on the server which edits that information makes me nervous.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: I really screwed it up! Moving to root directoryHere is the correct way to move your blog to root.
WordPress also shows how to do it – Moving WordPress.
If you can get your site back to the way it was, then follow these directions.
Also, make sure if your blog files are still in the /wp directory, you open up your index.php file and point the wp-blog-header.php to the right place.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Issue with Static HomepageLooks like you have 2 Pages named Home. Log into WordPress and head over to your “Pages” area. Look to see if there’s one named “Home”. Don’t delete it, just rename it and see if one of the Home links change to the new name.
If so, then you probably don’t need it and can delete that page. Just make sure that’s the one you can delete before you go deleting it, though.
Rename it to, say, “Temp”. If the second Home menu link changes to say “Temp”, then you can delete it.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: New Blog Seems to be HackedLooks like a hack to me. This code always gives it away: base64_decode
You could try installing numerous WordPress security upgrades, that would probably help if the issues isn’t on the server.
If you host’s server was hacked, there’s not much you can do other than request to be moved to another server or hope your hosting company fixes the problem. I’d call them and let them know what’s going on.
Also, are you creating a new database with each new install, or using the same one?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to – Post Preview?Thanks Ralph. 😉
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Reset Password any other way?Through phpMyAdmin is how you do it.
Try this tutorial. Simply follow what he does step by step.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: I need Urgent help!!If you don’t have FTP set up, you can delete it through your hosting file manager as well.
If it’s still messed up, ask your hosting company if they have the previous day’s backup of your website.
Some companies restore it for free, others charge.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: New To Plugins… Help!Hello eleshop. What is your blog address so I can take a look.
I’m not familiar with the Photoblog plugin, but the subscribe to comments should put a little checkbox under your comment textarea box where people can check to “subscribe to comments”.
Not seeing that?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: My Blog has been hacked :(….This is a good reason why everyone needs to install security features to harden their WordPress installation.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: where is my initial posthuh?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: After upgrading to latest version my blog died….Through your web hosting control panel, there should be a way to get to your MySQL databases. Go there and then click on the database your WordPress installation uses.
Hopefully, it’ll log you into your database automatically, if not, you will need to get your database password and login. To find that, head back over to your wp-config.php file and open it using the hosting control panel’s editor. Look for the database username and password.
Once you are able to get into your database through phpMyAdmin (through the MySQL Databases), you will be able to see your database server (you could also ask your hosting provider).
Our company has a video showing people how to switch their hosting from one company over to ours. We have 2 videos showcasing how to do that (this is not meant as an advertisement here). The videos will show you how to get into your wp-config.php file and the database info needed for it. Hope it helps.