Andrea Garza

update_option('siteurl','http://example.com');
update_option('home','http://example.com');

Add that back to your functions.php replacing example.com with your url (be sure to add www if you want to force www in your url).

then you should be able to get your home page and dashboard,
THEN, go to permalinks and update your permalink (you don’t have to change it just press update), this will update your .htaccess file, then your site should work just fine.

Make sure the urls in settings < general are correct

THEN go to functions.php and remove those statements you put there. You’re set

It could be they unchecked the assign the menu to its theme location ..
Appearance < menu < menu settings < theme location

if you can’t get into the dashboard .. then via cpanel, go to wp-content/themes and go to the simplemag theme folder and open the header.php file and copy the contents and put them here

I am assuming you just accidentally left off the </title>
if not, you need to close the title tag usig </title> just after the last ?>

I hover over Oakland County, click on Birthday parties, takes me to this page:
http://oaklandcountymoms.com/category/oakland-county/birthday-parties/

and lists all posts for birthday parties (paginated, 4 pages of them) ..

It is not showing up in your Recent Articles on home page however.
Can you post the php from your index.php or homepage template (whichever your theme is using) here.

sure thing, have fun

its because you’ve made the same page several times and named it the same thing. Everytime you create a new page and name it the same as something you already have, it will add a 1 or 2 or whatever at the end of the url.

You need to edit the SLUG and remove the dash and number from it, then press OK, then press update.

The slug may be the little url under your title in the page while editing it, or you may see below the textbox area a place that says “slug” where you can edit it there, if you don’t see it, then go to screen options at top right corner of editor on that page and put a checkmark by “slug”, then close the screen options, then you can see the slug.

Be sure to press OK, after editing the slug, then dont forget to press Update (republish the page) .. If you have any links hardcoded to the old links be sure to update those to your new page links.

I just realised there are 2 directories with .htaccess files,
1) /public_html
2) /www

These are the same place (www is just a shortcut to public_html).
For now, let’s just remove this statement from just before the
# END WordPress statement in your .htaccess

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.viralarchives\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.viralarchives.com/$1 [R=301,L]

so that the ONLY thing in your .htaccess file is

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

This should fix any strange errors. If so, then from there we can work on getting www forced into the url. That said, I use hostgator and simply updating the url in the general settings to have www in it (both the urls you see there in Settings < general and it forces www.

Are you directing your domain to hostgator via using their nameservers or are you pointing only the A record to their IP address? If using their nameservers it should work flawlessly without any .htaccess hack. If pointing A record to an IP then you may not have it pointed for www also .. you need to get with your DNS records and that would be your issue if that is how you’re pointing it to your hosting.