zachalbert

Okay – I figured it out I think – there was a placeholder index.html in the directory which was being given preference over WP’s index.php. Renaming that file fixed it, but not there are odd permissions issues.

2 plugins – WP Cycle and JW Player both require the uploads directory to work. I keep getting the error:

Activation of the JW Player Plugin for WordPress could not complete successfully. The following directories could not be created automatically:

– /home/xroads/domains/crossroadsnampa.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress
– /home/xroads/domains/crossroadsnampa.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/configs
– /home/xroads/domains/crossroadsnampa.com/public_html/wp-content/uploads/jw-player-plugin-for-wordpress/player
Please ensure these directories are writable. For tips on how to make sure this folder is writable please refer to http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions.

The permissions for these directories were 755, so I temporarily changed to 777, deactivated then reactivated the plugin. That didn’t fix it, so I kept going further up the tree so that wp-content and wp-content/uploads were 777, and still no change. Any ideas?

Oh, thanks a lot, that totally works!

Okay I think I understand. The nav links won’t work because my homepage is a static page, not a posts page, right?

But I ran into a new problem. So here’s what I did: I created a new page, with only a title of “Whatever.” Under the page template section of “Whatever,” I selected a different template from the static+posts page. The “Whatever” template has only a single loop calling for the posts and has the Template Name: section at the beginning of the php file.

My static frontpage points to the page with static+3 posts. My “posts page” points to the page I created above. When I actually go to this page though, I doesn’t use the new template, but same template as the static+posts page. The only difference is it displays 3 posts with the first loop (just like the homepage) and all the posts with the second loop (whereas on the homepage it displays the static content).

But I have checked and rechecked to make sure the “posts page” uses a different template in the dashboard. When I actually play with that file like adding or subtracting major sections, nothing happens. It’s like it can only use the default template that my homepage uses. How do I fix this?