Leaving comment messes up screen

I was looking at this one:

https://mghachem.scripts.mit.edu/lawandrevolution/

The child theme was visible/active before – now back to your regular. But the comments there seemed to work for me too. I got that FF message too – I think that’s just how JetPack comments work (I really don’t know but they’re connected to WP.COM I think…) – but when I tried just now seemed to be the normal comments and no such “stuff.” Still sounds like something weird might be going on, so let’s keep going on getting stuff moved to the child theme and then getting a new copy of twentytwelve installed.

You can download a new copy of it here:

https://www.ads-software.com/themes/twentytwelve

A good way to compare files is https://www.diffchecker.com/

On the header images, you may have to redo those in the child theme – if they were set under theme options in the dashboard they won’t carry over, unfortunately.

Many thanks — I greatly appreciate the support.

Will plug away at the child theme and get it going again without the new Jetpack comments module, which seems to be the source of the trouble. I did just deactivate the module so you may have now seen the “normal” twentytwelve comments function.

Thanks!

For my self-hosted WordPress site, to get a new copy of twentytwelve installed (in connection with creating my child theme), all I have to do is deactivate it from within my WordPress admin page, delete it, and then install again, correct? That’s what I’ve already done. Or do I actually have to download a new twentytwelve folder to my local computer and then go by FTP into my server, delete the existing twentytwelve folder, and paste in the new one?

Thanks!

You should be able to delete it first (in the dashboard) and then install it again. But if that doesn’t seem to do it, FTP would definitely get rid of everything – so long as you delete the folder first and then reupload a new one (download to your local machine, yes).

Your theme settings (things you did in the dashboard) will be saved in the database, so reinstalling won’t give you a “brand new empty” version (no need for that).

and again thanks!

You’re totally welcome – I’m only sorry this has been a bit less than graceful on my part :/ . But I am glad that you’ll be on better ground moving forward :). Let’s cross our fingers too!

No worries, it has been just fine, I am learning. Can I add a last question? Since I am creating a child theme, does the .htaccess file go in the child theme directory, or does it stay in the directory that contains WP-content? Does it go in the twentytwelve folder?

thanks!

Everything can stay where it is… Just that new child theme folder in the themes folder.

Interesting site you have… I see you spent some time in the Bay Area (that’s where I am and was an undergrad at that same West Coast school :)! )

thank you — Stanford is a great place, glad you spent time there also!

Sorry to bother you again! The “preview post” function is not working when I try to preview one of my blog posts. It takes me to a page that says “page not found.” Could this be a plugin issue?

Thanks!

Yeah, possible. Though also try resetting your permalinks – change them to default and then back to what you have. And make sure you’ve cleared your browser cache.

Thanks and hi again. I tried changing permalinks to default and then back to my new mode (date/time/postname). And I cleared the browser cache. But post preview is still not working. Any suggestions? I have looked pretty exhaustively through prior WordPress forum strings on this issue but to no avail. The one thing that might be an issue, assuming it is not a plugin issue again, is that my web domain and my server domain are different, and there may be a redirect issue — one of the prior forum strings referred to an issue and solution along these lines. But perhaps there is a different solution?

Thanks much for any leads.

Just to add a little more detail:

Here is what the page says when I try to preview a post. A new page opens with the tab “Page not found,” and this is what appears in the website below:

“This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?

It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.”

The rest of the website appears on the page.

I did check the .htaccess file for the rewrite code for permalinks and it was correct.

Thanks.