Several Issues Getting Set Up

Sorry for late reply…I’m just starting my day here (late actually). Anyway, no need to apologize for anything ??

Let’s start with the blank pages. I looked at one of your links:
https://www.somethingcrunchy.co.za/index.php/sides-and-salads/

The index.php should not be in there, so when in your admin area, go to Settings >> Permalinks, and check to see what setting for your URL’s are. Set it to “Plain” first and see what happens. Then try “Post Name”.

The title is blue on hover. This is my fault, I just looked and it turns out I negelected to put in a setting for the hover colour for anyone that uses a dark background page colour. So I will do this on the next update. In the meantime, you can add this to your theme’s style.css file at the bottom of it:

.entry-title a:hover {
color: #cccccc;
}

The colour is HEX colour #cccccc (which is a light grey), but you can change it to your needs. To find a colour, you can use one of the other colour selectors in the customizer to find out what colour you want and then copy the HEX value. Or, just search on Google for HEX colours.

What specifically do you mean by make it less cluttered? What part would you like to be deleted? Are there any settings in the customizer’s tab “Blog Options” that let you turn off any the items you want to hide”?

This might relate to the next item….to split your post into the summary having a Read More, refer to this tutorial:

https://en.support.wordpress.com/more-tag/

For font menu weight (thickness), you need custom CSS for this. So because you are not adding custom CSS, install a plugin called “Simple Custom CSS”. Then add this to the custom stylesheet it creates:

.site-navigation li {
    font-weight: 700;
}

NOTE While we’re at it, the hover colour we talked about earlier, add that custom hover colour to this as well instead of the style.css I mentioned earlier.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by Shaped Pixels.

Hello again! Thank you so much for coming back to me about this and for all your help. I’m so sorry I haven’t been back until now – I’m creating this site in my spare time so I’m not always behind my PC. Okay! To pick up where we left off:

I followed your instructions per the permalink issue. Turns out I had Custom Structure selected. However, changing this to Plain or Post Name doesn’t seem to fix it :/ Still no recipes showing under the menu items etc.

When I say less cluttered, I’m referring to the text I’ve circled in red – the the text is all different sizes and I’d like to have just “Previous Article” and “Categories” – I’d take out “No Comments”, “Post a Comment” and “Logged in As” – seems a bit redundant with the comment box right below it all, heh.

As for the custom css stuff, I downloaded the plugin and both the hover text and the font weight are perfect now – thank you so much! The link for the Read More tag was also immensely helpful, really appreciate it!

Greetings,

For removal of the content you were referring to, lets start with the Tags and CAtegories. If you go to Blog Options in the customizer, look for the “Show Categories on Full Post” and the “Show Tags” settings. Uncheck each box to hide that part.

For the removal of the No Comments and/or comments count title, plus the Logged in As, we now need to add custom CSS:

.comments-number,
.comment-respond h4,
.logged-in-as {
display:none;
}

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by Shaped Pixels.

Awesome! Thanks a ton! I see it’s showing “Related” recipes below the social sharing icons now too – it wasn’t doing that before. Any idea how I can turn it off? (Sorry!)

Then the only other thing is the menu categories. Otherwise I’m almost 100% ready to go.

This theme does not have “Related” posts coded into it, so my guess is that you are using a plugin…perhaps Jetpack with it’s Related Posts feature?

Yup! It was Jetpack, my bad.

No worries. Is it safe to say this support topic is complete and ready for “Resolved”?

Almost – I just need to get my categories/menu items to load their respective recipes and the Home page to work.

still sounds like something is odd with your WordPress permalinks based on what you said earlier. What happens if you switch to a WP default theme like twenty sixteen or fifteen? IF you still have the same problem, then it’s something on the WordPress side.

Here is a screenshot of my permalinks – these were entirely untouched until I changed it from Custom Structure to Plain (which didn’t change anything) and then to Post Name as it is now. If I switch themes, I’m guessing I’ll need to back up everything I’ve done thus far and restore it afterwards…?

Again, my sincere apologies…I’m still learning my way around WordPress.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by altbinx.

Unfortunately your image link is a 404 error (not found). But you should be fine to switch themes and then back again as everything should go back to what settings you had. However, you have the option to use a backup plugin, such as UpDraft Plus. Generally it’s a good idea to keep regular backups anyway…especially if you upgrade plugins, themes, and even WordPress.

I have re-uploaded the screenshot for you. I’ll give another theme a whirl and let you know.

…okay, I tried the Twenty Fifteen theme and it’s doing precisely the same thing. The posts appear on the landing page and you can select the “read more option” but as soon as I click on Home or any of the other menu categories nothing shows. I must be missing a step somewhere.

My recommendation is to take this one issue to the WordPress support forums and also do a search to see what shows up; even try google search for “wordpress index.php in permalink”. Several results show up, like this example you might want to check out: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/how-do-i-remove-indexphp-from-my-permalinks/

WordPress documentation has a lot of info about permalinks, a bit overkill and might be confusing, but you can check out https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks as well.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 3 months ago by Shaped Pixels.

Alrighty, I’ll investigate this further. Thank you so much for helping me with this! Please feel free to mark this post as resolved. Appreciate it very much.