thumbnails and pics on front page disappeared

The links from the anchor text are also missing on the front page of the blog posts. If I click on the post, and it goes to the full post, the links are there. Likewise, if I change the theme, the links are there where they should be as well as the thumbnail images.

I did a lot of editing this morning and afternoon, after downloading the itek update. I changed a lot of images and links, etc, but it was all to my liking before I left for a couple hours.

Could you please provide a link to the site and more information on what was edited?

Sure. It’s https://www.PeteRosenLA.com

I was editing a few different things, as the site is new, and I didn’t change any code or anything. But mostly the images associated with the posts on the front page, especially the top sticky one that I edited to link to a specific page, and the second one, about “picking the right title.” Also the hyper links on the “ScreenwritingSpark” and “Right here” that are still present on the regular post page. But other hyper links from posts below also were lost, as well as images that I never touch, like in the Create Conflict post.

It also should be noted that sometime during the morning I was working, I noticed I had an update, which I clicked on. It happened to be the itek theme, which I did update. It said it went in fine, or at least I didn’t get any notice otherwise.

Also, it was perfect before I left. Looking exactly as I wanted and all the links worked. I tested them specifically. All of the images and links from the anchor texts were working beautifully. When I returned a couple hours later they were gone. That seemed strange. But I am 100% positive they were all there.

Thanks for your response.

One more thing. The last post on the bottom, the image remained and can be seen. The lone one. I never touched that one either, but some of the formatting was lost. The line at the top of the text “…dramatically, and dramatically” used to be a subheading (heading 2) underneath the image.

The last post on the bottom, the image remained and can be seen.

This image is coming from an external url i.e.: https://s95171296.onlinehome.us/Pete/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/1111ghost-writing.jpg which indicates that it is not a featured image inserted via the post edit screen.

Where are the that are not showing located and how are they attached to the post?

Also, it was perfect before I left. Looking exactly as I wanted and all the links worked.

Depending on what was edited and where the new image location is what you may have seen could have been a cached output of the original site before the edits were made.

I noticed that the pagination links at the end of the blog feed are also missing raising the question “have any of the theme’s files been edited in any way?”

Is the site being imported from another domain? If so, what was the permalink structure on the old domain? Can you check and see if there’s an .htaccess file in the root of your site?

Thanks, Zulfi, for your response. I appreciate the time. I will address each of your paragraphs.

First let me say that there are six posts total on that site, which is new, and was not exported from a different domain. Four of those posts, the bottom four, were never touched at all yesterday. Most have been there about one week, when it was first started, and the images attached to them have always been there. Yesterday, for the first time, they disappeared. Most were not featured images, they were simply put into the post via the add media, and insert image into post. But again, they were always there, every time I went to the site, which was dozens and dozens of times over the week, as I was learning how to set it up and add new pages.

So again, the bottom four posts were not edited at all yesterday when this problem arose. The images were there for the 4-5 hours or so that I was working on it, and there when I turned my computer off. I looked at the front page 100 times.

The above two paragraphs addresses your second one, about the cached output. I don’t know a lot about wordpress, I am just learning, but that seems impossible because it was always the same. There were six images attached to six posts the entire day and all day the day before and the one before that, and then they all disappeared at once, along with the links to pages within my site as well as off site.

If you click on any of the titles of the posts, obviously, it will take you to the images in the full post page, and you will see each of the images that used to be on the front page but are no longer there, as well as the hyper links.

I wouldn’t know how to edit a theme’s files, no.

And it wasn’t imported from another domain. Plus, as I said up top, if i switch it to another theme that has images on posts on the front page, they re-appear.

Thanks again for your time. I will see if i can find something that I edited on the top two that may have caused something to screw it up, but i don’t think so.

Does itek have some sort of revisions element like the pages and posts do so I can go back one full day and revert to that time I was using it and it was looking fine?

I just tried adding a complete new post. The post will show, and a featured image will show, but the hyperlinks will not show on the front page (only on the full post if you click on it and it takes you inside), nor will just an image from the “add media” way, the way it used to work. I still cannot figure it out at all.

Does itek have some sort of revisions element like the pages and posts do so I can go back one full day and revert to that time I was using it and it was looking fine?

No – no theme has that functionality built in.

You can however revert to a previous version of the theme which you can always get from here: https://www.ads-software.com/themes/itek/developers/

Can I ask why are the images and the theme’s stylesheet as well as the javascripts being loaded from https://s95171296.onlinehome.us/Pete/ instead of https://peterosenla.com/? Are you using domain mapping?

If you compare the two links you’ll see that on https://peterosenla.com/ the social icons are not loaded correctly but on https://s95171296.onlinehome.us/Pete/ they are. Also over on https://s95171296.onlinehome.us/Pete/ the image for “The First Ten Pages” is visible but not on https://peterosenla.com/

Have you tried to deactivate all plugins and then checking the site? I’m seeing some javascripts in the header which are not from the theme

Thank you for your patience.

My brother, who is the computer guy, just changed the name on the site from its original place, the onlinehome.us, to a new domain, the PeteRosenLA.com site. So now I guess I know what you were asking before. It was always from that onlinehome.us place (and I still see that show up, but it appears as PeteRosenLA)

That said, that was done 5-6 days ago, and the theme and images and links have always worked the way I wanted for those 5-6 days straight, working on it and adding stuff each day. So that is not something new.

I will try to deactivate the plugins and see.

I will also download the earlier version and see if that works.

Thanks again.

Okay, my brother arrived and said I didn’t answer one of your questions.

1. Yes, I do have a .htaccess file.
2. I can see it from FileZilla, and when I opened it, it was empty.
3. we did a little googling and found a single site wordpress suggested format… which was:

# 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

But nothing seemed to happen.

Is that correct or another option?

I also deleted the ITEK theme, and downloaded the earlier version, and everything came back up except the missing images and links on the front page posts.

I deleted the posts in question and made a new one but the same thing happened, no image or link access on front page.

OK lets see if we are both on the same page.

Initial site: https://s95171296.onlinehome.us/Pete/
New site: https://peterosenla.com/

Where is the WordPress install located? onlinehome.us/pete or peterosenla.com – or both?

My brother, who is the computer guy, just changed the name on the site from its original place, the onlinehome.us, to a new domain, the PeteRosenLA.com site.

How was this done? Via hosting account’s cPanel or in the WordPress install? If WordPress install then at which Domain?

The correct way to transfer a site from one domain to the other is to either download the site files from one and upload them to the new domain or install a fresh copy of WordPress on the new one and then export and import data from the old site.

.htaccess can easily be generated and populated with the correct information by going to Settings >> Permalinks and either set new permalink structure or simply save the current options for WordPress to create/write the data to the file.

If you copied/pasted the content from the old site and in to the new site then old links will remain intact in the posts and everything will link/called from that site – importing data will make sure that links for images are from the new site rather than the old one. Also make sure that all data including images were imported correctly.

Would I be correct in assuming that the edits you had to make is to remove the old site’s related links and add in the ones for the new domain?

It’s always been the same. There were no files transferred or copied or anything. It was always the same site hosting, my brother had the hosting already and it’s just onlinehome/Pete (1and1) is where it is hosted. It never moved. I just registered a domain name and the site as peterosenla.com and that is what shows up. Sorry if I confused you.

And again, the images, links and formatting worked after the domain name was added for a week straight.

I never “copied and pasted from the old site.”

He also said that it looks to him like a text wrapping issue, as all three of the problems I see happen in the first paragraph of the posts in question. The image disappeared, the links associated with text like “Click right here,” and the third one, which only happen in the bottom post that retains the image on the front page but the subheading, “…dramatically, and dramatically” is now at the top of the text and not under the pic.