Unable to change ANYTHING on Frontpage

  • I am using the Cutline Theme for my site https://www.chanlegacy.com
    I chose to display a static page(postslug is “welcome” and not “home”) for my frontpage instead of latest posts.
    I also tweaked 1 line in the archives.php and search.php template, from “php the_excerpts” to “php the_contents” in order for simpleviewer gallery to display my pictures when I search for posts via archives or categories or calender.

    After I done all that, I had the following problems.

    1. search tool not working
    – i put in a keyword, for example “contest” and hit enter, it runs for a while and when it is done, the page displayed is still my static frontpage. but the url is now https://www.chanlegacy.com/?s=contest

    2. categories search not working
    – e.g. i choose “rugby”, instead of displaying results, it displays AGAIN, my static frontpage, but url reads https://www.chanlegacy.com/?cat=75

    **but archives, calender and latests posts are working fine**

    What I had tried to do to rectify problem (but did not work)

    a. login/logout/clear cache/reload/delete bookmarks countless times.
    b. DELETED the page which I had chosen to be my static frontpage. (but funnily, the frontpage still displays that “ghost” page, which its title is Welcome to ChanLegacy.com)
    c. deleted theme and reinstalled it again.
    d. went to options – reading and change from displaying static page to display latests posts (but it is STILL displaying static page)
    e. change the positions of widgets and the choices in the horizontal menu bar in the header.php (results? – all the other pages, posts etc ARE reflecting my changes. ONLY the silly frontpage is still showing the old format and a deleted static page!)

    I have no idea what to do next, so I do hope any one of you here can be so sweet to help.

    Tks a billion in advance.

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  • I also tweaked 1 line in the archives.php and search.php template, from “php the_excerpts” to “php the_contents” in order for simpleviewer gallery to display my pictures when I search for posts via archives or categories or calender.

    In all of your changes back, have you also put this back to the original – as it appears that this is where your problem started – or am I incorrect in this assumption?

    Thread Starter bonitapang

    (@bonitapang)

    I did change back, but it didn’t help. The problems still exists but now MORE problems arose.

    When I now search for posts via archives or calender, the results will be displayed but not my photo gallery, instead the below error message will show. But if i click on the title of the post or read more link, bringing me to the post page, the gallery will display my photos. After checking with simpleviewer side, they were the one who adviced me to change from “excerpt” to “content” and solved my problem.

    SimpleViewer requires Macromedia Flash. Get Macromedia Flash.

    This is a WPSimpleViewerGallery

    var fo = new SWFObject(”https://www.chanlegacy.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-simpleviewer/viewer.swf”, “viewer”, “500″, “500″, “7″, “#FFFFFF”);
    fo.addVariable(”preloaderColor”, “0xffffff”);
    fo.addVariable(”xmlDataPath”, “https://www.chanlegacy.com/wp-content/photos/20070708a/gallery.xml”);
    fo.write(”fc_id_348″);

    Thread Starter bonitapang

    (@bonitapang)

    I finally know what was the problem!

    I opened my webpage using a HTML editor, just to change what is showing between the <title></title> tags. I saved it as index.html and uploaded via FTP.

    I reinstalled wordpress and did the above again and the same problem resurfaced. So this time, i just deleted the index.html file and everything is alright.

    Question is I still really want to edit what is showing between the <title></title> tags, and also one of the sidebar menu, from “blogroll” to just “links”. I can’t find any option to edit in wordpress.

    Can anyone advice me how to do it? If I should still using html editor, what should i save and upload the file as? php? or what?

    tks!

    bonitapang

    If you would like to email me at jamesict at gmail I will give you a hand.

    It’s all easy – you are just looking at it the wrong way.

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