80grit

Just to add to my previous Post:
After creating a page and pasting in the shortcode, I gave this page the same Parent page as the other items in the Menu which are successfully linked.

Hey Bill,
For the life of me, I can’t explain how I could have successfully set-up the other menu items to link, but can’t replicate the steps when it comes to the Contact Us page. #%*@!!
Background: The other successfully linked Menu items all have the Link #Slug used and then added to the Menu.

To review my recent steps – attempted for the zillionth time. ??
1. Copy and pasted shortcode into newly created Page. Click Publish.
2. Went to Menus/Most Recent/Add Pages. Click Save. Result: No dice. Doesn’t work.
3. Then tried this: Went to Menus/Link Tab/ [Entered Slug and Link Text (for Menu Item)] / Added to Menu. Click Save. Result: No dice. Doesn’t work.

As Brando mumbled in Apocalypse Now, “The horror…the horror.”

Hey Bill,
I forgot to address your initial comment:
“The problem seems to be that the other menu items all refer to sections of the main page (by ID), but the contact form actually is on a different page. Is there a way for you to add the contact form to the same page?”

All I know is I began by placing the Contact Form in a Post, then a Page; then who knows what-the-hell else. At one point I thought that I could create a Page for the Contact Form and copy the slug, then Link that slug into the Menu, as I had done successfully with the other menu items – all purely by blind luck. ??

Thanks,

Bill,
Thanks so much for the reply.
All your feedback is new and fascinating, because I am absolutely lost.

When I performed an Inspect Element to Main Menu-2, UL, all the other menu items have common features, a logical path, including the href: The Contact item contents, however, are a monstrous mish-mash of multiple botched attempts to achieve a result.

Your other comment:
I link to the Menu plugin. If I did it wasn’t intentional. What is the Menu plugin?
Would that be part of the WordPress Theme we are using – Landy Theme? If so, that’s amazing that the Theme creators would still use it. The theme was purchased just one month ago.

BTW: Landy Support has been helpful on other fronts, and in fact corrected a css mistake within the Contact Form – field visibility. That said, they have been surprisingly deaf to repeated emails on this particular topic.

Given my comments and your insights, what would you recommend?

Thanks so much, Bill!

Topic resolved.

James,
Thanks for responding! I figured it out last night.
Two part solution for two part headache: I deactivated plugins, and I also imported database BEFORE logging into the WP login box.
See ya.

Hey popper!
BTW, the first error message is still there too. But, here is the longer error – a bug in the SQL parser.

Error
There is a chance that you may have found a bug in the SQL parser. Please examine your query closely, and check that the quotes are correct and not mis-matched. Other possible failure causes may be that you are uploading a file with binary outside of a quoted text area. You can also try your query on the MySQL command line interface. The MySQL server error output below, if there is any, may also help you in diagnosing the problem. If you still have problems or if the parser fails where the command line interface succeeds, please reduce your SQL query input to the single query that causes problems, and submit a bug report with the data chunk in the CUT section below:
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Thanks for your insight.

Hey bemdesign,
Update. Tried again without success.

I destroyed all tables within that database named after the one on the live server. I then imported a fresh one; made the changes to ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ again. At one point after completing this, I was presented with another 5-minute WordPress install.
This made me feel as if I was on the verge of a final breakthrough. Wrong.
I’m in the same place.

I activated all plugins, including ‘Velvet Blues..’, went to ‘Tools’ and clicked ‘Update URLs Now’. At at this point when I ‘Visit Site’ from the Dashboard I should see a complete backed up version of the live site on my localhost site, correct? Instead, I got the same Error message as in my last post to you.

Things are getting kind of foggy. I’ve tried so many things and headed down so many gopher holes. Going to take a break, head to the gym and come back to this tonight.
Jazz piano version of Charlie Brown’s, ‘Oh Christmas Tree’ is playing here in the Starbucks on the corner of Denman and Davie on a sunny, cold December afternoon in gorgeous Vancouver.

See ya,
Brad

Hey bemdesign,
I have successfully completed steps 3 and 4 (actually changed the siteurl and home options a few weeks ago. Changed them again recently to reflect the current path).
Also partially completed step 5 – downloaded and successfully activated ‘Velvet Blues Update URLs’. However, I got an error message when I went to ‘Tools’, ‘Update URLs Now’.
It reads as follows:

ERROR: Something may have gone wrong.
Your URLs have not been updated.
Results
0 Content Items (Posts, Pages, Custom Post Types, Revisions)
Why do the results show 0 URLs updated?
This happens if a URL is incorrect OR if it is not found in the content. Check your URLs and try again.

Think I am hung up on step 2 of your last exchange to me.
I didn’t delete tables first. (Sheepish grin) I essentially, imported the MySQL database into the one previously created with the same name as the live server’s database. I thought one would overwrite the other, if that makes sense. But you did warn me that I may have to delete the previously created tables. To delete tables do I simply check mark all the tables within a given database and then click ‘Empty’?

By the way, these are identical MySQL files; They were part of the backup I did a few weeks ago. Given that, it’s puzzling to the uninitiated that there would be a problem.

Hope you well and still feeling patient. ??
See ya,
Brad

Morning bemdesign
Got to head out the door to work in a few minutes. Here’s an update.

Worked on this for a few hours yesterday afternoon. I’ve made it through step 13. For some reason, it was nearly impossible to get through to the www.ads-software.com site yesterday to enter my post and to finally download migrate – late last night. Sheesh. Won’t be able to work on this till late tonight.

Couple side notes:
The person who designed this www.ads-software.com site a year ago didn’t include “plugins” and “appearances” in the Dashboard menu. Consequently, I don’t know how to accomplish your step 12 – migrate from the live site. Although, I did back-up the MySQL to my desktop a few weeks ago (the site hasn’t been active since the touring Broadway show finished it run, so nothing has changed on it).

How can I accomplish your step 12 without using migrate?

Thanks again for all your help. It’s appreciated more than you’ll know.
See ya,
Brad

Hi bemdesign (or other folk with insight),
I followed your steps 1 through 6 as instructed without problem.

I downloaded WP v.3.7.1
3.) created new database – kept it the same as the live server’s database.
4.) unzipped WP v.3.7.1 and placed it in applications folder’s htdocs folder, unchanged as ‘wordpress’.
5.) Filled out required info (database name same as live site), then ‘root’, ‘root’.
6.) Saved edited file as wp-config.php.

Then a glitch.
7.) MAMP was up and running. Opened browser, pointed it to ‘localhost:8888/wordpress’ and got a 404 Error.
Also tried ‘localhost:8888/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress’
and ‘localhost:8888/htdocs/wordpress’
All got the same 404 Error message.

One additional change I did make was in MAMP’s preferences. I updated the Document Root to reflect the current status: ‘Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress’. It was a different path prior to this change. After making this change, I stopped the MAMP servers then turned them on again.

This part of the process was never a issue before. I can’t see how updating the Document Root to its current status would bugger things up.

Ah, man! I’m so close to seeing the end. I’m like a pooch getting a whiff of biscuits and gravy.

Fellow brethren, insights please.
Thanks for helping me.
B

Hey bemdesign!
Gonna give this a shot hopefully later tonight or early tomorrow.

Just the prospect of a solution has got me Jacked!!
And you’ve got detail, precious DETAIL – all numerically laid out.

BEMDESIGN!….BEMDESIGN!…..BEMDESIGN!

Will update.
Grateful in Vancouver, Canada