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Ahhhh. In that case, I’d highly suggest that you get a server for yourself if you are at the level of taking clients in. (for sake of easy access any time and looking professional in the eyes of your client.)

Godaddy
HostGator

Those are two of my favorites (price/support/quality is well balanced on these two)…if you are looking for a place -only- to display your sites in the manner that you are describing, then you can get a Domain for about 12 USD per year, and as low as like 5 USD per month for hosting content on the domain.

I would look over their FAQ’s and whatnot and take the time to choose which fits you best and make sure to research how to set it up properly.

If you want a free solution (although I advise against it, since this is for a client…) I found a list in this post I found in a google search

“0xh, 4ove, xBizHost, HostYous, XoomSite, Hosts101, 1FreeHosting, etc”

Best way: Do it locally (on your desktop).

Long story short, you set up a php server and a mysql server to run in the background on your computer, so that you can visit your development environment by using “localhost” in your browser.

Get:
XAMPP from Apache

To:
Setup a local wordpress environment

This way you don’t have to worry about having to constantly upload changes to a server. Just save -> go to the browser -> hit refresh.

Added bonus: This way you’re work is never interrupted if you lose internet.

If you need any clarification, lemme know. I’ll be checking back periodically.

Just a few clarification questions…

Are you still able to access the older instance of wordpress? Or did it overwrite it?

Do you have FTP access and know how to use it? If you do, you should be able to take the new theme from the “wp-content” directory of the new wordpress instance, and move it to the old wordpress instance.
Before messing with anything, if you FTP into the site, make sure to create a backup…that way you don’t accidentally delete the purchased theme.

@newllmultimedia
I apologize. I thought I’d be able to find something signifying if there was a limit or where the slides were being set from, but I cannot.

The site seems to be using nivo-slider, though. From my past experience, nivo slider has been in an options panel on the dashboard in the bottom left. Are you adding the slides there? or do you guys have nivo-slider set up in a different way than I am used to?

ahhh. may want to check out their support forums to see if anyone else is having an issue with this.

Personally I would not like the idea of users being defaulted to Author. Although you can set it up to where posts can’t be made unless you authorize it, that does kinda open a window for spam that you would need to find a way to close.

There may be a limit on how many slides the banner can take?
May possibly get a URL to the page that you have the banner displaying on, please, so that I may dig around in the “view source” panel in my browser?

Also check around in any options for the theme or plugin to see if there is a limit set anywhere.

Sammy, Have you tried a safe search and replace?
You mentioned that the images are pointing to

https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wordpress/wp-content/uploads

when they should be pointing to

https://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads

https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

There is a safe search and replace script that I always use when transferring sites and it would be perfect for this case, as well, since you need a solution without logging into the site.

BACKUP your database before continuing.

Basically you run the script (doesn’t have to be placed on the server as long as you can run it in the browser window).
It will ask for your database host url, login, pass, etc. (unless you put it on the server, DO NOT click “pre-populate credentials”)
Then it will ask you to select the tables in the database that you want to affect, blah blah, and then it will ask you what you want to search for and replace.

In this specific case I would search for:

rocktownhall.com/blogs/wordpress

And replace with:

rocktownhall.com/blogs

MAKE SURE to leave off the end slash, otherwise it will leave a few things out in the search and replace.

No, this is not something with wordpress. This sounds more like one of your plugins acting up.

What plugin did you recently install? or which plugins would require user interaction on that level?

I went ahead and tried again and still getting the same thing.
On this screen:
Screenshot Here

Absolutely nothing happens when i click the log in button.

On this screen, however, it does at least give me the error.
Screenshot Here
(As you can see in the screenshot, it is showing me the “wrong username or password)

As you mentioned in your message to ellp, go nab the FTP Login info so that you can look around in there (just be careful when you do this…and make a backup of the site, before changing anything). While you are getting that from him/her, I would ask them if they set up anything that would be causing this.

I apologize that I do not know exactly what is going on, though.

I apologize on the late response. missed the email notification of your reply.

If it is not working with the featured image, then chances are that the featured image is not what controls that icon on the homepage. Sift through the appearance tab and see if there is a theme options panel. If there is, I am betting there is a place to control which post belongs to which icon.

Although as for placement of the icons, the best I can tell is that it is hardcoded in that order (although I would not know for sure without seeing the theme)

Your 100% best bet would be to contact the developer of the theme if it is not easily done from the theme options panel.

Also (on a side and probably unrelated note) I would mention to the theme developer that they seem to have placed the wp_head() function in the wrong place in the source code. I went to view the source code to look into your problem and I was slightly confused to see so many scripts before the <html> tag even opened. It is supposed to be right before the </head> closing tag.

I apologize that I cannot be of more help, but again your best bet may be to get in touch with the theme developer

If you changed themes and it still did not go away, then it is probably plugin related.

Did you recently install or activate any social plugins? (specifically a social networking one)?

I’d try doing what you did with the theme, but this time with plugins. Go in and deactivate all plugins. If the ” ” />” goes away, then reactivate the plugins one-by-one, checking after each activation to see if the ” ” />” came back. If it comes back on one of the activations then you have found your culprit.
If you find the culprit plugin, then your best bet would be to check out their specific support forums as you are probably not the only person to have the problem.

Have you tried using a different fonts plugin?

Also what fonts plugin are you using?

May want to check out the support forums for the author of the theme in question.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/theme/evolve

Since they know their way around the theme a lot better — after all, they are the ones that built it ??

(Going to base this off of the same: “What we do”)

Are you talking about that green-background head icon on the homepage versus the picture of “Todd” on the right side of the screen after you visit the page?

have you tried logging in through the portal on that homepage? It seems that, that login prompt is active (as it did give me an “incorrect username/pass” error when I typed in some gibberish.

I did check the wp-login.php prompt and getting the same thing…you hit “login” and it does absolutely nothing.

Have you checked into things like the functions.php or wp-config.php to see if somebody manually locked out the wp-admin login screen? Some people do this to help keep users where they should be. (You would need FTP access for these)