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ok… feeling dumb.
I didn’t read your first reply carefully. I thought you were saying to delete and recreate my current active blog page.
Now i see you said to “delete permanently” from the Trash folder. Duh!
I found to weird blog pages that I deleted and was able to then rename the current one to “blog”.
Thanks for your help and patience!

doesn’t look like that worked either. I’ve had it work before….
hmmmm….

ok… didn’t know for sure what ‘backticks’ were but just used the symbol it looked like.. I’ll try quotes….

“[vc_row fullwidth=”false” attached=”false” padding=”0″ visibility=”” animation=””][vc_column border_color=”” visibility=”” width=”1/1″][mk_blog style=”classic” column=”3″ thumbnail_align=”left” magazine_strcutre=”1″ image_size=”crop” grid_image_height=”350″ image_quality=”1″ count=”10″ offset=”0″ transparent_border=”false” disable_meta=”true” disable_lightbox=”true” disable_comments_share=”true” full_content=”false” excerpt_length=”200″ pagination=”true” pagination_style=”1″ order=”DESC” orderby=”date” item_id=”1440199670-55d7b3f64f273″][/vc_column][/vc_row]”

well i thought i put “backticks” on the code but didn’t show up right. Did i do that wrong? I used ` mark in upper left of keyboard.

So if i delete the old blog PAGE, the blog POSTS should still be “safe” and appear once i create the new blog page… right?
and i could copy what is on the current blog PAGE and just past back on the newly created blog page? BC now there is only some code on the blog page and i wouldn’t know how to recreate it. I’m assuming nothing in this code is causing the problem so i will just c/p it on new page then.

[vc_row fullwidth="false" attached="false" padding="0" visibility="" animation=""][vc_column border_color="" visibility="" width="1/1"][mk_blog style="classic" column="3" thumbnail_align="left" magazine_strcutre="1" image_size="crop" grid_image_height="350" image_quality="1" count="10" offset="0" transparent_border="false" disable_meta="true" disable_lightbox="true" disable_comments_share="true" full_content="false" excerpt_length="200" pagination="true" pagination_style="1" order="DESC" orderby="date" item_id="1440199670-55d7b3f64f273"][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Thank you, Tara. I did see that post earlier but i guess I was just thinking it was a setting change. I don’t believe we did any code changes to make this change happen but maybe the update did something. I will try the code if there’s no way within the template to make the change.
Thanks ??
Ann

I’m using v. 3.7.5 so I need to look into that option.
All my videos are stored on a 3rd party application (sermon.tv) that provides a customizable media player with a playlist on the side. I use the iframe provided for each episode and i just need to find out how to place it properly on the pages.
Of course the videos are also stored on my hosting provider and i may be able to use your suggestion and eliminate the 3rd party site (and expense) but i feel i would need some type of playlist for viewers to choose other messages from that page so not sure i could set up something like that with the simple single video source option. I need to learn more about it.
I really appreciate your response and any other information you have on that.
Thank you…

Thank you so much for your help.
After writing this question, I realize I had the page for the iframe on the wrong template. I have a “Media Player” template that i would like to use because i have 3 difference “players” I will be using on 3 different pages and i would like to use the same template (format) for each one. So i changed the page to the proper template but it doesn’t pick up the content from the page (because there’s nothing there). The template code is:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Media Players
*/
?>
<?php get_header(); ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

and the page with the iframe on it is:

<center>
<h1>Sunday Morning Message</h1>
<div>
<iframe style="width: 908px; height: 400px;" src="https://gracecenterhouston.com/widget/player/6685" height="240" width="320" frameborder="0" align="middle"></iframe>
</div>
</center>

Since i will be creating two more pages with different iframe codes for use on this template, I need to know what i put between the “get header” and “get footer” on the template so it will call the proper page.
Right now i have the page displaying properly here:
https://gracechurchhouston.com/grace/
because i’ve put the iframe code directly into the template but that won’t work for the other 2 different player pages.
Also i will probably need to name the div so i can use CSS to make adjustments in the vertical spacing on the page?
Thank you!

Thank you, WPyogi… that worked. Fixed!

I’ve used the validator before… just checked it again and it’s not showing anything about the div tags. Only a few paragraph errors that i’m still working on. But thank you for replying. Hoping for more answers.

Thank you. I’ll try that and see if I can get it to work for me. I appreciate your help!

Thank you… that did work. Spacing looks much better. I changed the number of excerpts displayed to 4 to better fill the sidebar. I did notice the number of words in each excerpt is 30 and not 55. Maybe it was somehow changed from the default you mentioned but i don’t recall knowing how to do that but i’m happy with the length – it’s fine like this.
Thanks again for your great help!

It did work! I knew it was probably something simple i was missing… like omitting “px” for one thing. Thank you so much for your quick reply. I do appreciate your help very much, Richard.

Earlier corrected the <p> tag error on single.php and just found and corrected same error on Main Index Template (index.php) but still showing 3 errors in validator. Since the blog posts are displaying ok right now, I guess i will step away from this and go on with higher priorities.

I really want to tell you how much I appreciate you sticking with this for me and offering good advice. You are very patient and i hope i haven’t worn you out… may be needing more wisdom later.
Thanks again!

Yes… i do see clearly where in the source code the errors occur and what i need to do to correct them. My problem is locating which file in the WP structure contains those 3 specific errors since the line numbers don’t correspond. I’m not seeing where the specific post is found in the php files in the Editor. I’ve looked through each file and also in the post page itself but do not see the <p> tags. Is there a way to find the line in the code within WP files?
Thank you.