Adam W. Warner

Hi Gil,

Hopefully I’m close…been battling illness and have gotten behind on more pressing projects. Will try for an update over the weekend.

Thanks for reporting this. Just a couple days ago we’ve discovered that there is an issue depending on how your theme writes the widget title html AND what header tag it is using (h3, h4, h5) etc.

The plugin currently only hides the h3 tag and I have a fix ready to submit to the plugin repository that will include the hiding of all header tag sizes…however, in testing, there is still the issue in how different themes write the html/css for the widgettitle and I’m hoping to include that in the update as well.

If I don’t get a solution for that within a few days, I’ll submit the other update on it’s own.

Can you link to your site so I can check your header tag size?

Well, it only took 9 months since my original post about this, but I’m happy to announce that I’ve made a plugin to solve this problem. It’s now available in the plugin repository.

You can learn all about it here.

If you find it useful, please blog about it or share on your preferred social network:)

Thanks for the update and very glad it was an easy fix for you:)

Don’t rule out a plugin conflict. The reason I say this is your description of color changes on the text.

Can you share a link to the page?

‘m not sure I understand you’re question completely, but here are a couple things to check.

Settings–>Writing. There you can choose the default post category.

Secondly, in your example url above…are all your categories main level or do you have subcategories?

I tried to load your feed and it wouldn’t load at all. I then tried Feed Validator and got a server timeout.
https://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fashiongeekette.com%2Ffeed

Hopefully it’s a host issue that will be resolved…

This is probably not the answer you’re looking for, but might be a way to test your category limits question with wp_list_categories and Exec-PHP…

Try activating the List Category Posts plugin here https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/list-category-posts/ and see if you get the same limits as you’re currently seeing.

You can see the list of parameters here: https://foro.picandocodigo.net/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=251

At least it might lead you to the next troubleshooting step?

@rishi,

I would use it for both website and blog. More work in the beginning, but you will only have to manage one installation moving forward and that will be easier.

“In this case the main page will be static but how can I customize static pages”

What do you mean when you say “customize”? A static page is just a normal WP page. I think what you’re after is a way to display all the content you have on this static page. My suggestion would be to look for a “magazine” or “news” style theme that allows for customization of a main page using widgets.

@holdam,

This is strange indeed. First thing to check is that you have an .htaccess file in the /blog/ directory (same place as your WP files). Just make sure it exists. If it does it may be helpful to post it here for others to check.

Second (or maybe first), make sure your host allows mod rewrite.

When I hit your url, that’s not what I see. I see a coming soon screen. Looks like you have a manually created index file in the root?

If so, your feed will not work until the WP index.php is the file that’s loaded.

Look at this file:
https://www.steelweaver.com/wp/wp-includes/js/thickbox/thickbox.css

Line 47

#TB_window {
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 4px 30px #000000;
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFFF;
    border: 1px solid #555555;
    color: #000000;
    display: none;
    left: 50%;
    position: fixed;
    text-align: left;
    top: 50%;
    z-index: 102;

If you add height: 550px; to that it seems to help.

Now, I’m not advocating that you edit this file directly because it will get overwritten the next time you upgrade WP.

NexGen makes use of this file I believe, but I also think you can choose to use Thickbox or not within the NextGen settings. try playing with those settings.

Not a solution, but one more clue at least;)

What theme are you using?

You could do this…

Write your posts and attach each one to it’s respective category. In a custom menu, you could link individual pages to individual category archive pages.

WordPress creates a category archive page for each category by default, so if you had 10 posts attached to the “video” category, you could link a page named “Videos” to the “video” category archive page. This page would only show the posts that are attached to the “video” category.

You could do this for each category.

How to find url for video category archive page? In a default install, it would look like this:
https://yourdomain.com/category/video

Put this link into a custom page menu for the page of “Video”.

Are you familiar with custom menus in WordPress? If not, you can use the “Page Links To” plugin.

Do not use GoDaddy for hosting. Take it from a long time WordPress user (since 2004).

GoDaddy is great for domain management, but hosting….ummm, no!