Lisa

I’m adding to this question. Is there a way to just add a text string instead of a number to the captcha. The form field that reads Enter number 835: is not going to make sense for most web visitors. Or at least change the label. I’m using this on a page and not as a widget. Is it possible to add any parameters to the shortcode that’s not used directly on page (not widget)? If more than one parameter, are they separated by commas? Thx.

• This reply was modified 7 years, 1 month ago by Lisa.

May I piggyback on this same issue? In same theme, to get rid of the hamburger icon and change to word ‘menu’ I changed this in the header code

<a href="#" class="left-menu">MENU</a>
<a href="#"><i class="icon-search"></i></a>

It works in one install but not the other… staged site works: https://howlingwolfmedia.com/site6, client site does not : https://jamesgreenworks.com. In the latter, most pages other than home show the broken icon in both classes.
fonts exist in libraries on both installs.

Thx. I’ll try that solution!

@ipstenu… Let me try suggesting a different approach… my goal is to practice taking a backed up database (SQL format) and reimporting into a new site to play with DB backup. The MULTISITE network is at the root of my host account. Can I add an ADDITIONAL single site WP installation in perhaps a SUBDIRECTORY for practice without messing up the multisite that I use for development? Hopefully you’ll still respond to this thread? Thx.

So I understand a database can have more than one table. Perhaps I need to understand whether an install is tied to a particular database or particular TABLE. I’m confusing 3 things: 1) database 2)table 3)installation. I understand that a multisite network uses one installation but after that I’m kinda lost. I have been in the phpMyAdmin side of my multisite network so I’ve had exposure to the tables and data but never did any sort of recovery on any given installation or specific site. Once I get that down and practice working with it it will be a little easier. Thx.

So per your suggestion maybe the correct question to ask is: can I add a new single site install in addition to my multisite which is at root of my host since they’d share same IP address? Or to flip that… can I have more than one database in a multisite installation? Sorry… it’s kinda confusing… just getting multisite to work was feat of accomplishment and i’m paranoid about screwing that up.

Thx. So i have the following sites on my multisite:
howlingwolfmedia.com/site1, /site2, /site3 etc.
And I want to use a database from an entirely different server and replace the site 6 ONLY on my mutlisite network with that one database leaving all the other sites 1-5 of multisite IN TACT? Is that possible or am I being a total dunce? I’m not very comfortable in mysql but I have a tiny bit experience doing an sql dump from a different installment. However I’ve never done anything to the multisite which I’m concerned about screwing up.

Found a different theme.

If this was reposted (with answer) would @healthmus kindly post the link to the new discussion thread. Thx.

found this post: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/if-children-parent-title-if-not-no-title-1?replies=13 and added echo which works. Now need to fix syntax to account for desired html markup.

?php
$children = get_pages('child_of='.$post->ID);
if( count( $children ) != 0 ) { 

echo 'does NOT have children';

}
else { echo 'has children';}
?>

See the screen captures to be sure we’re talking about same thing. It seems they 2 mehtods are linked… i.e. if you change 1 part, the other screen shows the changes as well..
https://snag.gy/ahQL6.jpg -> choosing post name here… will change the path automatically on this screen as folows…
https://snag.gy/eQq7F.jpg … see /%postname%/

if i change the link from the other screen back to month and name… it auto updates the path on the other screen to /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/. That’s what i meant. I hope that’s clear.

Eventually the change did permeate to the other posts. It might have been a lag with cache. Additionally, I did have the correct setting in the site’s dashboard -> settings -> permalink -> POSTNAME selected. Looks like there are two methods to make this change. The one discussed earlier and this method. All work now. I’ll close out the ticket. Thx kindly.

Thanks @ipsenu. This worked on the file upload… i tested it in site4.
And the upload did go directly to the site directory:
https://howlingwolfmedia.com/site4/files/DripAlong1.jpg

Now to change the permalink structure to remove dates and months from post path, i changed ‘permalink structure’ in same dashboard page. from this /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to just /%postname%/

When i created a brand new post… the link did not work.

Not yet. It’s a styling issue; nothing to do with esc attr. I just replaced the link with a simple slug and it still doesn’t work. Additionally doesn’t work in body copy either when h tags are linked so it’s nothing to do with the php code etc.
p.s. I also took out the query_post filter and replaced with WP_query as query_post was not recommended by codex.

code using a link slug

<?php
// the query
$newsquery = new WP_Query( 'category_name=news' ); ?>

<?php if ( $newsquery->have_posts() ) : ?>

  <?php while ( $newsquery->have_posts() ) : $newsquery->the_post(); ?>
    <h2 class="news"><a href="#"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
    <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
  <?php endwhile; ?>

  <?php wp_reset_postdata(); ?>

<?php else:  ?>
  <p><?php _e( 'Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.' ); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>

I’ll close out ticket and futz with css more.

Just a standard news listing page of category id 14. i didn’t use custom post types.