CA-girl

As you can tell, I’m definitely a WP newby. I thought that getting Bluehost to stop updating my templates would fix the problem, but they updated it again last night, so all of my changes are lost. I use mostly stylesheet.css, page.php & the header/footers. I write the code in jEdit & copy it to the files via the WP dashboard.

Now I’ll have to figure out how to create a child theme, something I don’t need to take up your valuable time for, so I’ll hit the Codex and see what I can do. Thank you so much again, for all of your help, you’ve been a real lifeline.

Rebecca

Well, gentlemen, that did the trick. Turned out Bluehost was updating templates every night (rep couldn’t explain why). I turned off the auto-update.

Just two last questions, if I may. My old code doesn’t work on these new templates, is that common in updated templates? Finally, why don’t changes in the stylesheet template immediately affect the page? Nothing was working at 3 a.m., when I gave up, but today the changes are all there.

I can’t thank you enough for all of your help. I don’t know what I would have done without you, really, you’ve just been great.

Happy Halloween!
Rebecca

Thanks, Otto and Luke. The first thing I did was to ask my host, Bluehost, about it and they claimed they did nothing. But I will ask them again & be sure to turn off the auto updates in my cPanel. You’ve all be great.

R

Thank you so much, you’ve at least given me something to try. (BTW, I did modify the Elucidate templates directly through the WP dashboard. I code on jEdit, then copy.)

I apologize. When I hadn’t received a reply to a previous request after several weeks, I consulted the Codex:
“As most of the moderators are volunteers, we ask that if you need moderator help for any reason, you post your request in the forum and tag it with the term “modlook” – someone will come take a look.”

I installed WP from my host, Bluehost. I chose elucidate, and the only plugin I added was Easy Google Fonts. It worked fine for months as I developed the website. I edited many of the templates to get what she wanted. All along the way, no problems. Then on the night of 09/27/16, I sent her the link for the final site, but in the morning of 09/28, everything was reformatted. I thought this was just a glitch, so I reformatted the templates I’d changed, but the same thing happened the next night, and the next, and the next. She says she can’t go with a site constantly flipping to a completely different format. I don’t blame her. I’m at my wit’s end. Any help or documentation you could give me would be much appreciated. I’ve scoured the forums & come up with nothing similar. (BTW, Bluehost says they aren’t doing anything that could affect this.)

Thank you so much for your help,
Rebecca

So where *am* I supposed to post the bizarre fact that my templates change overnight? I edit them & the next day they’ve changed back? Please tell me where to ask that question, because I really have no idea how to fix this.

Thank you.

I have posted this question several times & never received a reply. My client will not accept a website that keeps reverting to a version she doesn’t want. So this is the last time I’m trying with WordPress. I’ve never asked for a modlook, but I’m at my wit’s end. If this doesn’t work, I’m going with Weebly. Completely fed up with WordPress. In the future, I’m charging people double if they want me to work with WP because it’s such a nightmare.

I had the same thing happen to me, but I did nothing. I’d tweaked the site one night & the next morning, EVERYTHING had changed–the menu, the header, the font, placement of items on the page, everything! How on earth did this happen?

I keep a backup of the pages on my computer, but my client wants to know why this happened & if I restore it will it just flop back to this again?

I’m using elucidate.

Thanks!

Did anyone ever respond to this? The same thing happened to me. All was fine at night, the next morning EVERYTHING was screwed up–menu, header, footer, text, everything.

I’ve tried php, html, and shtml files (with adjusted .htaccess to tell it the home page). If I have any of those files, wp-admin login goes to it; if I don’t, it gives me the “Directory has no index” message.

I’m simply trying to log into my dashboard, not trying to get my home page to appear. Why is this so difficult?

Same thing happens, just goes to my index.shtml. If I remove that, just gives me the same “Directory has no index file” error message.

I’m a web developer new to WP and I don’t understand the WP directory structure. Is the content supposed to be under the main WP directory, or under wp-content, or ???

Thanks for your help.