chaplaindoug

I am the host.

WPyogi:

We have multiple “jurisdictions,” each of which is its own ministry under our international ministry. So my thinking on multisite is that we have our main ministry site (www.goodnewsjail.org) and the “sub sites” would be for each of our jurisdictions:

tulare.goodnewsjail.org
omaha.goodnewsjail.org
.
.
.
saltlake.goodnewsjail.org

Each sub site would have a few folks who could create pages, edit pages, make posts, etc., all of which would comprise their “site.”

This would certainly eliminate the problem of all the “fanagling” I would have to do trying to accomplish this with a single site don’t you think?

It looks like WordPress MultiSite may be the solution to my “problem.” Can anyone comment on whether multisite might indeed be what I am after? Thanks.

https://mashable.com/2012/07/26/beginner-guide-wordpress-multisite/

In the PureVision theme the submenu width is adjusted per the article below:
https://dreamthemedesign.com/support-forums/discussion/comment/4861#Comment_4861

Resolved per above comment.

It appears that the site is now working? Here is the series of steps that I went back and did that finally ended with the home page working:

1. I prayed (not a joke)
2. I stopped the web site on IIS.
3. I recopied the WordPress 3.5 files OVER the existing files.
4. I started the web site back up.
5. I logged in as administrator (/wp-admin)
6. I updated all the plugins that said they needed updating.
7. I updated the Twenty-One Theme, even though I am not using it.
8. I went to the “home” administrator page. The page where it says “Welcome to WordPress.”
9. I pressed the “Customize Your Site” button to see what came up.
10. Ta-Dah! My home page (front page) came up.
11. After that I cleared the cache in IE9 and Firefox and tried again. The home page came up at https://www.goodnewsjail.org.

I did a lot of fanagling around for hours before saying, “Okay I will start from scratch.” Thus I went back and did the above 11 steps, ending in a working site (I hope).

I HATE upgrading, as it usually results in this high-anxiety, high-blood pressure night of doom. However, let me give credit where it is due. I am a Christian and took time out to pray and ask the Lord to lead me to a solution. Others prayed as well. On the heels of those prayers, things began to come together.

I worked 17 years as an aerospace engineer at Cape Canaveral and oversaw launch-critical systems that had to work during the count, else the mission was held. I had many times where perplexing problems came up, I was at a loss for answers (at my wit’s end), and I prayed for guidance. We never had to hold a launch for any of the issues that I prayed about. Thanks for letting me share. God bless.

I looked at the ReadMe file in the root directory. It said of manually updating (which is what I tried to do):

Updating Manually
1.Before you update anything, make sure you have backup copies of any files you may have modified such as index.php.
2.Delete your old WordPress files, saving ones you’ve modified.
3.Upload the new files.
4.Point your browser to /wp-admin/upgrade.php.

What does it mean by “Delete your old WordPress files”? I deleted NOTHING. I just copied the 3.5 files OVER the existing files. I had not modified index.php, but I do have a backup copy of every file before the update.

ALSO, I did not run /wp-admin/upgrade.php, unless that ran automatically. I did get prompted to update the database version after the manual copies. Is that what upgrade.php does?

HELP!

I do not have a pre-upgrade database copy to restore! Yes, I know I should have backed it up. But I have no tool to back it up. What do you think about the fact that it is only my home page that does not work?

By the way, I deactivated ALL my plugins and the home page still will not come up. It locks up both IE9 and Firefox. ALL the other pages work fine.

Would there be any problem if I restored my web site to its previous state before I copied in the updated 3.5 files? The MySQL database updated after I updated to WP 3.5. Would that cause an issue if I restored my web site file from version 3.4.x?

All of my pages display fine EXCEPT the home page. The home page hangs up in IE9 and Firefox. However, I can browse to any other of our many pages and they work fine.

I fear that if I change the theme and then change back, that I will lose my configuration on the current theme. Am I wrong, or is it safe to change to another theme to test and then change back to PureVision and see it the way it was?

All I find on my Windows Server 2008 R2 is a MySQL Server 5.1 Command Line Client (the old DOS command line box). So the two tabs of which you speak are not there. Any other ideas?

I created a work around. Instead of the defaullt page on web site startup being index.php, I made it index.htm which has the following code. It ensures that whichever way people browse to our site (www.goodnewsjail.org, goodnewsjail.org, anything.goodnewsjail.org) that index.php and its subsequently called pages and code think they came from https://www.goodnewsjail.org. Here is the code in its entirety for the index.htm page:

<body onload="location='https://www.goodnewsjail.org/index.php'">
</body>

I am using the PureVision theme. To accomplish excluding a category from the main blog page, do the following:

I was able to solve the problem by excluding the internal blog post category on our main blog page.

To exclude (from the main blog page) categories besides portfolio you would have to do it by hand.

Edit “\wp-content\themes\purevision\page-Blog” near line forty (40).

Change this line: $query_string = “cat=$portfolio_cats_with_minus&paged=$paged”;
to this: $query_string = “cat=-1,-2,-3,$portfolio_cats_with_minus&paged=$paged”;

where ‘-1,-2,-3’ are example categories (id’s) that you want to exclude.

I see the concept. BUT will this keep the posts from those categories from showing up on our main blog page?

Not suggesting hard. Just suggesting a clean-up. I get confused and frustrated when I try to follow a thread that has unconnected posts. Another issue is threads that never post a clear and concise final answer/reolution, but make the reader read through umpteen posts and try to figure out what the answer is, if there is one . . .