charles_i

I found my own answer:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-jetpack-subscription-widget-cant-find-css-class-or-ids-to-edit

That did it. Thanks!

Except that it works on my localhost setup – I see ‘about.html’ in Pages, but not on my server. There must be a difference, but I can’t find it.

Furthermore you can’t use a name like blog or WP will default to it’s own template and give weird results i.e. even when I renamed single.php single3.php it defaulted to that file and when I removed single3.php I discovered WP bypassed my blog.php file for its own template – as soon as I named the file something else it worked.

After a lot of experimentation naming and renaming php pages and seeing what loads I have determined that…

…the only way to assign a Page created in Pages to display posts is to turn Set Posts page OFF (- select -), otherwise it will use the Posts will use the hierarchy. Assigning a named page in Set Posts page will fall back to using index.php, page.php or single.php instead of a page created in Pages.

Answered one of my questions – remove bullet points does work in my style.css

list-style: none;

I’m trying to make my own theme. I’ve used the header code from the “Classic” theme and this in functions:

define(‘header_image’, ‘%s/images/header.jpg’);
define(‘header_width’, 576);
define(‘header_height’, 131);

function header_style() { ?>
<style type=”text/css”>
#wp_header {
background: url(<?php header_image(); ?>) 0 0 no-repeat;
height: <?php echo header_height; ?>px;
width: <?php echo header_width; ?>px;
}
</style>
<?php }
function header_style() { ?>
<style type=”text/css”>
#wp_header {
background: url(<?php header_image(); ?>) 0 0 no-repeat;
height: <?php echo header_height; ?>px;
width: <?php echo header_width; ?>px;
}
</style>
<?php }

Trying to make it as simple as I can.

Fixed it myself – went into the database and in wp_options I changed the siteurl from https://localhost/wordpress/index.html – back to https://localhost/wordpress/

Don’t ever do that!

Forgot to add, I tried removing the .htaccess file but I still get the same result – can’t figure out where it’s getting the name of my theme for this login page – it must have written it into WordPress somewhere.

OK thanks. So if index.php is the only page it will display every page, but if there is a page.php for all other pages, index.php will display the home page – like a regular (non-blog) website. So, is the page specified in Blog address (URL) (in Settings) what determines what will appear in index.php? You couldn’t just determine it with just the name “home” in Pages.

Found the problem. Permalinks was set to “default”.

Thanks for your help!

Thanks but when I’m in the “Edit Page” screen, I see the “autosave” info right underneath “Edit Page” – then the page title input – then the content window with the visual/html tabs for the page content – no permalinks displayed. Under that is “Custom Fields”

The page already exists – sorry I don’t see the permalink under the page names – where do I turn it on? In Settings it just has, “Default” “Day and Name” etc. No enable or disable option.

Also, why do I keep getting this when I go into the page I’ve created: “There is an autosave of this page that is more recent than the version below. View the autosave.” I haven’t changed anything.

Thanks it was a simple refresh problem.

“Put the default theme back and see if it starts working..” that did it. Thanks!