Chris

It’s the only widget in the sidebar. The text / photos / HTML that was there was condensed into ‘Arbitrary Text’ widget.

BTW, I feel a little stupid right now – turns out the widgets got moved to the ‘Inactive Widgets’. False alarm, by the looks of things. Thanks for your help all the same.

The sidebars still appeared in the Sidebars > All Sidebars menu, and are listed in the Widgets.

If it helps to decrypt the issue, the reason I deactivated all the plugins was because my menu had gotten to reach the limit of PHP variables. It runs close to the limit, and was randomly truncating the last few items off the menu… I solved the problem by changing the limit in php.ini / .htaccess, and by cutting a few things out of the menu…

Thanks – to be clear, I deactivated the plugin – it was never uninstalled…

I’ll give the database look-through a try ??

Hi Dragan,
I see an option to show the box in Listings, yes, and the theme is by Elegant Themes (so best practices are probably being followed).

The URL (sorry, forgot the first time!) is daytrippable.com (click on any place and scroll down to the ‘Latest Posts’.)

To rephrase, authors write listings, not posts. The ‘latest posts’ tab is pulling in posts, and I’m hoping it can pull in listings as well. How? ??

Honkytonky, can you copy and paste that code snippet, or link to the thread in question? I have the same problem but can’t find it.

Also, a quick note: use PHPMyAdmin to dump a list of the ID’s. If you have a lot of posts (I had 1,500+ accumulated from multiple blogs over five years), this is a messy list that will run consecutive numbers for long stretches of times (meaning ID inputs should be smaller apart to avoid timing out) or more sporadically (meaning ID inputs can be further apart to get the job faster).

When it’s exported as a CSV, the number you’re looking for is column A ??

I can confirm gnucco3’s code above works as intended – having completed a migration of my own, this has come in really handy.

As mentioned, you HAVE to edit the ID’s manually for every iteration. It may not be necessary, but do a force refresh to ensure you’re pulling the newest ID’s every time.

Thanks for sharing!

OK, problem solved. Not sure how it happened, but the following bit of code got deleted from the wp-config.php file:

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘YOUR DB NAME HERE’);

For anyone having the unrelated ‘error establishing a database connection’, check this before panicking ??

Had the same problem. Apparently, the Sampression lite theme uses ‘content-bg-rpt.gif’ – a 4px by 4px repeatable GIF to make up the background. It’s not a solid color.

If you want another background image, rename the file (it’s in /sampressions-lite/images), or replace it with another image using the same name. For more flexibility, open your style.css file in Appearance > Editor. Search for:

/*** Content ***/
#content-wrapper {
background:url(images/content-bg-rpt.gif) repeat;
padding:20px 0;
min-height:400px;

Note you can change the URL of the image you want here as well.
And change to:

/*** Content ***/
#content-wrapper {
background-color:#FFFFFF (or any color you want)
padding:20px 0;
min-height:400px;

Bear in mind the CSS for other elements is designed to look good with the greenish-gray color – white background looks good to me, though!

I have the same problem with Blaskan theme – it creates two thumbnails…
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