cydward

That’s great, Michael!

I’ve tried to get it not to create a listener if the taxonomy doesn’t have any posts (since getElementById throws a javascript error for the taxonomy that is null), but was unable to do it. I can’t even figure out where the global field is being set. sheesh)

For now, I’ll just have to not create a widget in the sidebar until I know there are posts in it. So I add it, and if I just get a title, then I remove it.

I’m really looking forward to having it not even spit out a title in the sidebar unless the taxonomy is actually populated with posts. I’m thinking that could all happen in one step, sort of? So you would still be able to create the widget in the sidebar, but if a taxonomy had no posts, it wouldn’t create output or a listener. And then later, when posts got added to that one, it would print the title and the list, and create the listener.

Am I asking too much? I certainly haven’t been able to do it, but I’m really new at both php and javascript.

I appreciate all you’re doing!
Cyd

I’d like to add my vote to not show the list when there are no posts currently using that taxonomy.

I have a number of them that I’ve created for my client’s future possible use, but until she adds something that uses them, just a title shows up, which can be confusing. I could choose not to show the title, but I think it’s kind of important to include that when there actually are things in the dropdown (it’s not always obvious).

It’s a wonderful plugin and just what I needed. I use it in combination with Custom Post Type List Widget (which shows a list of custom post types).

Thanks for your help,
Cyd

Okay, I got crazy in the database, trying to fix this, with no idea what I was doing. However, I deleted a few things that said nav_menu_item that had no title. This allowed me to at least click the “menu” admin button. I got a very ugly screen with the word “Collections” at the top. Searched the database again and found one record called collections. I deleted that one, (along with a duplicate custom menu under widgets), and voila!, I am back in business.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that it happened after the upgrade. It probably reread some stuff that had been bypassed and hiccuped. I am now officially scary in databases.

Thanks for your help.

Yes, thank you, govpatel.

I tried Thematic and Twenty-Ten. Same error. And only on the menus admin page. I can access all of the other admin areas without error. Even my widgets (that have custom menus in them) are working fine, as is the blog. But everytime I click “Menus” on the left, I get the same error on line 433 (something about utf-8).

I’m using PHP5, I disabled all plugins except Akismet, but nothing’s working. I simply cannot get to my menu management on the admin screen.

Thanks for all the help, everyone.

I ran a check database and it said everything was fine. But since I’d exhausted everything else, including the fine suggestions here, and was getting dizzy from reading through all the code, I went ahead and ran a repair database and voila! – I can once again login. Who knows how it happened, but since it’s fixed, my mood has been greatly elevated. (Of course, it might be the Thai food I just had.)

Hopefully, if anyone else gets stuck in a similar situation, this thread might help them a little.

Thanks again,
Cyd

Say, Clayton, how could you see that there’s no index.php in my wpsystem directory?

Clayton:

I don’t have an index.php in any of my other sites’ wordpress directories and they’re still working. I even have a copy of this whole site on my test server (no index.php in the wpsystem folder there, either) and I can login there just fine.

Since I run everything from the top directory (www.erinhydequilts.com), that’s where the index.php is that’s doing the work.

I did, of course, try putting one back in with the same settings as the mother directory, but it didn’t help, so I took it back out to match the installation on the test server.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks for the help, t-p and webjunk,

tp:

I tried removing/naming .htaccess. No help. I still get a 404 not found error, but this time from Bluehost. When the original .htaccess was there, the 404 error was a page in the site, with the theme intact. When I remove the .htaccess, I just get a vanilla 404 error.

I can’t switch themes, since I can’t login to the admin area. I don’t even get a login screen. I just get 404 not found (even though I can get to the site itself). https://www.erinhydequilts.com/

I do have ftp access, as I mentioned in the original post (that’s how I changed .htaccess), but how do I change the theme there? Is that what you were suggesting?

webjunk:

I checked the siteurl in phpMyAdmin and it hasn’t changed. It correctly targets the subdirectory where I installed WordPress, which is what it was when it was working, as well.

When you say to check the Admin accounts, can you be more specific? The account with the name Admin is gone (I followed Sitepoints security recommendations and removed it after creating new adminstrative accounts with different names.) The three admin accounts are all showing up in the database, but I don’t know what else to look for.

Thanks again. I’m in real trouble here, so I’m really grateful for anyone’s help.
Cyd

Not only doesn’t it work, but it totally disables WordPress for me altogether. (WordPress 3.0) The only way I could get back into my site was to remove the Events Calendar plugin folder out in my file manager. I should think that if a plugin fails (which it did), it would just not install at all, but the new code was trying to run anyway. The error I received should not surprise you:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare is_rtl() (previously declared in C:\wamp\www\explore_ca\blog\wp-includes\locale.php:347) in C:\wamp\www\explore_ca\blog\wp-includes\locale.php on line 349

I was trying this plugin because it’s used as an example in a Lynda.com tutorial and I wanted to walk through the steps with the video.

Lastly, when I hit the bug tracker link under Details, it took me here:
bug tracker
which is one of those darn advertising sites that pops up windows all over my screen. Please update that link.

Okay, after deleting the entry and adding it again several times, I finally got it to work. No idea why, since nothing changed, but the extra characters are now gone. And as promised, I have contributed to the author. ??

Thanks anyway,
Cyd

Thanks. Do you know the name of a plugin that will do that? I’m using the setup that came with WordPress when I installed it, so the note I mentioned earlier is the default. That’s why I was confused.

I’m just curious – if Pages can’t be categorized, then why, on the Write Page tab, does it say at the bottom:

Filed under: Uncategorized a€?? @ 10:53 am

That’s where I got the impression I could categorize them.