Dayna Leigh Cheser

Well, apparently you broke a floodgate or something. I just tried to respond to one of the comments and it worked!

So, thank you very much! I don’t know what you did, but I tried when the last comment came in (9:40 AM) and it wouldn’t process the reply.

I’m really happy it wasn’t anything major – what I’ve been through with this site so far …

Thanks again.

Dayna

Settings appear to be correct.
This is not the Pro edition of Weaver II
https://www.daynalcheser.com

Weaver II – this is a brand new installation. I’m having my ‘Grand Opening’ right now, and expect I will get a lot of comments … and I can’t respond to them. Not a good thing!!!

Finally got to try the deactivate the plugins – no change. Still can’t respond to comments.

Ah! The universal cure-all. It’s right up there with if you’ve got something strange happening on the computer, the universal cure all is to do a reboot (restart).

I will try it …

Thanks

There are a couple of plugins that go NUTS when you deactivate them – all sorts of big boxes at the top of the screen, usually in either pink/red, or at the very least, bright yellow/black, screeching at you in bold print about how XYZ Plugin has been deactivated and now needs to be reconfigured. The plugin screen lights up like a Christmas tree.

Thanks for the link – if I decide to go to Weaver II Pro, I will definitely check with them.

It’s all that I’ve been through #$%@ with this website – and I’m not even done with the content … NO MORE SURPRISES!! PLEASE!! LOL

Thanks, DLC

The only thing I’ve done to Weaver II is the custom menu (plus the plugins). Should I turn off the plugins before I upgrade (either/or)?

I’m thinking of upgrading to Weaver II Pro – will that be problematic?

Thanks, DLC

Um, ‘won’t touch’??

So, I can go and click the ‘upgrade’ button on both the WP program and the theme without worries of losing anything in the process … it will be seamless and harmless.

*deep shaky breath*

OK, if you’re sure …

Thanks, DLC

AH-HA!!!!

I just saw on the news … GoDaddy was hacked by ‘Anonymous’ this afternoon … THAT’S what happened to me!!!

OK, I can scratch that issue!!

I don’t know what you mean by “hacked any core scripts or your theme.”

As I said, I did a custom menu and I’ve done plugins including widgets and other added stuff.

OK, let’s go back to the original issue – (quote) … Please, to avoid nasty surprises, and a lot of rework, just exactly what will I lose if I do these upgrades? And, what can I do to avoid the inevitable nasty surprises? (end quote)

I’m not sure what’s going on here in regards to that bogus Yahoo search screen. Something is really strange … It seems like my computer burped or something and that bogus Yahoo screen showed up – and buggered up WP to the point where it was useless. Then, I noticed my resources were low, so I did a restart, and then had a lot of trouble getting Firefox back up … but, long story short … everything seems to be fine again, including WP, although the backup program (BackWPup) got buggered up, so I’ll have to reload that, only this time, I’ll set it for daily, rather than weekly.

I’m not a techie – I’m a 64 year old retiree. I do very well inside programs, but outside … as in code, or HTML, or delving into GoDaddy’s servers … scares me to death.

So we took a little detour and I have to figure that out somehow, so, as I said, let’s go back to the original issue – upgrades.

Thanks – DLC

Weaver II.

Only now I have a bigger problem.

That virus I told you about, with the bogus Yahoo search screen? It’s back so I’m dead in the water and can’t access a single thing. Now, this virus doesn’t affect the rest of my computer … only WP! When you look, you probably won’t see the Yahoo screen … my husband didn’t when he looked, but he was locked out of the program, just as I was.

PLEASE FIX IT!

https://www.daynalcheser.com

[No bumping. If it’s that urgent, consider hiring someone.]

Hi, and thanks for the quick response,

I’ve done a custom menu so I can have a static front page, plus extensive plugin work (50+ plugins, not all activated yet), including 15 widgets, in use now.

The problems I had early on were bad themes, a virtual parade of bad themes. They locked up (first one took 2 months for someone to respond on the Forums with the way to unlock it!), they were corrupt, they didn’t live up to the glorious descriptions, and the last one, before the one I have now, gave me a virus (a bogus Yahoo search screen took over WP).

Then, THIS theme sent me to the Forum, too, first for the custom menu, and later because the widgets weren’t showing up on the page.

So, you can see I’m really skittish about having MORE problems, especially where I’m not even officially in business yet, or even done loading content!

Thanks,

Again, thanks so much for your help – and your patience. I must seem a bit strange to you. On one hand, that Theme replacing process … then, I dive into GoDaddy’s servers like nothing. Let me tell you … the first time I dove into GoDaddy’s servers, I was TERRIFIED! The next time I talked with a CSR at GoDaddy, I told him that I’d been in their server (by then, several times, and that GoDaddy hadn’t crashed because I’d been there, so that was a crowning accomplishment for myself.
I have hours of original content to write (I’ll do it mostly in Word,, then cut-paste into WP – I wish WP’s editor was more like Word). My ‘scheduled’ Grand Opening (when I switch from my old .com blog to this one) is 9/24, so, I’ve got plenty of time to spiffy it up nice.
Anyway, thanks again for the help – and the patience. I appreciate it more than you know …
Have a good one.
Julie Jordan (real name – DLC is my pen name)

LOL LOL
I was going by the way you said stuff … one was ‘straightaway.’ That’s English … and English English is alive and well in India.
It makes absolutely no difference to me. I am a mish-mash myself. I’m half-English on both sides of my family, but I’m also Dutch on my father’s side, and Swedish on my mother’s side, with a smattering of other nationalities thrown in for good measure. I call myself a ‘good ol’ North American Mutt.’ Oh, I also have a little American Indian thrown in – 3 different northeastern tribes.
I know Europeans don’t understand the ‘North American Mutt’ thing. But, the USA is a world’s melting pot so any family that’s been here a while is largely ‘MUTT.’ LOL