Dave McHale

Np! Hope it helped.

At least you’ve narrowed it down to those two plugins conflicting! It sounds like a javascript issue… probably JQuery conflict? The woocommerce plugin may be attempting to load a version of JQuery that the slider isn’t compatible with.

There’s lots of ways to try and tackle the issue if that’s the case, but each install is different. Try reading here for a head start or some ideas – good luck! https://wpcommunity.com/03/solve-plugin-conflicts-jquery-wordpress-update-issues-like-rockstar/101043

“Cannot connect to server” via FileZilla sounds like it has nothing to do with WordPress. That’s an issue for your host should fix for you.

Are you actually connecting to the server at all? Can you connect, and browse folders, etc? Does it only give an error when you attempt to upload something? Or does it give that error immediately upon trying to open a connection to the server?

Sounds like you need to be looking in the Widgets admin area. Rather than remove the display via CSS, you want to actually stop showing that entirely in the footer. Chances are, if you go to https://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/widgets.php you will see a “Meta” widget in one of your widget areas. You’ll also see where the Categories area is defined, and more. Good luck!

PS: If you really want to ensure no comments areas make it into your “website, not a blog” site, I recommend the “Disable Comments” plugin or something like it. Install, configure, and forget about it ?? No worries about comment areas “accidentally” being presented to site visitors and no worrying about modifying your theme’s code https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/disable-comments/

I have seen WP lose its mind before similar to this – though typically the Dashboard area has been fine, it’s just “everything other than the homepage” on the frontend of the site. I have always been able to fix it by going to the Permalinks settings page in the admin area and just re-saving that page. Really wish I knew what caused the problem in the first place, or why this works but for some reason that does the trick. Hope that helps!

WP doesn’t store this by default, but you can add meta data to the login process if you want to track it moving forward… this link will let you do it by hand

https://micahwood.me/code-snippets/wordpress-user-last-login/

Or there are different plugins you can use for monitoring user activity. Unfortunately, since you DO have to add information to WP in order to enable user tracking, nothing will retroactively get you what you’re looking for :-/

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/simple-login-log/
https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/threewp-activity-monitor/

You should be able to add a new option to the array being passed to WP_Query to solve your problem…

Query by name… (this is actually the SLUG, not the name)
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query( array(‘category_name’=>’special_cat’,’posts_per_page’=>$mantra_options[‘mantra_frontpostscount’]) ); ?>

Or by ID…
<?php $the_query = new WP_Query( array(‘cat’=>1,’posts_per_page’=>$mantra_options[‘mantra_frontpostscount’]) ); ?>

Check out the Parameters section of the WP_Query page in the codex for more things you can use for filtering ?? Good luck! https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Parameters

Have you looked at the GA plugin by Yoast? I haven’t used this particular feature of the plugin that you’re looking for, but it reads like it MAY do the trick? Though I may be misunderstanding its description or your question ??

Under Custom Variables… “Tags: track all tags for each post, has its limits but might be useful.” *If* it allows for analytics based solely on the tags themselves, that should let you get at the metrics you’re looking for.

https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/google-analytics/

Using a theme to do this would be your best bet, like janet4now said above.

However, not knowing exactly what you want to do on your site, I’d recommend using the plugin repository to see if any of the plugin descriptions there indicate that they may do what you’re looking for. Good luck! https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search.php?q=featured+image

Tibor, thanks tons for that post. It worked like a dream. I was already using k2 rc4 so I was kind of at a loss. i had disabled all plugins and reverted my blog to default theme before going from 2.3.3 to 2.5, and like the original poster my frontend of the site was working fine but I was getting the fatal error when trying to get in through wp-admin.

Incidentally, i think I’m done with K2. It just isn’t providing me with enough positives to justify the problems I keep having while trying to also keep my site up with the WP upgrades. :-/