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I’ve found the problem — a plugin. When deactivated — everything works like normal.

When activated — the problem I described is there.

Problem solved, but too bad — this was a GREAT plugin from Pootle Press.

Hmmm — I just tried another WP site I’ve done using Thesis theme, different host, and it’s working beautifully.

This helps. But my other sites used to work just fine. Then suddenly began acting up.

I’ll keep checking.

I was hoping I could blame MY Mac — but the SAME strange problem on another computer, and it’s not a Mac.

I’m unable to edit anything on the Widgets and Menu page because the fields do not pop open for me to type. However — some fields DO open, such as within the actual menu itself. Those work, yet the ones in the left column, on the same page, do NOT.

I can’t fathom what is going on!

Great idea. I just switched from Canvas (the theme I’m using) to TwentyFourteen – and same problem.

I’ve noticed that some of the Dashboard buttons used to “pop out” more links when I hovered over them – such as hovering over “Appearance” would pop out a list of choices. This is not happening all of a sudden.

Yet — some buttons STILL do pop out!? So, the problem isn’t across the board.

I will go try on a different computer. But if it IS MY computer — what to do?

OK — off to dig up another computer . . .

P.S.

The issue is on any website I try to work on. Different sites, entirely different hosts and servers. Different plugins. None of the Dashboard functions (javascript, I’m guessing) work. I haven’t changed any of my browser settings. I use mostly Chrome and Firefox. I’m on a Mac. (my Mac has been acting up lately, freezing a lot — would this be related somehow??)

I spoke too soon.

The site is working fine: https://www.acmewormfarm.com

But now — I cannot login to the Dashboard!

I get to this page:
https://www.acmewormfarm.com/NEW/wp-admin

Enter my same old login that I’ve been entering a zillion times, and nothing happens. It doesn’t say my login is wrong, or any error message, it just presents me with the same two empty fields to enter my username and PW.

Do you think this is related to anything done recently (moving directories) or it’s an unrelated, weird, and pretty awful glitch?

HELP!

Problem fixed — I deleted the old index.html file from the ROOT directory, and now the index.php WP page is displaying. All is well.

Hello Esmi —- are you online?

I am changing over another WP site!

All the pages have switched over OK to the WP version — but the homepage is still the old HTML page. https://www.acmewormfarm.com

However, the interior pages work properly:
https://www.acmewormfarm.com/garden-gear/

Click on “home” and you land on the old HTML. I’ve done all the seven steps. I’ve checked the permalinks and all seems to be correct.

Even in the WP editor — if I edit the homepage, then click “view page” — I get the HTML homepage rather than the WP version.

I can’t see what else to do! Help! Thank you!

esmi —- I hope you’re around.

I have another site that I was trying to MOVE from its WordPress directory, into the “regular” URL.

The WordPress site used to be at: https://www.teachsoap.com/newsoap

I followed all the instructions to move it, so that it would appear at:

https://www.teachsoap.com

It seemed to go well until I tried to tweak the permalinks, and WP said it was unable to write to our htaccess file. (we host at https://www.pair.com) Since then, I’ve made our htaccess file (the one in the ROOT folder) writable, plus I’ve added the code that WP said it was unable to add to htaccess.

Presently:

The interior pages of the WP site work fine:
https://teachsoap.com/aloha-mp-soap/

BUT — if you click on “HOME” — it takes you to the old HTML version homepage.

I’ve been wrestling with this since yesterday. I hope you can suggest something. I’m at a loss what else to try. What would you do, in this situation? We’re so close — it’s all “good” except for the homepage.

So presently, the WP homepage at https://www.teachsoap.com/newsoap, no longer works since we did the URL changeover, and now the actual URL of https://www.teachsoap.com doesn’t work either because of some mysterious screw up on my part, no doubt.

Would showing you the code in the htaccess file be of any use?

Thank you!

Yes, I did follow the previous 7 steps, very carefully. Then went to the Permalink page, as instructed. All the permalink examples they offer still have the word NEW in them.

WAIT!! — I just looked at the settings>general page and noticed that the URL for the site is still listed with the word NEW. That’s odd. That was the first thing I did was to remove the word NEW and click “save” and then got the big ERROR message. Weird the NEW subdirectory was still in there?

All is well! Thank you so much!

I did look at the Permalinks page and can’t see what I can do. All the choices have the word “NEW” in them. There was one option to write your own custom permalink, which I did, but that didn’t get rid of the “NEW” in there either.

When you say “update your Permalink structure”, what exactly should I do, in my case?

Thanks so much — glad you’re online right now!!

I did it!

Everything is OK, except the interior pages still have the “NEW” in their URLs.

I looked at Permalinks in the settings > general, but didn’t see an option to eliminate the “NEW” being included in the link.

What am I missing here?

Here’s the actual site:
https://blairsrepair.com

Click on “about us” or “services” and you’ll see what I mean.
It still has https://blairsrepair.com/NEW/our-services/
when it ought to be https://blairsrepair.com/our-services/

Thanks! I was sweating bullets while it had the big ERROR message up there, but luckily it all came back. Phew.

Yikes, it all sounds quite intimidating. I was hoping it would be a matter of a few button clicks : )

For future reference, was there a better way we could have set this up? We wanted the old site to remain active while putting together the WordPress stuff, so that’s why we created the new folder and installed WordPress into that.

Is it possible to add this scroll code to the “Recent Posts” widget? We want to have all posts viewable, but obviously, this will eventually become long and cumbersome. A long list with a scroll bar would be the perfect solution. I’ve seen it done on other blogs (but they were not WordPress, don’t know if that makes any diff).

Thank you!

Ahhh haa — thank you all, this clears things up! Very, very helpful info. Thanks!