Bob Cristello

According to the hierarchy document, front-page.php is supposed to take priority over home.php and index.php

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/#front-page-display

Do you have a cache plugin in place? You may be looking at cached content. You might also look at your site from an incognito window to make sure you are not looking at browser cached content.

Just suggestions, not really sure why your front-page.php does not take precedence in this scenario.

You might want to look at my response to your original post 21 hours ago here.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/website-changes-using-css/#post-9351643

Typically there is no need for you to open multiple threads on the same topic, but I am not a moderator.

Any way you slice this…the “more complicated fussing around” bit is going to exist no matter how you want to approach this.

1. (ACF = Advanced Custom Fields Plugin)

You can use ACF and create a download field on your post template and then code a button on the actual template to read the ACF custom field.

2. Custom PHP Code
You can create your own custom fields in your theme or write a plugin if you are familiar with PHP to accomplish the very same thing you could do with ACF above. usually people find using a plugin much easier than writing code when starting out.

3. You could get past the “more complicated fussing around” part of the Easy Media Download Plugin since you are already somewhat familiar with it.

4. You could hire a developer to do the work for you

Remember, the only reason why it is complex to you is that this is all new to you. I am sure you didn’t ride a bike the first time you jumped on one. Have confidence and faith and ability to learn and fail a few times, there is no penalty for failure if you are learning from it.

I would suggest you take a complete backup of your site before you start anything so you can easily roll back to a good version of your website if you totally screw everything up – which by the way we have all done more than once.

Good luck in your pursuit.

First off, CSS is an extremely flexible language as well as being incredibly powerful.

Second, there is nothing that you are asking that would be impossible, the devil is always in the details.

As for item 3, you are probably looking at learning about @media queries to display information differently based on the size of the screen.

Most people who do CSS, only need access to to the pages you want them to review and they INSPECT them using their browser tools.

If you provide a link to the existing site and the specific pages you are looking to get input on, people will eventually start pitching in.

You may not have the correct value in the wp_options table for the siteurl and home directory. You can see this through phpmyadmin on your hosting account, since most companies have this user interface for your database.

If you don’t have access to something like phpmyadmin you can set these settings in your wp-config.php file manually.

define('WP_HOME','https://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://example.com');

Reference Source: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL

You either need to create a templated page in your theme that can be populated with the information you need in order for the onclick event to work effectively or you are going to need to use something like visual composer that has a RAW HTML component that will allow you to drop code onto a page from inside of a WordPress page or post.

You can download your images and re-upload them to the same location with the same filename and they will work correctly.

I do not condone this or suggest that you do this, but what I stated above is accurate.

Many people would prefer that you use a plugin that would rebuild all of your thumbnails in an optimized fashion, rather than do what you are proposing.

I would suggest that you do an entire site backup before even attempting this at all, since the risk factor is high. That way you can easily rollback to where your site is now prior to attempting any image optimization.

I would caution you that ALL media files are uploaded into the media directories. If you site has PDFs, CSVs or Videos that have been uploaded, this could have disaster written all over it.

Please consider this carefully, prior to taking this action.

You would be adding a template page to a pre-coded theme on your website. The answer is yes, you can add template files that only affect specific sections of your site and have no impact on the pages/posts already on your site.

You probably want to become familiar with the information in this link before beginning.

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/themes/basics/template-hierarchy/

Also, make a complete backup of your site before you begin any work in case you need to roll back to the original condition. You honestly never know how much what you do will impact other areas and it is best to be safe than sorry.

Is your WordPress installation asking you to provide FTP credentials prior to installing any plugin?

There are many reasons why this connection fails and it is a fairly common problem. Are you on a hosting company setup or is this a configuration you have set up on a local box acting as a server? If this is a hosting company, have you tried contacting your hosting company for support?

As a plan B alternative, you can always install plugins manually.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Managing_Plugins#Manual_Plugin_Installation

Not sure exactly what you are attempting to do here, but your height is set to 0. Pretty sure anything with a height of 0 is going to be invisible. I do believe if you set your height to a higher value, your text links will probably come back. Most likely you are not going to be able to solve this with CSS alone and are going to have to partially recode the PREV/NEXT links themselves.

I am just guessing though.

example.com/player/article-title should be fine for SEO setup, just make sure you hit your target keyword phrase in the first 3-5 words of the article title.

First, the delete option is not available until you actually deactivate a plugin. Not sure if you have already done that or not. The add new being a missing sub-menu is troubling as it should be there. Do you have the add new option at the top of the plugin page or is that missing as well?

Also, are you logged in as an administrator and have you, or someone else, used some sort of permissions plugin to manually set permissions for different user levels? That could cause you issues if set up incorrectly.

What version of WordPress are you running? Have you upgraded recently? These are the first questions I would try to answer in troubleshooting this issue. Without having actual access to the site, I can only suggest a few things to look at.

Not to beat a dead horse, but I probably would have taken a complete backup of his site to start with and build the development site with the WooCommerce data already inside of it. Now you are probably looking at using a tool to export the WooCommerce data and another tool to import it like WPAllImport. The same company that makes WPAllImport does make an Export Module. You are also probably looking to get their addon that migrates users, since you don’t want to lose customer data that your client has gathered already.

Maybe someone else has a better suggestion.

Your Site Title and Site Description are set to display:none; and I can’t see them on your site. I am not sure what the issue is, it looks like you have accomplished what you set out to do.

BBPress has a huge community support forum at https://bbpress.org/forums/ and you are probably better off getting answers there. Someone might know the answer to your question here, but since people there are working with it every day you are more likely to get a faster answer there.