Grafiksman

Steve, thanks for the information. I’m on another deadline but will get back to this by weeks end and let you know. I’m not sure what you mean by “seemed to have solved the problem” as nothing is solved as far as I can see. I’ll report back, but thanks again for your help, and I will definitely mark it solved when it’s done.

Steven, apologies for delay responding. I have not resolved. I’ve been out sick and have not had a chance to look at this until now.

I updated both the Home and Page Templates to add the custom header and footer in. Both look like this in the editor:
Page Template

I created a custom page with content (that I think is supposed to show up between the header and footer) that looks like this in the editor:
Custom Page (editor view)

When I preview, it loads the header and footer nicely, but no content in between. Maybe I don’t understand how the “Default template” works? Very confused…

I very much appreciate your helping me out with this.

Steve

• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Grafiksman.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 6 months ago by Grafiksman.

Thanks Peter. Super helpful! Never thought of that. Worked like a charm!

Steve

Hoang, I don’t speak Vietnamese, so not sure what you are trying to tell me.

Hi Lyle,

Thanks for taking the time. Sorry my post was so long. Tried to give full information, but maybe it was more than necessary.

First, to be clear, I had no problems bringing the migrated local site homepage up or getting into the Dashboard once I deleted the imported .htaccess file. Problem is that no links work, Settings/Permalinks throws an error table at the top of the page, and I’m unable to load plugins through Dashboard (either directly or by importing .zip).

I moved the site by zipping the remote site files and copying/unzipping to local directory. Created a WAMP/Apache alias pointing to that directory.

I exported the remote DB then created a same-name DB on localhost myPHPadmin, and imported the DB data. Here’s where I may have gone wrong: Then I used the following query to replace remote URLs with localhost URLS:

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = replace(option_value, ‘https://www.startguides.net’, ‘https://localhost/startguides’) WHERE option_name = ‘home’ OR option_name = ‘siteurl’;
UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content, ‘https://www.startguides.net’, ‘https://localhost/startguides’);
UPDATE wp_postmeta SET meta_value = replace(meta_value,’https://www.startguides.net’, ‘https://localhost/startguides’);

Site wouldn’t load, but then I deleted .htaccess (which was imported from remote), and I got the home page to load, and was able to access the admin Dashboard, but nothing else.

I installed the Better Search Replace plugin by copying it to the local plugins directory directly, but I’m not sure what to do with it, since I already used the direct DB query above to update URLs. Again, the site is not in the root (startguides.net), but in it’s own subdirectory (startguides.net/sgnet_wp), so I’m not sure I did the query correctly above. What to do?

Thanks again for helping.

Steve

Thanks, but I’m not sure what you mean. How do I do that?

I’m eager to help. I run a local Wampserver, and just did a fresh installation of WP4. Ready to test any time. Caveat is that I’ve not been using Edge Animate long and only have a couple of animations. One from the old version which worked with the existing plugin, and one that was published with the new version which doesn’t (which prompted me to join this thread). Not sure what the “issue queue” is but am happy to be a part of it. Let me know what to do.

Steve

PS – I’m not a programmer, and am just now becoming aware of what “GitHub” is but hopefully I can be of some use anyway.

Will,

First of all, great plugin. I’m having the same problem. I’m using a child theme based on Vantage. I’ve narrowed it down to the fact that I’m using a custom page template which is basically a blank page. I know this is true because when I activate the parent (which places it on a normal page), it works. Not being a programmer, I don’t know what in the blank page template (which I have to have for this) is breaking it. I didn’t (couldn’t) write this–I think I got the code off a web page somewhere. Can you have a look?

Below is the code for the page template.

Thanks a lot.
Steve (a past donor ??

<?php
/**
Template Name: Survey Template

*/
?>
<html>
<head>
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
<style type=”text/css”>
</style>

<title><?php wp_title( ‘|’, true, ‘right’ ); bloginfo(‘name’); ?></title>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>

<body>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
<div id=”container”>
<div id=”content” role=”main”>
<div id=”page-content”>
<?php the_content(); endwhile; ?>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Okay, thanks.

All this is way over my head, so I will have to wait for the final version.

Timm, I posted another thread regarding strange install directory anomolies. Wondering if I should have posted it here, in case it’s relevant… Just in case:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/edge-suite-install-path-weirdness?replies=1

Timm, thanks for the effort. It’s a great plugin. Really frustrating when “upgrades” break stuff. I too have a job that needs to get out the door. I’d love to donate to help you fix it, but I don’t see a donation pathway on your plugin page. Hopefully it can be fixed easily, as you say. I’ll be lost without it!

Steve

Will,

This is really helpful. I want to go with the first option (disabling the plugin’s style.css and replacing it in my child theme’s css). This works great when the form is placed in a normal page template. However, I’m trying to create a page template that displays no header and no footer, just the form with no branding, to use as an HTML overly in an Adobe DPS app. Can’t get that to work so far, since I’m in over my head programming-wise. That’s not your problem, however, and I’m not sure it can even be done.

Thanks again,
Steve

PS – Donation sent.

Will,

So sorry for marking unresolved. I wanted to make sure you saw this.

I discovered that the style.css file in the plugin directory seems to control the styling I want to change. However, I have to make the changes in that file for anything to take effect, which is not optimal, as you know, since any subsequent updates to the plugin will erase my changes. Is there a way to tell it to load the style.css from my child theme directory for this form? All other theme and plugin modifications I’ve done with this child theme style.css automatically override any associated styling elsewhere.

Perhaps I’m asking too much, or just don’t have enough experience. Yours is the one survey plugin that does what I need to do best. I do hope there’s a way to solve this customization bit.

Thanks once again.
Steve

Will,

So sorry for marking unresolved. I wanted to make sure you saw this.

I discovered that the style.css file in the plugin directory will control the styling I want to change. However, I have to make the changes in that file for anything to take effect, which is not optimal, as you know, since any subsequent updates to the plugin will erase my changes. It there a way to tell it to load the style.css from my child theme directory for this form? All other theme and plugin modifications I’ve done with this child theme style.css, and they always override any associated styling elsewhere.

Perhaps I’m asking too much, or just don’t have enough experience. Yours is the one survey plugin that does what I need to do best. I do hope there’s a way to solve this customization bit.

Thanks once again.
Steve

Hi Will,

I really appreciate your response. I’m a graphic designer, with just enough CSS/HTML knowledge to be dangerous, so much of what you is way over my head.

I tried turning off the CSS with new option to do so, but the appearance of the output didn’t change. When you turn off this feature, some basic styling is left on, I guess, but I can’t find where it is. Any further help you can provide, I would be grateful.

Thanks,
Steve