Odai Athamneh

Hi Lee,

This really looks like it’s being caused by a bad hook in a plug-in. It could even be that your website has been hacked and had some nefarious plug-in installed (I’ve heard of that, but never seen it happen).

Are you sure you tested every plug-in? I looked at the source code for Teaching Jobs in Leicestershire and noticed you’re using WordPress File Monitor, which hasn’t been updated for 2 years. Could be that.

You’ll want to create a “Child Theme” for your website:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

After you do that, you’ll edit your header.php file to insert that camera image. But let’s get the Child Theme working first.

Go into your server’s file system where you installed WordPress, and find a folder called “wp-content”. In there, find the “themes” folder.

Create a new folder called “twentytwelvechild” and enter it. Now, we’re going to create a file called style.css

Open up a text editor and paste in the following code:

/*
Theme Name:     Twenty Twelve Child
Description:    Child theme for the Twenty Twelve theme
Template:       twentytwelve
Version:        0.1.0
*/

@import url("../twentytwelve/style.css");

Now save that as “style.css” and upload it your “twentytwelvechild” folder. Congratulations! You have a Child Theme.

One more thing, go back to your “themes” folder, find the “twentytwelve” folder. In there, copy the “header.php” file and paste it into your “twentytwelvechild” folder.

Please reply after you do this, or if you have any problems.

Hi Joeseven,

I apologize for not replying sooner – I had a lot of college stuff the past few days. You know how it is.

Are you able to login to your Dashboard now? Or is this Child Theme an attempt to login?

I did a side-by-side comparison of the code you put here, and this page, and I only see one difference. On this line:

@import url(../twentyten/style.css);

You need to put quotes around the URL, like this:

@import url("../twentyten/style.css");

And hopefully that will fix it.

Yes.

If you look under your Appearance menu, you’ll see a link to the Editor. This lets you modify the code to your theme. You’ll want the Header (header.php) file, where the search form is being pulled in from.

Actually, it’s best to use a Child Theme on top of your theme, so if the theme author sends out a new version, it won’t overwrite your changes.

In your Header file (or the header.php copy in your Child Theme), look for this code:

<?php get_search_form( $echo ); ?>

This gets the search form, so obviously all you have to do is delete it. You can read more about it here.

Let’s assume that it’s a plugin or the theme that’s preventing you from logging in. Are you able to get on the server itself, to delete/move files around? Because I’m thinking that’s what we’ll do.

In the directory where you installed WP, you’ll have a folder called “wp-content”. In there you’ll have a folder called “plugins”. You can go in and just delete them (or move them somewhere else, so you can put them back later if you want). After moving/deleting all your plugins, see if you can login.

Again, back to “wp-content”, but now to the “themes” folder. Move/delete the Weaver theme, but you’ll need another theme in there, for WP to fall back on. If you don’t have Twenty Ten in there, you can always download it, then upload it to your themes folder by FTP.

If a different theme doesn’t fix it, I’d guess your wp-login.php file got damaged somehow. Download a fresh copy of WP to your computer, take the wp-login.php file, and upload it over the old one.

*

Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven are both “official” WordPress themes, named after the years they were made. Twenty Ten is my favorite theme, for sure. Because the WordPress team made them, they’re always up-to-date and well-maintained.

I don’t know if you’re good at CSS and all that, but what I do is make a Child Theme on top of Twenty Ten, and modify it to look how I want. That way, Twenty Ten is doing all the heavy-lifting, and I can get the exact look I want.

What is your website, so we can visit it?

What host do you use? i.e. GoDaddy, Hostgator, and so on.

Unfortunately, Internet Explorer tends to be a step behind browsers like Chrome and Firefox, and lack support for various CSS/Javascript features. This means that the same website will look different in it, because it can’t render all the code used to make the site.

This is an unavoidable issue all websites suffer from. Hopefully it’s not too badly different, is it?

Changing the code is easy, and can be done within WordPress – using the Editor under the Appearance menu, you’ll change the “style.css” file as necessary.

I can tell you what code you need to change, and what to change it to, but I need to know: What do you mean by “increase”? Make the text bigger? More space around it?

Hi!

I’m glad to hear you’re willing to learn! Building your own website is fun, rewarding, and easier than most people think (at least, in my opinion).

I visited your site, and it looked good to me. Could you be more specific about your problems? For example, I don’t actually see any widgets on your site, or any duplicated tabs.

Login at https://www.breathminder.com/wp-login.php

When you enter breathminder.com/wp-admin, if you’re not logged in, WordPress redirects you to the login page. It seems Weaver or one of your plugins broke this, and is causing you to end up on that strange page instead.

Luckily, the direct link looks like it works.

I would use a plug-in that lets you put widgets in pages (I’d give you a link but I’m on my phone), and put a different Twitter widget on each page.

One caveat, these are widgets in the page text, not the sidebar.

Hi!

I would recommend using Google Analytics, they have all sorts of useful tools. They also have a WordPress plug-in.

Here’s a help page from Google, explaining how to track incoming traffic from another website.

Oh, so you mean where it says:

? OLDER POSTS

Am I correct? That would still require editing the code, unless your theme has an option to disable it.

I’m not sure exactly how to remove them (I’ve never done that), but this page might help you find what code you need to remove.

You’re talking about in the Post Editor, right? So different authors don’t accidentally use different tags?

Maybe look at the Simple Tags plug-in.

In theory you could edit WordPress itself so it lists certain tags within that box, although I’ve never done anything like that so I can’t advise you on it.

Hi,

I couldn’t find any plugin, and I’m not sure if that is possible within WordPress (anything’s possible, I guess, but you know what I mean).

Two solutions I can think of:

1. Upload folders via FTP
2. Turn the folder into a .zip file and upload it