janew

Hi @plantprogrammer

Thanks for your direction. I think I was overthinking things and making it all more complicated than it needed to be. After three hours of staring at the code and all the pages you listed, I realized everything is already in the comments.php file, I was just misreading it. Looking for the actual code of the comments form without realizing the comments form was being called within that file.

Anyway, I solved my problem, but it was with your help and so I want to say thank you for pointing me in the right direction!

Add: I’m using TwentyTwenty theme, though I think this relies on the entire WP structure, so probably not important, just thought I’d say in case it is….

Ohhh! Duh, now you say it, it seems obvious.
Yes, that worked perfectly.
Thank you!

I’m sorry I don’t understand any of that. I didn’t rename anything, I just copied the code from the Child Theme page of WordPress. As far as I can tell, it only defines two stylesheets: parent and child. Both of those are listed in my head, but the third one listed in the head is also the child style sheet, with a different id. I don’t know where that id came from.
This is from the functions.php of the parent theme:

function twentytwenty_register_styles() {

	$theme_version = wp_get_theme()->get( 'Version' );

	wp_enqueue_style( 'twentytwenty-style', get_stylesheet_uri(), array(), $theme_version );
	wp_style_add_data( 'twentytwenty-style', 'rtl', 'replace' );

	// Add output of Customizer settings as inline style.
	wp_add_inline_style( 'twentytwenty-style', twentytwenty_get_customizer_css( 'front-end' ) );

	// Add print CSS.
	wp_enqueue_style( 'twentytwenty-print-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/print.css', null, $theme_version, 'print' );

}

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'twentytwenty_register_styles' );

I don’t see anywhere there that it loads the child css as well. Am I missing it? Could be this is where that last id is coming from, but as said it’s applied to the child css and this is for the parent css.
I’m very confused. Please help.

Is this still valid? It has worked fantastic for me since implementing a year ago, but last night, directly after upgrading from 4.3 to 4.4, I uploaded 45 pictures and they were ALL linked! Ugh.
After going in and uploading a single, unlinked picture, I was then again able to upload bulk photos unlinked. And again this morning I am uploading unlinked photos. So maybe just a glitch last night? Maybe it reset itself after the upgrade and needed a kick to remember what it was supposed to do? I dunno….
Been working so well for so long, through so many updates and upgrades over the year (my WP is always up to date). Probably just a glitch, right?

Further to Paula’s tip, when copying the preview URL, you gotta edit it.

Preview URL looks like this: https://www.yoursite.com/?p=1824&preview=true
Copy only this part: https://www.yoursite.com/?p=1824

Still only a workaround, no solution yet available, apparently….

Nope, still doesn’t work. I’m guessing something is amiss with core files or a plugin or something, but it’s not important enough to me to waste time searching for the reason. I’m just using the not-so-shortlink provided in the Preview address bar.

Your image is what I am talking about. However, I have other websites running WordPress, all with different themes, some child, some original and it’s about a 50/50 mix, I think. Some show the button, some don’t. Can’t find a pattern.
Deleting and replacing WordPress core files sounds dangerous and time consuming. At this point it’s not quite that important to me. I think I can probably just copy the url shown on the edit page and configure a shortlink from that.
Hopefully others will have the same problem and someone at WordPress will be able to duplicate it and fix it.
Thanks for trying! ??

Deactivated all plugins, no joy.
Switched to Twenty Fifteen theme – nope.

I am using Twenty Eleven child theme. Is there any way I can re-add that button?

Hate to argue, but they were there and now, after the update, they are gone. As stated in my original post, I was not using the Jetpack version (that redirects from wp.me) I was using the default WordPress version that looks like https://website.com/?p=123 but which redirects to the actual url https://website.com/pretty-link/

That works!
I tried using position: absolute, but I guess I applied it to the wrong class or used it incorrectly somehow – I forget exactly what I did.
But this works, so I thank you very much! ??

Okay, have changed back to your original code.
https://tinyurl.com/plxmwvb

Is this what you want? This is how I have modified it to look.

https://tinyurl.com/plxmwvb (NSFW: Site name and archive page contain “adult” language … links contain material unsuitable for sensitive eyes.)

Hmmm … not sure if I am just talking to myself here or if anyone is actually listening.

I re-installed iThemes Security and followed the popup instructions to get it going and then left it. No error messages. Then I went into the Dashboard and the first “High Priority” item was to schedule backups, so I did. I only checked the box to activate backups. And when I clicked Save Changes, I got the Internal Server Error. Then I got it a couple more times, while viewing and saving posts.
I disabled Backups and no longer get the error message.

So here’s the thing: on installing the plugin, the first popup that comes up shows four things to do first, the first of which advises to backup the site. I click the button to do it and it shows “Waiting”. And it showed waiting for two or three hours before I finally clicked the Dismiss link in the bottom corner. (I should note that this happened the first time I installed as well – it took forever to backup and I hit Dismiss.)
I don’t know if there’s too much on my site to backup or if there’s a corruption somewhere, but it really seems to have a problem backing it up, and it seems obvious that is what was throwing up the error messages.

Hopefully that helps you, Gerroald, pinpoint the problem in the plugin, or possibly let me know if there is something I can do to be able to use the Backups option.

Thanks!

UPDATE:

I deactivated all other plugins except Akismet and still get the Internal Server Error.

Then I reactivated all other plugins and deactivated iThemes Security. I no longer get the Internal Server Error.

So it’s definitely a problem with this plugin. Right?

I am going to try re-installing iThemes Security and leave the settings at Default and see what happens.