KathleenH

Hey there. If you are using the ‘Redirection’ plugin by John Godley (Urban Giraffe), then you may need to modify some settings. Check out the detailed instructions here – it worked for me!

https://urbangiraffe.com/support/topic/home-page-is-redirecting-to-another-wp-page-without-my-instruction-to-do-so

I have a feeling that when I updated the plugin, it reset the default settings. All I needed to do was put them back the way they were and everything went back to normal (no need to disable this great plugin!).

Oh, and the other thing you can do is go to Appearance -> Menus, then choose a Category to add to the menu (scroll down if you can’t see it). This adds a menu item called ‘Frank’ which will then display all the posts in the category ‘Frank’. (The same as above only neater and quicker!)

You could try using this plugin to redirect from a Page link to a Category Archive: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/redirection/

I’m not sure this is quite what you’re after, but I used it to make all the posts from one category appear on the one page that could be accessed through the main menu. I made a new page (let’s call it ‘Frank’) which appeared in the menu, then used the plugin to pull up all the posts under the category ‘Frank’ (ie the Category Archive page for ‘Frank’) when clicked on the menu.

If you think this is what you’re after I can explain it in detail – let me know.

I agree with the first comment here – a great plugin, works beautifully, cheers to Kevin for making it. I’d be perfectly happy to provide an outbound link from my site to the WordPress Easy Privacy Policy plugin page or the author’s own plugin page.

But I’m actually not willing to unknowingly provide a link to a completely unrelated site. The option to ‘include a credit link for the Easy Privacy Plugin’ shows a link to the plugin homepage (which of course implies that this particular link will appear on the privacy page), but then the link generated is something completely different.

So yes, a useful plugin, but in my opinion, don’t check the box to include the external link.

You might also find the Widet Logic plugin to be helpful. The description makes it sound a bit techy, but if you click through to the plugin homepage there’s an excellent video tutorial which makes everything very straightforward.

Here’s the link to the plugin: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/widget-logic/

Hey, sorted myself out using Widget Logic plugin, here: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/widget-logic/. If the description sounds a bit techy, click through to the plugin homepage and watch the tutorial video – it’s easier than it sounds! It’s a brilliant plugin!!

This was exactly my problem too! I was getting very jealous of everyone who changed one or two lines of code and were victorious. My host gave me the same reply as erodleir, and when I tried it and it didn’t work they said they could have a look at it for me for $85! Fortunately I found a simple (no cost) solution here: https://wiki.lunarpages.com/Create_php.ini

In brief, create the php.ini file with the increased memory limit details in it (as above), then tell your .htaccess file where to find your php.ini file. Add this line to .htaccess:

suPHP_ConfigPath /home/USERNAME/public_html

Replace USERNAME with your own details (mine is my CPanel username). It seems the php.ini has to go in the same place you installed WordPress, so in my case this was public_html.

I’d be interested to know if this works for anyone else, or if I’m an anomoly.

Thanks esmi – I used the Memory Bump plugin as well, and followed the details on that post for the usual files but I must be one of the very few for whom it didn’t work. The line of code (above) added to the .htaccess file sorted me out. Thanks again.

OK, so the sun is shining again…

It turns out that the php.ini file I made was OK after all. All it said was this:

memory_limit = 64M
post_max_size = 64M
file_uploads = On
upload_max_filesize = 64M

(The 64M was pretty random – I was really after the increased memory limit, which was the cause of error messages galore. I’m sure much smaller figures for posts/filesizes are OK.)

The tricky part was that a line of code was needed (in my case) in .htaccess to tell it where to look. So I added this to .htaccess:

suPHP_ConfigPath /home/USERNAME/public_html

Change USERNAME to your own folder details showing where your newly created php.ini file is.

When I logged back in to WordPress, the error message was gone. I reinstalled all my plugins (at least two of which had caused memory errors before) and all is well. Ah, bliss!

Here’s the link to the helpful page I found, if you are in need of it: https://wiki.lunarpages.com/Create_php.ini

Thanks – I had reversed the htaccess changes so I still have access to WordPress. I had already spoken to my host, and they said to make a php.ini file.

So is there a particular place that the .htaccess code has to go in the file, or is putting it on the first line of the file OK?

Hi Thomas. Did you sort this one out? I’d like to do the same thing – that is, have an image which can be clicked and the PDF appears.

Wow, this is genius! Thank you for posting this solution – it worked beautifully for me and saved me a lot of angst.