Kevin M. Schafer

What a bad deal to have this kind of hang-up with a host. I could literally start a dozen WordPress sites if it weren’t for their failed domain forwarding.

Well, thanks for your help anyway. I appreciate you taking the time, esmi.

–Kevin

Hi esmi,

Well, I just got off the phone again with my host provider. It seems their domain forwarding uses something called frames to hold the domain name, and in the case of having WordPress in sub-folder, it won’t work.

When it’s switched on, the site appears and everything is normal looking, but I can’t click any of the admin bar links. The Chrome browser tabs refresh and I don’t go anywhere.

Is there a plugin for WordPress that can display a different url when the WordPress site loads? Any other ideas?

Well this really has me stumped. If I could get this figured out, I may have the opportunity to set up a couple of WordPress installs (in my ftp folder) for my relatives.

A rep from my host provider told me a month ago or so that they’re knowledgeable in WordPress, but they’re not allowed to help with it. They need to know and understand it, he said, so they’re able to tell if a customer’s problem is WordPress or hosting related.

Maybe my host provider doesn’t have the domain name forwarding activated all the way. The basic does not allow “Domain Stay” and it places an ad for their service at the bottom of the page. I called them yesterday and upgraded the forwarding service, but I’m thinking something isn’t right with it yet.

esmi,

Okay, I performed a fresh install of WordPress, including first deleting any previous attempt from my database.

Everything works perfectly, except I can’t get the url to display correctly. I changed the site address line in settings, and that didn’t change anything.

As I previously mentioned, I have domain name forwarding, and even have the “Domain Stay” unchecked (so that the long name won’t stay).

If I change the “WordPress Address” line, I think the site will lock up.

With my first install several months ago, I placed the WordPress files in a sub-folder, but have the index.php in the root and that url displays correctly.

Is it even possible what I’m trying to do — have another WordPress install in a sub-folder (index.php and all), then making a domain name point to it, expecting it to display correctly?

Hi esmi,

I did stumble onto that page and tried it. I’ll be honest, I’ve been trying a lot of things, so I don’t remember the outcome.

I’ll delete my second install, including deleting the newly created items in my database. I’ll do a new install and try changing the “Home” url line and see if it works.

To my recollection, it did work, but I couldn’t get into the site. I mean, the url displayed properly, but when I clicked on any link in the black admin bar, my browser (Chrome) refreshed but didn’t take me anywhere.

I’ll post back in a bit.

Thank you so much for your help.

I contact the developers often. Many of them are very good at getting back to me. It’s just scary knowing that it can sometimes take a few days to get the issue resolved, waiting for their result and a fix.

I have no idea how something as complex as WordPress functions. I’m not mad, and I hope I didn’t give anyone the impression I was. I’m beginning to think that updating WordPress (for the WordPress developers), is a bit like needing to use a tractor in the middle of a flower garden. There’s no easy, simple way to get the tractor into the garden without something becoming tangled or trampled. The garden is free to develop on its own, and the pathways pretty much always become overgrown between updates.

The last thing I want is to go for months without updating. I could end up with a dozen or more plugins that no longer function, instead of one or two. I always update as soon as I possibly can.

Today, Contact Form 7 tangled with NextGEN Gallery after the updates (3.4 and the CF7 respective update). The last time I updated WordPress, I couldn’t get NextGEN to work at all. Infact, it crashed my site. At the time, to get NextGEN to work again, I had to take a crash course in memory allotment and tweak a php.ini file. I go for days not having the time to properly take care of some business matters. When updates cause troubles, it’s never really a good time.

Today, when Contact Form 7 caused photo upload troubles with NextGEN, I found a different contact form to use. I like the clean, simple aspect of CF7. I will check with them in a week or more to see if they have their issue resolved.

Okay, well, to be honest, all my high-end purchased plugins keep working — so far. It’s the free ones that I install that give me trouble. I donate to many of them — especially if the plugin plays a vital role in the operation of my site (the way I want my WordPress site to function).

WordPress is awesome, and I will always use it.

Thanks for the replies. It will be a bit of a fight, I’m afraid, each and every time WordPress is updated.

Nope, my bad. Contact Form 7 works with 3.4. When I created my two contact forms, I forgot to select permissions. Everything is fine.

Contact Form 7 works with 3.4 for me!

Whoa, I just logged in to my site as a subscriber and one contact form works and one doesn’t (i have two set up). They both work as admin, just not as a subscriber.

I went back to using version 1.2.5.4 and an error occurs when I try to access my admin page — when logged in as the admin or a subscriber. So, now I’m back to using the latest version of AG Custom Admin.

The admin bar still appears for a split second each time a page is loaded.

I have resorted to going into each subscriber’s profile and un-checking the box that says “Show toolbar when visiting the site.” I’m sure somewhere down the line, a subscriber will check the box again — which won’t do anything for them except for lowering the site about 30 px from the top in their browser and provide them with an annoying black bar blinking at the top of their screen every time they click on a link.

I tried the new version again today (1.2.6.2), and now it works. The only thing, when I log in as a subscriber, the admin bar appears for a split second then disappears.

I went back to using version: 1.2.5.4 and it works perfectly. The admin bar does not appear at all when subscribers log in to my site.

Thank you for the reply, argonius. The AG Custom Admin plugin is fantastic, and now that I’ve tried it for about a month, I will be making a donation. Please keep up the great work.

Hi trowenc,

I didn’t have any memory lines at all in my wp-config or php.ini files. By adding them I solved my problem.

I believe your memory amount has to be divisible by the number “8”.

Try the number 72 or 80 or maybe 88 or 96.

Please let me know if you have any luck. I hope this helps.

In case any one wants to know how I fixed this, please read this.

First, I added this line of code to my wp-config file:

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’64M’);

Next, I added this line of code to my php.ini file:

memory_limit = 64M

This allowed me to start using NextGEN 1.9.3 again. If anyone needs any help, just give me a yell.

–Kevin

Here’s what I’m getting for an error today, after deactivating some other plugins and trying to re-install 1.9.3 NextGEN:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 311296 bytes) in /home/*****/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/admin/manage-images.php on line 485