LavenderRose

okay, so how would I go about migrating the posts to another page? Is there a setting I need to address that makes them show up on another page? Thanks for your help BTW

Just realized for the first time though that the main page (blog page) does not show up in my pages tab to edit…and not sure what directory to put it in in wordpress to change that.

No, not a separate install…was just told years ago, when first setting up the site that if I didn’t want all the wordpress stuff in the root directory to install in a subdirectory and then move index page to the root directory and customize the URL. Now I want to change that page without losing the post content to a secondary page and designate another page as the new static home page.

and is there a way to not have my sidebar on my main page, but instead only on the secondary pages?

Here is part of my problem. WordPress is installed in a subdirectory with the current home page (the blog page) outside of it. Ordinarily I think I would just change the order of the page and be done, but because it is outside of the directory that wordpress is installed in, it does not show up in my listing of pages to edit. So I am not sure how to proceed without losing years of posts

No, was not using a plugin, just a direct link to the file, which like I said was working fine no problem until the latest wordpress upgrade, and now they just take me to the main page for the website.

heading to bed now, will be praying for good news when I wake up !! LOL and many thanks again for all your help !!

Sooo, I had this great idea to put the snappy list on my father’s other website which does not use creativo but is also using the most current version of word press, I figured if it would work there, then I would just figure out a work around to have subscribers go to a link there to sign up…genius right ?! Well, it won’t work there either !!

If you wouldn’t mind, could you check it out for me?
https://tradingbetweenthelines.com/subscribe/

I actually tried mailchimp first and for whatever reason, it would not work consistently…in other words, it worked for a few people trying to sign up, but not for others. I also downloaded and peeked at a few more, but they were way more complicated and unwieldy than I need. If I could find one as simplistic and easy to work with as Snappy List, I would be happy to change and try it, but I have literally spent the last three hair pulling days trying to find something that would work and be easy enough for me to understand and set up. I have sent an email to the support dept of creativo and hopefully will hear something positive back from them, but frankly when I raised an issue with being forced to use font awesome icons as they are prepackaged with the theme and not allowed to change to another, I don’t foresee much help coming from them…but will keep my fingers crossed and keep you posted if you would like. BTW, I see you are a word press developer, would you be interested in doing for a small fee and if so, how much? Either way, thank you so very much for your time and assistance !!

I even tried deactivating and deleting the snappy list plugin and reinstalling it to see if now that those errors you first found were gone, maybe it would work now, no such luck…obviously it is the theme, since it still would not work even after deactivating every single other plugin available…how much does it cost to hire someone to fix this if the themes author won’t (and trust me when I say that they are less than cooperative when it comes to something that they don’t consider their problem)…because this is my 78 yr old Dad’s website, who suddenly last year decided to become an indie author and doesn’t have a lot of money and I his disabled grandmotherly daughter, just happen to play around with this stuff as a hobby and don’t charge him for it LOL

okay, I deactivated the theme and activated twenty fifteen instead, but when I went to the site to try snappy again, there was nothing on the site at all, so have no freaking way of knowing if it is the theme or not…any other suggestions?

how do I back up my data before changing themes?

No, when I say I deactivated all the plugins, I meant jetpack too..the only plugin that was active was the snappy list and it still did not work.

okay, I deactivated every plugin except the snappy, including the jetpack and it is still not working…so does that mean it is the theme? which by the by is a premium paid for one.

also, I am assuming you are running jet pack? so can skip that one?