Diana Thompson
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Change URL of self hosted blogIf you are changing domains within bluehost, that is not moving your hosting as well as changing your domain, that should be relatively easy. First, add the new domain to the account. This should automatically create a folder for the new domain’s contents. Go to the old domain’s admin panels and change your site and blog urls to the new site. Move your files to the new domain. Tada. Check https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress and with Bluehost for more details.
I’m getting this error as well, with the latest version of Simple Dropbox Upload and WP 3.4
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Background position menu-itemsHmm, your response is a bit broken up. Maybe you’d like to share your code with https://pastebin.com/.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How can I change some button labels in the dashboard/admin area?Sounds like what you want is to create a custom post type.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: cssThe best way to make changes to your themes CSS is to start by making a child theme. This is important because if you edit your theme files directly, any changes will be lost when you upgrade your theme.
I also recommend using an FTP client (FileZilla, for instance) to download your theme files so you can easily backup your theme and keep an archive of your changes going forward. Depending on how quickly you may need to revert changes to your live site and if you have more than one person accessing your site files, you may want to use version control software, like Subversion.
Once you’ve set up your child theme, change your theme under Appearance in your administration panels and add the lines of CSS you want to change in your child theme’s style.css.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Background position menu-itemsIf I understand your query properly, the most elegant solution would be a “sliding door” technique. In short, create a background image with both your link/active/visited state and your hover state placed side-by-side. Then use CSS positioning to move the image back and forth. Google “sliding door CSS” for more info.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Different header on each page or postEcho can be very useful. It’s not what you want to use here though, because echo is executed after the page structure has been assembled. You want to intercede when your page.php is adding the header.
Something like:
if ( is_page( 'About' ) ) { get_header(about); } elseif ( is_page( 'Colophon' ) ) { get_header(colophon); } else { ....
You sub that code in for your standard <?php get_header(); ?> tag in page.php and create your custom header file, in this example header-about.php and header-colophon.php.
While I’m thinking on it, I’ve used this technique with custom sidebars, not yet with custom headers. I expect it’ll work the same way.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: How to change the position of a widgetWhere you can place widgets depends on where the widgetized areas in your themes are. I’m assuming you’ve already looked at the drag-and-drop options in your Widgets panel.
Good thing is you can add widgetized areas to a theme fairly easily. Start by creating a child theme and have a look at Widgetizing Themes.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [BuddyPress] [Plugin: BuddyPress] Didn't work right on my templateThis is a new one on me. BuddyPress should not have lasting effect on your theme once uninstalled.
I’m assuming that you deactivated then deleted BP through the WP Plugins panel (rather than, say, deleting the plugin folder on your server via FTP), that there were no error messages on uninstall, that you’re using a requisite BP-compatible theme, and that you’ve checked compatibility between your version of WP and the version of BP you installed.
1) Try, if you haven’t already, force refreshing your browsers (Apple/Ctrl F5)
2) Try, if you haven’t already, deleting your browser’s historyIf you’ve checked all this and are still experiencing issues, try reinstalling and uninstalling again.
You could uploading your theme files again, theme files only, though it sounds like your issue may be a symptom of WP retaining a connection to your BP databases.
If still no joy, you might manually delete the BP databases from your WP install, rather than reinstalling the whole site.
You might also ask at the BP forums.
Forum: Hacks
In reply to: Hacked yesterdayI’d start by running Exploit Scanner to see what files may be causing the issue. It may be as easy as restoring theme files from backup.
Once you’ve cleared the issue(s) up, have a look at Hardening WordPress to improve your security.
Also, the Hacks category is for benevolent extension of WordPress functionality rather than unwanted, malevolent code inserted into sites. You might get more responses by moving this thread to How-to and Troubleshooting.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: creating a hidden page for an ebook pdf fileWhat e-commerce plugin are you using? This functionality should be handled within that plugin.
With plug-in questions, please start your thread title with [Plugin: *Your Plugin Name*] and add the plugin name as a tag. This will help you get more specific answers.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Different header on each page or postHave a look at conditional tags for assigning your custom headers to specific pages.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can I use a different theme on a subdomain?Two ways: You can put another installation of WordPress on your subdomain or, the more elegant, enable multisite within your current install.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [WP Super Cache] WP Super Cache – no CSS on Internet Explorer 8 onlyOn the face of it, this sounds like a theme issue rather than a WP Super Cache issue.
You’ve deactivated the plugin and the CSS is reflected in IE8 again, yes? You’ve reactivate WPSC and the CSS formatting is removed again, yes?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Mailchimp: customize success responseThere are multiple plugins for integrating WordPress and MailChimp. You may want to add the name of the plugin you’re using as a tag to get more specialized help.