mattyk

Thanks for the quick reply! I’ll let you know how I get on!

Just to follow this up – as I thought this feature isn’t automatically added to the self hosted version. I’m guessing it could cause problems with it being used to send out loads of emails which might be problematic depending on the hosting. Plus there must be a way of unsubscribing / dealing with bounces.

Hi Jan – thanks for the reply.

Just to clarify – on the “.com” wordpress this feature was set up automatically.

On the self hosted (not .com) it isn’t.

It’s actually the “follow” feature – I’m going to take a closer look now at how to get that up and running on a self install.

Thanks so much for this again – VERY useful

Hi Esmi

Thanks for this. I’d tried these before with no luck but your reply inspired me to keep trying.

I’ve had success with get_posts

<?php
global $post;
$args = array( 'numberposts' => 1, 'category_name' => 'competitions' );
$myposts = get_posts( $args );
foreach( $myposts as $post ) :	setup_postdata($post); ?>

	<a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

<?php endforeach; ?>

but I can’t work out how to put a message up when nothing is found – Any ideas are welcome!

thanks

Thanks for this – instead of using a plugin I thought I’d look into disabling wpautop for pages only.

However, strangely adding this gets rid of all <P>s even when I type them in. I’m sure this wasn’t happening yesterday. So if I’m in the code view, I type a <p> around some text, move to visual editor, then back to html editor the <p>s have been stripped. Am I doing something wrong or is this what the wpautop filter does?

Much appreciated.

That worked! Keesiemeijer – you are a genius. Thanks!

Thanks for the reply. Just tried:

Updated Permalink to default.
Deleted “scrapbook” page entirely.
created new scrapbook page.
Clicked on view which worked. (which was something like mysite.com/p=23)
Updated the Permalink to “day and name”
Clicked on view on the scrapbook page (mysite.com/scrapbook)
Got the server 404 message.

Quite annoying this! – Also strange how it goes to the server 404 message rather than the default wordpress 404

Any help much appreciated!

Just to follow up.

In my case this had nothing to do with contact form 7.

The emails that WordPress sends out were only getting through to some email clients. Most of the time they didn’t even end up in spam folder.

I think it might be some kind of server setting where some mail clients were unable to receive the emails.

M

thanks for the reply and confirmation

OK this gets weirder.

If I set it to go to hotmail or gmail it gets through.

I’ve tried a couple of other email addresses but get nothing. I’ve checked the junk mail folder and they don’t go to there either.

I’m still having this problem even after uninstalling and deleting it.

I can only send the form to my hotmail account which is the one I used when setting up wordpress.

I don’t have this problem on other sites that are set up with different hosting companies.

Could this have something to do with the way my server is set up?

Maybe someone could recommend an alternative script or plugin?

thanks

I’m having what I think is the same problem.

If I send an email to my hotmail address I get the email.

Any other address I get nothing.

The hotmail address is the one I set up for my admin. Could this have something to do with it?

Thanks peterebutler for that. Looks a bit too complicated for my PHP understanding butits good to have another option if other things fail. I thought i’d fixed it a moment ago.

I changed the $post->comment_status to = open at the end of the 2nd loop. This gave me control over the comment form but when I tested it went to “wp-comments-post.php” in the root and said that “comments were closed”. It must still be taking the status from the last post of the main loop.

Does anyone else have any suggestions?

Many thanks again!

Hi sorry for resurrecting an old topic but I’m having a similar problem and you might have already come across it.

I also need a loop with a page (a wordpress created through the CMS). However I need to allow comments at the bottom of the page.

The problem is that if the last post happens to have comments disabled, then it disables it for the whole page. I’ve tried using page.php and also creating my own template as suggested.

I’ve posted more details here https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/256947

Much appreciated!