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Thanks and hi again. I tried changing permalinks to default and then back to my new mode (date/time/postname). And I cleared the browser cache. But post preview is still not working. Any suggestions? I have looked pretty exhaustively through prior WordPress forum strings on this issue but to no avail. The one thing that might be an issue, assuming it is not a plugin issue again, is that my web domain and my server domain are different, and there may be a redirect issue — one of the prior forum strings referred to an issue and solution along these lines. But perhaps there is a different solution?

Thanks much for any leads.

Sorry to bother you again! The “preview post” function is not working when I try to preview one of my blog posts. It takes me to a page that says “page not found.” Could this be a plugin issue?

Thanks!

thank you — Stanford is a great place, glad you spent time there also!

No worries, it has been just fine, I am learning. Can I add a last question? Since I am creating a child theme, does the .htaccess file go in the child theme directory, or does it stay in the directory that contains WP-content? Does it go in the twentytwelve folder?

thanks!

and again thanks!

For my self-hosted WordPress site, to get a new copy of twentytwelve installed (in connection with creating my child theme), all I have to do is deactivate it from within my WordPress admin page, delete it, and then install again, correct? That’s what I’ve already done. Or do I actually have to download a new twentytwelve folder to my local computer and then go by FTP into my server, delete the existing twentytwelve folder, and paste in the new one?

Thanks!

Many thanks — I greatly appreciate the support.

Will plug away at the child theme and get it going again without the new Jetpack comments module, which seems to be the source of the trouble. I did just deactivate the module so you may have now seen the “normal” twentytwelve comments function.

Thanks!

Thanks very much, I appreciate this.

I believe I do have the Jetpack comments module in use.

But the comment function is not working (are you going to lawandrevolution.com rather than the other site?); when I try to “leave a reply,” I enter the text of a reply and then the reply box suddenly contains a version of my home page/header inside the reply box. And Firefox gives me a popup message that says something like I need to reload and an option to cancel or “resend.”

My child theme is not yet activated; it is missing something. How exactly can I do a file compare of the revised style.css with an unchanged style.css for twentytwelve? Can I get a download of the original style.css somewhere? That would help to identify what I ned to input into the new style.css of the child theme (for some reason, the child theme does not display all of my uploaded header images).

Thanks again very much for your assistance!

I followed the suggested plan above but am not having any luck.

I did not do the file comparison for style.css yet because I do not know where to find the “original” style.css for Twenty Twelve, I can only find the current one on my server using FTP. So I proceeded with the steps in hopes of being able eventually to compare the backed up style.css with a newly installed style.css, but I have not gotten to that point because . . .

As my next step, I could not figure out exactly how to replace the twentytwelve parent theme with a new copy — so I deactivated it first, then saw that I could delete it at that point, then I reinstalled it. But when I activated the newly installed twentytwelve, the “leave a reply”/comment function was still not working as described above, which one would not expect because it is a “new” copy presumably. And I noticed that my plugins were still there — in other words, I don’t seem to have a truly new, clean copy of twentytwelve in place and don’t know how I would go about doing this other than how I did it.

Result is, I have lost some of the formatting I previously had to my edited twentytwelve theme, before I made the child theme, and no luck with improving the “leave a reply” function following the above steps. And my child theme, which I tried to activate, no longer displays all of the images I had uploaded, among other differences.

I don’t see why the “leave a reply” function is not working — I don’t have all that many plugins and they are pretty standard.

Can you advise please?

Thanks very much!

OK will follow that suggestion — thanks very much for the advice.

Thanks very much. I have indeed made a few changes to the theme: header font size, for example, and adding some footer text, as well as adding a favicon. Possibly one or two other changes. I went back and tried deactivating and then reactivating WP Google Fonts. That didn’t make a difference. Except that now when I try to post comments, the comment form reproduces my header text and then the page titles.

I have a feeling I need to rebuild this site from scratch using Twenty Twelve, create a child theme, put all the plugins back in, and redo my changes to header and footer, etc. Am I right? Or is there an easier fix? I did not use a child theme before making changes and realize I should do so now, but want to avoid a lot of new additional work.

Thanks for your advice.

I tried deactivating plugins, and that seemed to work after I deactivated the Jetpack plugin. But then I lose the functions of Jetpack that I want, like the Twitter widget and other functions. Is there a way to keep the Jetpack plugin and still have my comment function work? Seems like it should be able to work together with WordPress given the developer. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks wetlight for the suggestion, I will look into that. Could the size of the header images be causing problems for the loading of the comments?

Thanks again. I’ll try deactivating the plug-ins and will create a child theme.

Any thoughts on the other item in my opening query? How to get rid of the extra “Leave a reply” line that appears above my posts, so that I only have a “Leave a reply” box below the post as it appears on the home page? I saw one forum recommendation on this point that helped but it had the effect of getting rid of both “Leave a reply” lines, the one at top before the post and the one below the post. If preferable, I will start a new thread/query for this.

Thanks. I did make a few changes: I changed the size of the header font using the Jetpack Custom CSS editor. And I edited the footer text to add some copyright language. There may be one or two other changes that I can’t recall.

I have not tried deactivating my plugins — perhaps it is the Facebook button plugin that I am using because that one does appear in the Posts area? I will proceed to deactivate plugins one by one unless you think it is one of my theme changes that is the culprit.

Thanks very much for your help.