rdmckelvey

This may be the same question, but if I set the email setting to “Before redirecting to PayPal” I get the form content immediately (as I would expect). Is it the case that a second email will be generated after payment is complete? I haven’t tested this, since I don’t want to commit the funds (unless I really have to!). If this is the case, then I don’t think anything is broken or different.

My bottom line is whether the client will get both the form content and then afterwards the payment confirmation.

Sorry for being unsure of this…I set it up quite a while ago and have forgotten most of what I learned about it when I first did the work.

I’m not sure we’re talking about the same thing (but I could be slow :-)…

What we want to do is to have an email sent immediately when a visitor completes the form, and then a second email when they finish paying. This is a request from my client…I’m guessing they want to be aware of people who bailed out after getting to the payment step. Again, they believe that the “before and after” emails were how the plugin was set up in the past.

Thanks for the speedy answer. I’m pleased and impressed!

Just to close this discussion out, I’ve solved my problem. It turns out my client had set up the Site Address to include “index.html” but had also gone to the BlueHost dashboard and set up a redirect to that address. I was completely unaware of the latter.

All is well.

t-p,
Thank you for providing this advice. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be the answer. If I go to phpMyAdmin and the options table, I see the “home” entry is “https://www.menokin.org/index.html” It clearly should be set to simply “https://www.menokin.org”. However, if I edit the field to that, I get what I reported previously, a “too many redirects” message from Chrome (obviously some sort of infinite loop?).
If I go to the WordPress dashboard and change the home (Site Address) field there, it changes the entry in the options table in the process (not surprisingly). It doesn’t seem to make a difference if I edit this table entry manually in cpanel, or through WordPress settings. The result is the same.

I don’t understand why the path, https://www.menokin.org/index.html/ seems to point to the root of the site instead of just the domain name…?

Thanks again!

Sorry about the lack of code formatting…I cut and pasted this post from another forum post and didn’t notice. Here’s a better look:

I’ve got a static home page that is pulling posts from a particular category (“Press Release”). There is also a “blog” page that pulls posts from a different category. The client wants to have selected posts from the blog category show also be included on the home page. I’ve got that working.

Here’s my question/issue. The client also wants to have the author name show on the blog page articles, but not on the home page. What I’m trying to do is to have a conditional in the post.php page that includes the_author, but to not do so if the post is on the home page.

I tried this:
<?php if(in_category('11') && !is_home()) { ?>

This did not work…the author name still shows on the home page. I tried using is_front_page() instead and still the same…author shows.

Out of curiosity, I tried inserting some random content on the page using something like:

<php if(is_home()) { ?> <span>Hello world</span> <?php } ?>
<php if(is_frong-page()) { ?> <span>Hello world</span> <?php } ?>

Nothing! This leads to my question: is there some reason you can’t detect a page in the post.php code? BTW I also tried a page id, which didn’t work.

Yes, I want a “Learn More” link that goes to the random post. I have posts from a particular category going to a sidebar. There are seven posts in the category, so when the page loads, one of the seven is displayed. There is a thumbnail image, the post title and an excerpt.

The widget generates a link to the full post attached to the thumbnail and the title. What I hope to do is use the “HTML after the random posts” to add “Learn More >”. Since the posts are randomly selected, I can’t put a hard-coded URL in the box. I need to have the link go the same place as the image and title.

Thanks for the detailed advice…

I had a friend of mine look things over and he found an .htaccess and .htpassword file in the uploads folder. He deleted those and everything was immediately available. The strange thing is that both he and I were using FileZilla to look at the files and I swear I never saw either of these files for the days(!) I was befuddled by this problem.

Also, since the files were deleted, I have no idea what was in them… If I go to the live site (from which I made the copy), I don’t see either file there. I can’t say what may have created these files or when they were made!

For me, the case is essentially closed.

I agree that it’s up to me to find it. But my problem is that it doesn’t seem to be in any of the php files (I downloaded the full live theme to a local copy and searched all the files for the older code). It seems it’s not in any of the files.

The version of twenty ten I used as a basis had a file called “sidebar-footer.php” that has four footer widgets. As I said, I don’t think I ever used these, and they are empty if I look at the widgets in the Widgets page on the dashboard.

Since I can’t find anything in the php files or, apparently the SQL database, I’m left wondering about some odd cached files somewhere or something.

(I doubt this, but I’m starting to think along the lines of black magic…).

My apologies for past decisions to alter code.

Thanks!

OK, thanks again… another mystery to solve ??

I haven’t tried contact them…I didn’t realize it was not supported here (I posted here after finding an answer to another question about the Skeleton theme code from about a year ago on these forums).

I’ll see if I can find support for the theme elsewhere. If you don’t mind one last question: the syntax and general logic of what I’m trying to do look reasonable in general?

thank you for your time!

I just tried the page ID: !(is_page(14)) and again, the image appears.

I meant to include a link to the site, a very simple 4-pager at this point…

https://www.herndonfdn.org/beta/

I just ran into this same problem today. I’m seeing exactly what blobaugh is seeing. Further, all the posts that were in my site that came from MeetUp are gone when I view “posts” on my dashboard, yet it says there are 43 in existence, and some (but not all) show up on the home page. Further, the calendar says there are no events, so it’s basically gone.

I don’t know what to do next!

I haven’t untangled this mess entirely, but what I’m not seeing is that (I think) one of my plug-ins is wreaking havoc. I did reflexively update a bunch of plugins yesterday, one of which was WP-MeetUp. If I deactivate that, my other posts show up. If I reactivate it, all I see are a sampling of posts fed from the MeetUp page.

What’s weird is that in my posts page on the dashboard, it says I have 43 posts of the category ‘event’ which came from MeetUp.com. If I click on the “43” or the category “events” it says there are no posts.

The ‘posts” page says I have only the seven posts I entered manually to test things out.

The WP-Meetup calendar says there are no events, yet the plugin feeds several MeetUp events to the home page.

I’m baffled!

In writing that last post, it got me wondering what would happen if I didn’t limit the query_string to 3 posts and posts not from category 17. When I removed the query_posts line it started working.

I added the limit of three posts back in and that worked.

Now to see if I can successfully omit a category from the posts on the home page.

I still wonder what changed in the past 24 hours… weird!