scotianaires

this one has been resolved – when the mess got bad last evening I was able to move the problem over to the hosting company who dealt with the links between the database and the WP code and the site content. This morning the site was working and the URL pointed to the WP folder. I had to do some work adjusting links to images, PDF, etc. but that didn’t take long. The site is now working.
Thanks for your input Andrew.

Sorry about that.

Unfortunately, the domain name is registered with a different company than the hosting company (it’s a long story!)
The hosting company has a redirect but when I tried it, It brought up the home page, but none of the menu links worked so none of the other pages would load.
So I returned the pointer to the original public_html
Then I called the hosting company to see what we could do – since it was easier to get them on the line than the domain name registrar.

Not that I can see. There are a collection of what they call “Simple Scripts” but nothing is called cpanel.

Were I starting from scratch I’d have a self contained site – the only reason I was rebuilding the site was that there is nobody in the chorus with enough savvy to work in the existing site and I thought that if I rebuilt it in WP they’d be able to update the content pages and add new assets to the WP site. This site is quite large and I really didn’t want to bother moving the several hundred photos and PDF docs all of which are archival anyway, which is why I’ve done this the way I have. These assets BTW are on the same “site” just in root level folders so they’re live if the WP folder is live.
That said, all I want is a way to point scotianaires.ca to the folder scotianaires.ca/WP

Turns out to be very simple!
Under Settings – WP-Member Options – It has a field for Register Page – I had pointed it to the Members Only page – when I removed that the comment disappeared. I also had checked “Turn off Registration Page – allow only login” – that’s the only thing checked on the page.
Thanks for the input – it got me thinking about the problem a bit more.
Judith

Bob
Thanks for replying.
I can see the “login form” near the bottom of the wp-login.php (start line 680):

<form name="loginform" id="loginform" action="<?php echo esc_url( site_url( 'wp-login.php', 'login_post' ) ); ?>" method="post">
	<p>
		<label for="user_login"><?php _e('Username') ?>
		<input type="text" name="log" id="user_login" class="input" value="<?php echo esc_attr($user_login); ?>" size="20" /></label>
	</p>
	<p>
		<label for="user_pass"><?php _e('Password') ?>
		<input type="password" name="pwd" id="user_pass" class="input" value="" size="20" /></label>
	</p>
<?php do_action('login_form'); ?>
	<p class="forgetmenot"><label for="rememberme"><input name="rememberme" type="checkbox" id="rememberme" value="forever" <?php checked( $rememberme ); ?> /> <?php esc_attr_e('Remember Me'); ?></label></p>
	<p class="submit">
		<input type="submit" name="wp-submit" id="wp-submit" class="button button-primary button-large" value="<?php esc_attr_e('Log In'); ?>" />
<?php	if ( $interim_login ) { ?>
		<input type="hidden" name="interim-login" value="1" />
<?php	} else { ?>
		<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo esc_attr($redirect_to); ?>" />
<?php 	} ?>
<?php   if ( $customize_login ) : ?>
		<input type="hidden" name="customize-login" value="1" />
<?php   endif; ?>
		<input type="hidden" name="testcookie" value="1" />
	</p>
</form>

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I can see username, password, remember me – BUT not “New User? Click here to register”
Where else might it be?
Also, while I can follow the code, I can’t write it – so when you suggest there’s a function I can apply instead – I don’t have the know how to begin tackling that.

Here’s another problem – we have 52 members at the moment – people come and go. Right now, each member has a distinct user ID and PW. If I password protect a category, i.e. Members Only, then everybody has the same password – I can’t remove access for people after they’ve left the chorus. So this isn’t going to be a simple solution.

Here’s my dilemma – in the current site there is a huge folder/directory of stuff – costume information, performance information, song lyrics, BOD information, meeting minutes… of interest to the members but not to the public. This folder/directory contains many subfolders/directories which are included in the password protection given the main Members Only folder/directory. I don’t wish to password protect the whole site – by category, I’m assuming I create a category called “Members Only” and password protect that – does that mean anything given that category designation (like costume information) will be protected? Can there be more than one category with just the one protected for specific content. I’ll check out your links to see what I can find.
Thanks for responding.