Scott DeLuzio

It seems like the database wasn’t updated for the new site URL.
Did you read through this article before transferring? https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

The Settings > Reading page has the correct settings – I have the two dashboards open side by side and all the settings are the same there.

The homepage uses it’s own template page, but I copied that from the original site as well – the templates on the two servers are identical.

I even tried to change the template used on the home page to the template that appears to work correctly on the other pages – it still doesn’t display the content. And yes, the page set to be the home page does have content in it on the edit page – identical to what is on the original site.

Also another thing I just noticed is that the WP admin bar that shows up at the top of the screen when logged in doesn’t appear when I’m on the home page, but it does appear on the other pages. And by saying that the WP admin bar “doesn’t appear”, I mean that the <div id="wpadminbar" class="" role="navigation">...</div> doesn’t even load to the home page when I view the source.

I would contact the plugin’s author for support on this. It seems like there are some issues they need to address.
I installed this plugin on a test development site, with a bunch of diagnostic error checking installed. After installing Post Expirator, there were many errors and warnings that showed up.
I think the support needed is beyond the scope of this forum, so contacting the developer may be the best bet.

Do you just want the site translated into English/Spanish? There are several plugins available that will do this automatically for you (by machine rather than manual translation). – https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search.php?q=language+translator

This method may be less precise depending on the content of your blog (i.e. highly technical writing may be less precise due to varied meanings of certain words that are out of context when translated).

If you are looking to write the content and translate it manually side by side as you described, you might try a plugin like Columns, which will let you achieve the two column post layout that you were looking for.

Do you have debugging enabled? It’s under the “Diagnostics” link on the settings page. If so, does it show any errors?

Do you have FTP access to your site’s files? If so, check your .htaccess file to see if there is anything causing links to be sent to www.ads-software.com?

If it’s not that, try deactivating all plugins. If that helps, then reactivate them one by one to see which one is causing your issue.

Take a read through this post, which may help you figure out where the issue is.

I said that the .htaccess 401 line should work, however each host has a different set of rules and it doesn’t work 100% of the time.

I’m assuming you want to display something like a flag for each specific country?
You can find info about how to do this here
Real quick code to use in a page template (just one template should dynamically generate the correct flag code for each country), might look like:

<?php
$ip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
?>
<img src='https://api.hostip.info/flag.php?ip=<?php echo $ip; ?>' alt='IP Address Lookup' />

Can you manually edit the main WordPress .htaccess file?

If so, add the following line to the top (or before the WordPress rules start if you have other things in there).

ErrorDocument 401 default

This should help solve the issue.

My intention wasn’t to solicit contact from anyone – @danelliott did say he may wish to get in touch with me for additional assistance. Since I was somewhat familiar with his situation already, I was only providing a link to my contact info as a courtesy in case he couldn’t find help elsewhere.

Please feel free to remove the link if it is inappropriate to list here.

Not a problem, glad I could help.
When you move your site, you may want to watch out for a few issues that may arise (like broken links) – you can use a plugin that might help with that Broken Link Checker.

Also, be sure to back everything up before you move things. Murphy’s Law might peek it’s ugly head during the process. I like WordPress Backup to Dropbox for backing up the whole site’s files and database.

Let me know if you need anything else.

That’s probably because time travel hasn’t been invented yet ?? (an attempt at humor there).

Your script seems to be set for next year 11/27/2014

Try 2013, and it should work.

**EDIT** Didn’t see the other posts until after I submitted mine. Now I wish time travel was invented…note to self – work on time travel.

I’m glad the sharing buttons are working now!

As for your comments issue, in your Dashboard, click Settings > Discussion. Deselect the box next to “Allow people to post comments on new articles”. This will prevent the “Leave a comment” section from automatically appearing at the end of any new articles (although you can override this when creating new posts on a case by case basis if desired).

As for the existing articles, in your Dashboard, click on Posts. Hover your mouse over the existing article, and click on the Quick Edit link that appears. Somewhere off to the right there should be a check box for “Allow Comments”. Deselect that box and click the Update button.
Rinse and Repeat as needed ??

Where are you trying to add that code? To a page through your WordPress page editor, or inserting it in a PHP file?

There are plugins that can do something similar for you. I don’t know of any that auto detect based on the user’s IP, but you can use a plugin to allow the users to select their language.

• https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/simple-language-switcher/
• https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wcm-user-language-switcher/
• https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-language/

I also wouldn’t rely on a user’s IP to determine what language they speak. While many times a user’s IP will allow you to set the correct language for them, people do travel, and several languages can be spoken in a given region For example, Quebec, Canada could have a French or English speaking population. Or, someone in the United States could speak only Spanish. If your site automatically decides what language to display, these people wouldn’t be able to read your site very easily.

Using one of those plugins that allow the user to select the language they want to read your site in would eliminate this issue. Even better would be to use flag icons that indicate what language the user should expect to see – that way your users won’t have translation issues if they happen to end up viewing your site in a language they don’t speak.