scotthom

I think that the recent articles function is built into the theme. I installed the theme on one of my sites and it added the “Articles” section with posts, pages, comments, etc in the dashboard.

You can remove the button from the sidebar in the widgets section – under Appearance.

As for removing the Recent Articles section in the main body area of the page below your boxes ‘our values’ and ‘our services’ – that’s a theme edit.

Two articles to look at: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Theme_Development and https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes. You might be best off to create a child theme that removes the Recent Articles code.

It might be easier to choose a theme that is easier to work with and not designed to be used as a repository of articles and books – check out Appearance and Annotum settings (all geared towards journal articles).

You can put the site under maintenance mode again.

You have it set as under maintenance – can’t see it.

Let me take a look at the theme.

Did you make any changes to the theme?

Is it on the sidebar?

Try switching to Twenty Eleven theme and see if you can see the text.

If they are posts – change them from published to drafts (to the right of the box where you write content)

If they are pages – same thing – change from published to drafts.

A few things:

* It’s generally best not to install wordpress into a directory – especially a directory named index (index.php is one of the main pages in a wordpress install)
* After you uninstall WP on your server, make sure you dump the cache in your web browser / refresh your browser. It also make take a few minutes for the server to show the changes you’ve made on it.
* When WP is installed it automatically loads a generic theme. You can change it latter on.

Hope that helps.

Hi everyone,

Thank you for your help. I deleted everything and did a reinstall and followed the instructions for multisite. It works!

No idea what was wrong before, but taking a three week break definitely helped.

Thanks!

No and there is only one user in the records.

The only thing I can find in the MySQL is under the wp_usermeta table the field “show_admin_bar_admin” is false. Is there anything else that could cause it?

Thanks!

If I’m not logged in, it takes me to the login page.

If I’m logged in, it says “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

Yes my login is ‘admin’.

This is what it says in wp_sitemeta table in the site_admins field:
a:1:{i:0;s:5:”admin”;}

I definitely do not see that when logging in. I’ll check the tables now.

I’m sorry for the delay in responding but work has been all consuming.

Here is the code in the wp-config file:

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
define( 'MULTISITE', true );
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );
$base = '/';
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'gobicapital.ca' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' );
define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );

I have already gone through the steps of creating a network – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Create_A_Network – however when I go to log back in there is no “Network Admin” in the top right corner nor the ability to manage a network of sites.

Any help to resolve this is much appreciated.

@ipstenu Sorry, the define( ‘MULTISITE’, true ) is in the wp-config file.

@andrea_r I followed the directions and even consulted your ebook. What should I check the db tables for? The list of db tables is below.

wp_blogs, wp_blog_versions, wp_commentmeta, wp_comments, wp_links, wp_options, wp_postmeta, wp_posts, wp_registration_log, wp_signups, wp_site, wp_sitemeta, wp_terms, wp_term_relationships, wp_term_taxonomy, wp_usermeta, wp_users

wp-config:

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );
$base = '/';
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'gobicapital.ca' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' );
define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );

Edited to remove the database username and password. NEVER post passwords!