scottprock

Thank you … just as I was thinking, not exactly an easy solution. Your information is helpful though. I did start looking into clearing or resetting the MySQL, perhaps I can set up a cronjob to handle this.

Thanks again, your information is reassuring and I feel I’m headed in the right direction.

… Scott

You’ll want to create a page template for any custom page you set up.

The way I manage this, is to take the existing page.php file and make a copy of it. Then I rename it, and the key is to place some php in the top telling WordPress your new page is a template page.

Place this at the top …

<?php
/*
Template Name: Register
*/
?>

When you create the registration page (from within the Worpdress admin), you will notice in the right sidebar there will be a page attributes section with a template pull down. With the example above you will see an option for Register, select the appropriate template page. (in this case it would be Register)

For a better understanding see the following pages …

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Creating_Your_Own_Page_Templates
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Templates

… Scott

I have used this page many times when coming across the exact situation.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

Hopefully it will help … Scott

I was able to fix the problem with a workaround. Unfortunately, there’s still the issue of the template page not pulling the WP loop properly and I’m not sure why.

The workaround was to create a direct link to the category page listing the blog posts. Not exactly dynamic in the sense of portability (if the client were to change servers) but it’s a solution in the short term.

… Scott

Looks like you have removed the right code from the single.php file. Perhaps it’s still in your page.php file and your index.php file.

The index is the default, page.php is for pages, and single.php is for your single blog posts (in case you weren’t aware). You will find the date tags in all those files and in any other file your theme uses to call the wordpress loop.

If none of that works, you might want to install the firebug extension for Firefox, and inspect the css elements of the areas you want to remove.

You can then set the css element to display none.

example css …

.meta {
   color: #ffffff;
   font-size; 10px;
}

changing it to display none would look like this …

.meta {
  display: none;
}

This workaround isn’t really the best solution, as it leave unused code in your files, but until you get familiar with the wordpress tags it may be your best shot.

… Scott

Whoops … that would certainly help, thanks

https://wordpress.pastebin.com/JRZn568T

… Scott

@mmodic … BRILLIANT!

This too fixed it for me, THANK YOU!

… Scott

Nevermind ??

I found the solution … first I realized the pages don’t have an excerpt, so I just took the code from a default page.php file and added it in front of the code to pull in the posts.

… Scott

I tried that and got errors, but I just tried it again and noticed the errors indicated removing the files .

I renamed everything that had to do with w3 total cache … I can login now … Thanks.

I think there is a conflict with the theme and not something necessarily wrong with the w3 total cache plugin.

… Scott

I just noticed the popular posts section is not a widget, it’s coded into the sidebar.php.

What should I be looking for in the code to correct this.

Thanks