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I tripped over a similar post where deactivating your plugins would fix this “Oops! That page can’t be found” error.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/oops-page-not-found-box?replies=22

Many “unplugged” and fixed problems, some were not helped, this now includes me. I deactivated every single one of my plugins and still suffered the same old problem, “Cain’t find that page.”

Again, if anyone with a success story I’d sure like to hear it. But then I was thinking of coding my own theme from the bottom up. But that could be weeks!

Argh!

Thanks for Cory for your input. I greatly appreciate that.

It turns out that those links in the footer were created by me. First by initializing them in the Functions.php and then in the menus created.

Funny thing was that WP added additional https:// prefixes to my link addresses. Once I removed those things worked fine.

The stranger thing is the hand coded links by me in my article and news pages. Localhost/wordpress was rightly replaced by your plugin, another great feature, yet for some reason don’t work when clicked directly in the page in which they exist.

However, when these same pages are found using WP’s search feature, the WP generated links work just fine. I just checked the search results’ generated links and they are the same as my hand coded ones. WordPress links work, mine don’t.

Go figure. Yet another mystery. LOL

Cory,

I put up the site last night. Your DUPLICATOR plugin is amazing. It worked when nothing else would. I had the techs erase the “web” folder 3 times, the last time being the last because the site came right up. I FTPed whole files and folders, created a new mysql database and none of that worked. The techs didn’t know what they were doing either. One had the temerity to question my coding. LOL.

If I recall correctly rather than “localhost” which is the first info box to filled I had to change to path to mysql database would be copied to. I went through every username and password I had and failed until I changed database location.

I intend to bookmark your “QuickStart” page for future use.

So you get the Golden “Attaboy” Award. Anyone who is frustrated with installing a WP site should check out your plugin.

I may purchase the “Pro” version for the next job.

Thanks again Cory.

If you have any input/help on the following issue it would be appreciated:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/localhostswordpress-links-broken?replies=4

One thing I just observed is that Search results links do work and take me to the news articles I mentioned above. Just saying in case someone can help me to correct this bug.

Thanks for the reply, Skopelo.

I currently have the Permalinks set to “post” as you suggest.

All I did was after the creation of my article pages was to preview my work and then click “publish.” That’s all. Ever since then, being a noobie (to Word Press not HTML/CSS), I thought that the fact that I couldn’t view them after that was just the way it was and I would be able to view them once installed to my production server.

I was mistaken.

As I looked into the cause I found the problem with Permalinks and changed the settings to “plain” and was able to view my site again except for the “localhost/wordpress” links to my very plain vanilla HTML documents that contained little more than <h3> and <p> tags with the occasional href link. There was no JS/JQuery added and all the formatting CSS was in the style.css file.

Another thing is that there are about 10 href links in the footer that don’t work either and I have no idea why.

The site is now live on the Internet thanks to Duplicator and as you can imagine I’m anxious to get it working as it should.

That’s what I was thinking, I’m having the hosting company’s installation erased right now.

What threw me a curve yesterday was manipulating the Installer.php file from the address bar (eg. threestrikes.org/installer.php). I got stuck at having already installed a database before the Manipulator files.

I’ll try again tonight or tomorrow.

I was right! I was right!

It is a super-secret class that the javascript writes only when the header is sticky/stuck. And its name is: “.wrapfixed.”

I tried writing height:45px; into the .myfixed css class with the other values but it wouldn’t take.

So I guess I have to wait for you to get back on the clock Monday.

Please advise.

TIA.

I’ve almost got it. Honest I’ve worked hours on this and I’m really stuck.

These are all of my settings, many aided by Firefox’s “Inspect Element.”

.myfixed { margin:0 auto!important; float:none!important; border:0px!important; background:none!important; max-width:100%!important; } .myfixed .main-navigation{margin-top:15px; margin-left:150px;} .myfixed .hd-search{position: absolute; height: 0; width: 0; overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden;} .myfixed{height:100px!important;} .myfixed .header_image {transform:scale(0.68); margin-top:-40px;} .myfixed .main-navigation ul li {width:135px;} .myfixed .main-navigation{margin-left:234px; margin-top: -117px;} .myfixed .wrapfixed{height:45px; position:static; top:-100px; width:100%;}

Using Inspect Element I can get the fixed, sticky version to appear properly with a height of 45px. The class “.wrapfixed” is the class to which I made that change for height, but when I put it into myfixed css class it would not take.

WHY!!!!???? Argh.

Is there yet some super secret class that is hidden even from Inspect Element?

Your help welcome and appreciated.

Consternated in California,
TECombs, DMD

I corrected my mistake in the last bit of CSS to .myfixed .header_image{transform:scale(.68)} and got it to resize just right. Now to move it down some with margin-top, I’ve tried every size 1px to 125px and even negative values but I still have an immensely header height (2x)rather than the 45px I’d like to stuff everything in.

Just so you know, I’ve tried a number of CSS tricks to get things to cooperate and was successful only at making the Search box disappear. The oddest I’ve ever seen is that the header grows twice its height when sticky. Funky.

Here’s my code:
.myfixed { margin:0 auto!important; float:none!important; border:0px!important; background:none!important; max-width:100%!important; } .myfixed .main-navigation{float:center; margin-top:15px; margin-left:150px;} .myfixed .hd-search{position: absolute; height: 0; width: 0; overflow: hidden; visibility: hidden;} .myfixed{height:100px!important;} .myfixed .header-img{transform:0.68;}

I scooped up this kill routine from LearnWebCode. It stomps and kills thoroughly and completely just about any stubborn “whatever” that doesn’t respond to low level efforts.

.your class-here {
position: absolute;
height: 0;
width: 0;
overflow: hidden;
visibility: hidden;
}

I resolved this with a function that writes not only to the sidebar but also to the footer. The code is in my list of favorites.

I resolved this alright, I got a refund. Poor support.

That’s interesting. Apparently you can make PHP do most anything. I’ll add that to what the other guy added earlier in the week.

I discovered that I have to have written text to have name, address, etc., picked up by SEO.