webbrewers

The path you’re using to the logo is incorrect. It’s missing the directory – find the image and copy the full path.
This is completely invalid css and won’t do anything:
... url(images/VESCO-EGYPT-LOGO.jpg)
If you want to make the logo a background to the header element it should be:
header {background:url(/images/imagename.jpg) no-repeat;}
Again the image file path has to be correct.

The only files WP is going to look for are the hosted files in your hosting account. Unless you are using your local machine as a server with WP installed, local files are irrelevant.
The only required file needed for a child theme is the stylesheet with the exact bits noted in the documentation and located in:
wp-content/themes/parenttheme-child
I’d get that working and make sure the child theme stylesheet is active first. Be very careful with functions.php – unlike other files (eg page templates) you only need to ADD additional functions to that file. These will run in conjunction with the parent functions file. Any errors in that file will break the site.

Follow this:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes

Most themes provide an option to add a logo. If that’s not there, replace:

<h1>" class="logo"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></h1>
<h2><?php bloginfo('description');?></h2>

With:

<img src="yourlogo.jpg" />

Copy the embed code not the link and it should work.

I figured out it was a snippet of code left in the wp-config file by the W3 Total Cache plug in. When I removed that pretty permalinks started working again.
This was the problem:

** Enable W3 Total Cache Edge Mode */
define('W3TC_EDGE_MODE', true); // Added by W3 Total Cache

Thanks Mike, for your fast response to my question. I had already done what you suggested but what I didn’t realize when I posted the question was the site owner had also updated the site theme and tinkered with some settings which triggered the incompatibility.
I was able to revert and all is well now.

I give up – now all line breaks/paragraphs are arbitrarily getting removed. Loved WordPress but it’s becoming too unstable – I’m moving a bunch of sites elsewhere.

My host is on 5.5 but I dialed it back to 5.4 – no difference. Since I am able to save/publish some posts, I’ve a feeling there’s some database corruption involved, possibly from the WP auto updates which can be troublesome. I did do a repair and optimize on the db without any effect.

Yep…not a good sign. I was just able to change and publish one post and it shows published 6/6/15…

It seems to be working on another host. Also, I was able to save a draft of one post and then publish successfully so it seems to be a problem for certain posts only. If I copy the content of a broken post over to a new post though, it doesn’t save and has the same bug.

I’m curious what host you are using and what version of php? I also noticed that dates are getting recorded incorrectly. I was able to save changes to post titles on 6/8, but the last modified date shows 6/6.

this is ridiculous – there has to be some fix for this. Now I get this when I save (I’m the only user and admin):
Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/post.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Thanks Tara. I already did start another thread. Normally I wouldn’t piggyback on another thread but when the symptoms are very similar and the same troubleshooting has already been done I think it may help uncover the root cause.
Adding define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false); didn’t work.

Same problem – posts not saving and redirecting to /wp-admin/post.php (page not found).
This is on multiple sites.
Deactivated all plug ins
Changed to default theme
Updated to 4.2.2