Mark Wilkinson

Sorry for the delay in response Mike. Perhaps take a look here:

https://github.com/wpmark/wpbasis/wiki

I am still in the process of getting some documentation together. It is essentially a utility plugin that I use on all sites I build. It locks things down, for client users as well as providing a host of template tags that I end up adding to every site I build.

I am looking to produce a Video Cast soon to help explain.

I have not used it myself but has good rating so why not give it ago. Best of luck!

Have you got a link that people can view the problem on – sometimes helps with a diagnosis?

There are plugins you can use to have content in two languages on the same site. Take a look in the WordPress plugin repository (plugins link in the menu above). Also this is one I have heard of recently:

https://babbleplugin.com

You could try placing this:

<?php wp_redirect( home_url() ); exit; ?>

into your themes attachment.php file. If it does’t exist just create it with the code above in and nothing else.

Take a look here:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_WordPress_Gallery#Step_4_.E2.80.93_Edit_Your_Gallery
Particularly the links to part.

Have you got a link that we could see the problem on please? May be able to help more then.

Perhaps some of the ideas here will help? – particularly the HTML5 option.

Is there a reason why you cannot use the normal category archive for that category, accessible at domain.com/category/gunsense ?

If you wanted to make that category display with 60 entries you could use the pre_get_posts filter.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/pre_get_posts

Oops I was being very dumb. Below is how to change the post labels for the Whistle post type:

/***************************************************************
* Function pxlcore_whistles_post_labels()
* Changes the post labels for the Whistles post type.
***************************************************************/
function pxlcore_whistles_post_labels( $labels ) {

	$labels->name = 'Snippets';
	$labels->singular_name = 'Snippet';
	$labels->menu_name = 'Snippets';
	$labels->admin_bar_name = 'Snippet';
	$labels->add_new = 'Add New';
	$labels->add_new_item = 'Add New Snippet';
	$labels->edit_item = 'Edit Snippet';
	$labels->new_item = 'New Snippet';
	$labels->view_item = 'View Snippet';
	$labels->search_items = 'Search Snippets';
	$labels->not_found = 'No snippets found';
	$labels->not_found_in_trash = 'No snippets found in trash';
	$labels->all_items = 'Snippets';

	return $labels;

}

add_filter( 'post_type_labels_whistle', 'pxlcore_whistles_post_labels' );

From my experience IIS7 and above support using Pretty Permalinks with no customisation needed, therefore I would contact your host and see if they can help with this issue.

Sounds to me like some of the code your site is loading is triggering a fatal error. I am not familiar with Web Matrix but I am guessing it has some error logs somewhere. Looking at those error logs will likely tell you which piece of code is causing the problem.

The best thing to do it access your hosting control panel (cPanel?) and create a ZIP file of your entire sites files (assuming they are not going to mega amount of gigabytes!). Download this and extract into the ‘devsite’ folder making sure the structure is the same.

Then take a backup of your database from your control panel, or from phpmyadmin on the export tab at the top.

Create a new database in MAMP and use the import tab at the top to import your database.

Now change the wp-config.php database connection details to your local database connection details.

Finely you need to run a search and replace on the database to find all the instances of the live URL and replace them with the local URL (with MAMP probably something like localhost:8888/devsite). This search and replace tool works a treat:

https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB

It may not help, but I was having a problem with Custom Post Types and capabilities, wanting certain users to not be able to see my Custom Post Type. I solved it here:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/custom-capability-for-custom-post-type?replies=4

Does your site work when the default (non pretty) permalinks are selected? Also what version of IIS is installed on the Windows server?