Dave Naylor

You don’t have to delete anything. Go to:

Dashboard -> Appearance -> Menus

Select your menu, select the categories tab, add to the menu.

Here’s a screenshot, with added big pink arrows ??

https://screencloud.net/v/EJrq

The last step in the process is the one that actually does the overwriting the base stylesheet.

That’s right.

how could one change the “entry-meta” text color without using the “!important” declaration?

Are you able to post the URL of the site?

I can create a new child of TwentyFourteen and easily change the colour using your block of CSS but without the !important declaration. There must be something else in play at your site.

The CSS in the child theme does override the CSS in the parent theme only if the !important tag is used which is why the !important tag comes into play. Without that tag, the child theme CSS will NOT override that of the parent theme’s.

That’s completely untrue.

From the How to Create a Child Theme codex page:

Note: The child theme’s stylesheet is included after the parent theme’s and styles will therefore override those in the parent theme’s stylesheet

That aside, the !important declaration shouldn’t be used reactively. You’re hitting CSS with a sledgehammer to solve a small issue.

That’s a style sheet, not a footer.php file.

If you’re going to post code, please place it between backticks or using the handy button in the editor. If you want to post large amounts of code, use https://pastebin.com or similar and post the link to the URL.

Are there any documents I could read online to help understand what I need to do to make this happen?

I like pointing people to here:

https://learn.shayhowe.com/html-css/

A quick Google search suggests that this may be a sign of a compromised site. If you didn’t create rrr.php or a link to it, then you should obviously be concerned. I’d proceed on the basis that someone has attempted to break into your site and I’d start with reading this codex page:

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

Very strange. How about setting up a new WordPress install on a sub-domain or in a sub-directory. Maybe even just renaming the current site directory and creating a new directory using the old name, then the hosting will be the same. Create a new DB and just carry out a conventional install.

If all goes well, we know your LAMP stack is AOK and that it’s something to do with your current WordPress install.

Why are you immediately editing the password? Can’t you just use --user_pass=<password> when creating the user with wp-cli?

If you’ve simply created the pages by calling them by the names of your categories, WordPress doesn’t know to put your posts in there. Look at your Games page for instance, I see you’ve used the default page template. So that just wants you to add content in the page editor, there’s no built in loop for your games category posts.

You could create category menu items rather than pages in your menu. You’d do that by adding category items from the menu editor. Alternatively, you could create custom page templates for the pages you’ve created and use a custom loop on each.

How about using wp-cli to create a brand new user with admin rights?

wp user create ...etc

OK, I have to ask because I’ve done this myself a few times. Are you editing the right database?

Like this:

if ( is_page( 25 ) ) {

// do stuff

}

Have you tried from a different browser, device, machine?

Looks like you didn’t add the function in the right place. Remove the function its_branding() and add this new one where I’ve indicated. I amended it a little from the original:

https://gist.github.com/WPRanger/88e0eabb3ff3d3881378

If you have access to phpmyadmin, select the wp_usermeta table and then find your user ID within it. You’ll see a meta_key of edit_post_per_page with a meta_value of 999. Edit to show a lower number such as the default 20.

If your hosts have wp-cli installed it’s even easier. In the terminal inside your WordPress installation, type the command:

wp user meta update <your user ID> edit_post_per_page <your desired lower number>