Redirected domain — now can’t access WordPress to fix

Hi there,
Do you have access to host panel?

Hi, it seems that your domain is parked. I’m thinking you did the redirect from GoDaddy? I would undo the redirect and add the IP of your host as an A record in the DNS manager. After your site is back up we can talk about setting up a redirect.

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

I checked the DNS record and it say parked. I changed that to my server address and that fixed it.

My thanks to you both, you saved me from an afternoon of day drinking. <grin>

Great, glad you were able to get it resolved ??

Do you still want help with setting up a redirect?

I’d welcome your input on the problem. Here’s what I’m trying to accomplish:

I’m hosting a podcast and want to have a blog along side. I want the user to land on the page seeing only the podcast posts. A menu item would filter the blog posts and another menu item will take them back to podcasts. That way I can dump everything into the blog without the user having to sort through it all.

The problem is when the user first enters the site. They see everything and it’s confusing.

Categories are the logical way to go, but either the theme or the podcast plug-in doesn’t accept categories. However, they both do tags.

Any ideas on how to accomplish that?

Hmmm, have you considered using shortcodes? There’s also a way to add categories to podcasts that I found for the plugin you’re using.

I saw that, but I have no idea how to use them. I did paste the code into the functions.php file, but it didn’t seem to take. There may be other functions.php files in other directories. I found mine in the includes directory.

How do shortcodes work and how do I utilize them?

Much thanks for your help.

It should be the functions.php file for the theme you’re using. Shortcodes pretty much allow you to easily embed (in this case) the podcast onto any page without having to code it into the site. You can check the documentation for the podcast plugin you’re using to learn more about using shortcodes with it.

Thank you!

BTW, is there a certain place to insert the shortcode in the PHP file? Plus, once it is in the correct place, how will I insert it into a page?

Thanks!

Hi, you don’t need to insert the shortcode directly into a PHP file you can embed it in a post. Take a look at this guide which explains it better. Hope it helps.