belindajohnstone

OK, I’m slowly figuring it out (found the settings page, sorted the image size)… but wondering if you could help me as I can’t seem to get the excerpt to show, here is the link to the site (second widget from the left).

I would like it to look like the widget next door, but I can’t get the read more link of excerpt to show up.

Thanks for your help,

Belinda

Ah, I see I had deleted my featured image… now it’s working, although I need it to be responsive, is there a way to have the image scale to 100%?

Do you mind sharing your solution… I’m struggling with this too.

Thanks!

Great thanks for your reply, I’m ready to dig.

I’ve just realised though, that the entries came from a php website and they were exported as a sql database, so wasn’t static as I had first thought.

Will I still require something like the link you provided?

Thanks,

Belinda

Thanks for the link… It’s a bit above my level though, I’d need a bit more of a step by step to even know where to start and where to put the <?php wp_insert_post( $post, $wp_error ); ?>.

I was thinking there might be a way for me to just insert a bunch of lines straight into an exported database from the site.

This isn’t twentytwelve, it’s for the great responsive theme , but may be useful to someone having trouble. I wanted to tidy the Apearance > Widget Area and change the order of my widgets to keep 3 existing widget areas together with a 4th one that I added.

So I unregistered the home page widgets and then added them back in with the extra one:

<?php
    /**
     * deregister widgets.
     */
function remove_some_widgets(){

	unregister_sidebar( 'home-widget-1' );
	unregister_sidebar( 'home-widget-2' );
	unregister_sidebar( 'home-widget-3' );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'remove_some_widgets', 11 );

/*Add widgets back in with one extra----------------------------*/   

function responsive_child_widgets_init() {
        register_sidebar(array(
            'name' => __('Home Widget 1', 'responsive'),
            'description' => __('Area 6 - sidebar-home.php', 'responsive'),
            'id' => 'home-1',
            'before_title' => '<div id="widget-title-one" class="widget-title-home"><h3>',
            'after_title' => '</h3></div>',
            'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget-wrapper %2$s">',
            'after_widget' => '</div>'
        ));

        register_sidebar(array(
            'name' => __('Home Widget 2', 'responsive'),
            'description' => __('Area 7 - sidebar-home.php', 'responsive'),
            'id' => 'home-2',
            'before_title' => '<div id="widget-title-two" class="widget-title-home"><h3>',
            'after_title' => '</h3></div>',
            'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget-wrapper %2$s">',
            'after_widget' => '</div>'
        ));

        register_sidebar(array(
            'name' => __('Home Widget 3', 'responsive'),
            'description' => __('Area 8 - sidebar-home.php', 'responsive'),
            'id' => 'home-3',
            'before_title' => '<div id="widget-title-three" class="widget-title-home"><h3>',
            'after_title' => '</h3></div>',
            'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget-wrapper %2$s">',
            'after_widget' => '</div>'
        ));

        register_sidebar(array(
            'name' => __('Home Widget 4', 'responsive'),
            'description' => __('Area 9 - sidebar-home.php', 'responsive'),
            'id' => 'home-4',
            'before_title' => '<div id="widget-title-four" class="widget-title-home"><h3>',
            'after_title' => '</h3></div>',
            'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget-wrapper %2$s">',
            'after_widget' => '</div>'
        ));

    }

    add_action('widgets_init', 'responsive_child_widgets_init');

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And if you want sidebars on the side, just use one of the other templates and just insert your content into the home page yourself. There are so many layouts to choose from… it’s brilliant!

Hi, when I try to backup the database before changing prefix, no email comes to me. My email is correct, have checked spam, just not arriving. Any thoughts? or anyone else experiencing the same?

Ugh update:
oops checked trash instead of spam… gmail hid my spam folder. Found the emails, working like a dream, just wish they wouldn’t go to spam.

Thanks.

thanks @wekking & @sonnythao I tried your solution and it worked…

1. Logged into my self hosted WordPress blog.
2. Clicked on Posts.
3. Clicked on an existing post.
4. Clicked the Screen Options button in the upper-right corner > Checked the Excerpt box. (You only do this once and then all other posts should have the Excerpt field show up.)
5. Went to the Excerpt field and just enter a space.
6. Clicked Settings > Sharing.
7. Dragged in the social media services into the Live Preview area > Save Changes.
8. Voila! Your post has the social media buttons!

Same problem as @ecabral and <?php echo sharing_display(); ?> isn’t showing anything??

Any suggestions?

Cheers,

Belinda

OK, Thanks, I have now changed my strategy completely then… While the above technique seemed to work at first, the gallery images were not imported as thumbnails, the sizing was all wrong.

I did a second test importing through phpMyAdmin and images are still attached to posts and galleries are still in place.

And I left all paths as absolute.

Thanks Esmi

OK, I could change to https://newsite.com/wp-content/uploads/…

But isn’t it better to reduce the dns lookups?

Really? works perfectly.

I been having the same problem, but just spent some time doing a test import, this time I did not copy the uploads folder via FTP before the import, amazingly it worked.

The images are all still attached to each post, and you just have to replace the contents of the uploads via ftp afterwards and they all appear exactly as they should.

As all my images were in galleries, the other thing I did to ensure the path would be correct is I did a search and replace on the xml file for https://mysite.com/wp-content/uploads/ and replaced with /wp-content/uploads/

Hope this help.

I’m happy, it’s my first solution I’ve posted.

Thank you… I have just unchecked the boxes in behaviour, 2 were checked, ajax and the mini calendar one. But after making that change, the pop up has disappeared, but won’t open at all.

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