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My idea is to use an FTP program to get your theme’s functions.php file, then use the wp_set_password() function and re up load it with your chosen password. See the codex on how to use that function. Then once you’ve tried to log in, (it won’t work at first, because it resets it and logs you out every time if I remember correctly), but at least the password will be changed. Then try re uploading the functions.php file without the wp_set_password() function and your password should be reset. This has worked for me once. The only risk is that it will not work and mess stuff up. You could also try resetting it in the database if wordpress.com lets you get to the database. If they do there are instructions on how to do it if you look for it on google. Those are my two ideas, but both are risky because it’s really easy to completely mess everything up by accident if you aren’t familiar with php or sql.

Thank you for your reply. Actually, I just now found something that worked.

After I initially started having password issues I used wp_set_password() in functions.php to try to change it. I forgot to delete it. After I deleted it the password worked again. (otherwise it will reset the password and take you back to the login screen every time, but it just looks like the password is simply disappearing when you try to enter it)

So problem eventually solved I guess. It seems like every time I have a problem, it will eventually get solved, but first I gotta spend an hour or two being extremely frustrated. I still have no idea why the password stopped working in the first place.

Thanks for your suggestions! I wouldn’t have tried using wp_set_password in the first place if not for your reply.

It’s a local instillation, the live site has no password issues, just the copy on my hard drive. I’ve tried using PHPmyadmin to reset the password, I’ve tried switching themes, I tried creating a new user in the database, and I’ve tried using wp_set_password(‘sesame’,1); in functions.php, nothing seems to work! Sigh… if there is no other ideas it looks like I’ll have to make another backup copy of the site with a new database.. ??
What could have caused this? And WHY is nothing working!? It seems like the things I tried should work! ??

not really, seems to work fine for me

Category is just a way to organize your posts. If you aren’t going to do a lot of tutorials, making pages is probably fine. I don’t know if there is a way to change the avatar. When I visit the site, for me it shows up at the top of the page so it looks like it is working, might be a browser setting or something.

If you do have custom menus enabled, you can put a page under a sub page by dragging it beneath and to the right of the top level page. The point of custom menus is just to give more control over the pages than the default. If you are posting your art tutorials, i’d recommend considering making a category instead of pages if you are going to be posting a lot of them.

Maybe you have custom menus set. Try going to appearance->menus and adding the page there.

NEVERMIND I found the problem. The data was being overwritten during autosave. Funny how I can be stuck for 1-2 hours, then post a question, then find the answer like 2 minutes after I posted the question. All I gotta do is not save stuff when doing auto save.

Here is a link in case anyone else has a similar problem and finds this.

https://techwithketan.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/auto-save-problem-for-custom-variables/

I just want something like that which links to an theme archive page or something like it for a custom post type. I tried to make an archive-{posttype}.php file and get a link to it using get_post_type_archive_link(‘posttype’) but it’s not working.

Thanks for the reply! I’m pretty new to doing this stuff. I haven’t seen $(init) before, but any initialization stuff shouldn’t be a problem because the script is after the div, right? Well anyway it’s not being overridden by anything, I tried a seperate div but it had the same issue, jQuery is loaded, and what is weird is that solid colors work but .jpg images don’t. Is there anything else that could possibly be causing this problem? There are no other java script libraries or plug-ins or scripts either in the page yet so far.