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Otto,

Thanks for the reply and the link. That was it! I never knew I could update the screen options. Thanks so much for an easy fix!

Ah, nevermind – I figured it out!

Here’s how;

I went to my theme’s stylesheet and discovered that the z-index for my navbar was set higher than the z-index for my login panel (found in the style.css for BP Sliding Login Panel Plugin). I changed it so the z-index on the plugin would be higher than the z-index on the navbar. This “tells’ the panel to stack on top of the navbar.

Hope this helps anyone in the same situation!

Yup, that did it!

Thank you SOOO much Parkstreet! I would have been lost in this for months without your help. ??

Let me know if you ever need help with anything (anything other than WordPress that is!).

Thanks again!
amy

Yes & No. Yes it does populate the page with 50 post titles. However, it pulls them from multiple categories, despite which category you’re viewing.
At first I thought this might be b/c it was ‘forcing’ 50 posts per page even if the particular category only had, say 10 posts. So I changed the code to display only 5 and tested it again (going to the Apple category), and oddly enough, none of the five posts showing where labeled within the Apple category. It seems to work as a ‘random posts’ feature. Unless I did something wrong?
??

Wow! That worked like a charm!

https://capecodbranding.com/blog/category/apple/

I have one more question (promise only one!), is there a way to set it so more than 3 articles show per page? I was thinking of maybe a list of 50.

Thanks again,
amy

Only on this page. I noticed that the titles are much bigger than on other pages. The rest of the text is fine, I’d just like to make the titles smaller so they don’t run off the edge into my sidebar.

Perfect! Now a category redirects here;

https://capecodbranding.com/blog/category/apple/

Any way to make the font smaller? I couldn’t find any font size html in the code.

Thanks, thanks, thanks!

Hi Parkstreet,

Thanks for all the time you are devoting to my problem. It means a lot to me. ??

I’ve made the changes you suggested. I haven’t changed it back yet, even though it doesn’t appear to do what we’d hoped. The articles still show in full text, then when you click on the title it goes to just the title.

Does this teach us what the next step should be?

Thanks!
amy

Ok, I know where those are coming from; Articles is a page we created, but it’s actually called ‘posts’ in the permalink (it was renamed as Articles recently to be more descriptive and the permalink stayed the original name). Also, “Sorted by Category” is a child page of Posts (Articles). We update those pages ourselves because we couldn’t find a category widget that broke down the categories into sections by date or topic. The problem is that we have a hard time keeping it up-to-date and error-free and it would be great to find an option that is automated.

I went back and looked at my permalinks and found I had entered “post/category” for the Category Base. I’m not sure now why I did that, I’ve made so many changes the last couple of days my head is spinning… Anyway, I removed it and now my categories direct to;

https://capecodbranding.com/blog/category/apple/

Still in full article format, so it didn’t change anything over how it was before (other than it now goes to where it should w/o any of my manually added pages in the link). So now I just need to find a way to have my articles show title only when they come up in the category list.

Thanks again for all the help!

OK! Here is what I did;

1. reinstalled my theme (bluebird) and replaced the new stylesheet with my old one. Added all my images back in and added my favicon back to the header.php.
2. Changed the 301 redirect code on my .htaccess file to the code Parkstreet gave me (from earlier in this thread).
3. Enabled my .htaccess files by renaming them back to “.htaccess” (yesterday I had renamed them to disable).
4. Activated WP-Cumulus and put the widget back in my sidebar.

Now my categories work, and no error message! Yay!

Just one more question, @parkstreet, you found a link structure yesterday that pulled up a category page that had all my articles in list form. As it stands now, when you click a category it pulls up the full articles. Is it an easy fix to get the list of posts to show instead?

Thanks so much to everyone for all of their help!!!

amy

@iridiax I renamed the .htaccess files (both root and blog). However, I think I’ll need to fix my ‘other’ problem, the error on the cat pages, first before I’ll know what I’m up against. Thanks for the assistance, hopefully I’ll get it figured out tonight. ??

@parkstreet The theme I’m using didn’t have a category.php file to begin with. I’ve checked my backup copy, AND downloaded a fresh copy from the designer…. no category.php. Since it didn’t have one initially, do I need one now (I know that may be a silly question) and if I do need one, is there a ‘standard’ version I can add to my theme. I’m not sure if that is the kind of thing I can just find in a universal format and add?

Thanks again!

No, the 301 redirect is code that I entered into the .htaccess file manually last year. I googled to find the bit of code I’d need. I guess I didn’t realize I could have WP generate for me. Should I use the code you posted instead?

Looks like I’ve made my problem worse. I’m not sure what I’ve done in the last couple hours to make my category pages display the error that they are…
I followed the trail in the error (wp-content/themes/bluebird/category.php) however, I don’t have a category.php file in that theme (bluebird).

Stumped. Still. ??

Thanks ParkStreet!

I had to access my .htaccess file through my hosting company (iPower). I can’t remember if there is a way to see it from wordpress (and in my FTP the file is blank). Here is what I got from it;

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.capecodbranding.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ https://capecodbranding.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

This is the only thing I see when I open it… not sure if there is supposed to be more.

Thanks, amy

Hi Parkstreet,
Sure can, there are quite a few…

PlugIns;

Add to Any
Akismet
All in One SEO
Author Exposed
Google Analytics for WordPress
Similarity
WordPress.com Popular Posts
WordPress.com Stats
WordPress.com Stats Helper
WordPress Admin Bar
WP-phpMyAdmin
Wptouch iPhone Theme

Since this morning I have deactivated WP-Cumulus and Collapsible Archive Widget (since I wasn’t sure if either were causing a problem).

My Widgets are;

Recent Posts
Popular Posts
Links
Blog Stats (via WordPress.com Stats Helper)
and the WordPress Categories widget that comes preinstalled

Plus a few Text widgets with Adsense and Feedburner code in them.

I’m trying to take iridaix’s advice and change my .htaccess to remove the 301 redirect I added. However that was almost a year ago and I don’t remember how I did it, so I’m looking for my htaccess file. I’m not very technical, so I apologize if my questions and problems are very basic. ??

Thanks!
amy

Hi iridiax,

I have deleted the one category widget I was using (WP-Cumulus), I don’t have anything in the Category base in the permalink settings and the only thing I have ever added to my .htaccess is a 301 redirect.
I enabled the standard category widget that came with WP so I can still test my categories.
When I click on one of my categories I’m still getting a blank white page (that has my header logo on it). Do you still see an Internal Errors message?

Thanks for the help,
amy