craigjross

Can you see your new WordPress site from your browser or are you still doing setup in the hosting area?

Works perfectly.
Thank you for taking the time to help me with this problem, alchymyth.

I am putting this site together to help people in my local community connect with each other, share ideas and to seek support in building collaborative learning projects. Your help puts me one step closer to making the project a reality.

Will do, Rob.

Thanks, Chip.

I’ve been doing some homework and found SSI. Server Side Includes for html. Such as;
<!–#include file=”included.html” –>
This stuff is so cool.

@usubba
That is a great explanation. Thanks for taking the time to spell it out for me. Can the same approach be applied to straight up html/css sites that dont include php? the reason I ask is that I dont know php yet and would like to get familiar with this way of developing as I start to learn the php side of things.

@esmi
Thanks so much for the link. I will be having a long look at theme development. I think that I will learn a lot from reading this.

The best video guide I have ever seen on installing wordpress onto mamp. Actually it is onto mamp pro but it is still the same from what I can tell. Let me know what you think. https://youtu.be/-2UFNAJGCV8

Any luck with this yet. Is it a 500 error or a 404? I once changed the site name in the admin of wordpress and screwed some things up in the process. Even when I changed it back things still didn’t work. I had inadvertently changed the title in the database in the process and had to edit one of the tables to fix the problem.

Solve my own problem. Changed ?php echo esc_url( home_url( '/' ) to ?php echo esc_url( home_url( 'events/upcoming/' ) Site title now links to the desired page in the site. Awesome.

I found the link that helped me with the php.ini memory_limit issue. Remember though that I am working on a localhost. Even so it will give you a clue as to what you are looking for on the host. link to mamp doc

The first thing I always do if I see a problem with pages is refresh the permalinks by hitting the save button. Set them to Postname.

When I had the problem it was with a pro upgrade from fromidable forms to pro. The following is the response I got from their moderator.

Most likely, you have installed enough plugins that your memory limit has been exceeded. You will need to increase the memory_limit in your php.ini to 64M or 96M. If you’re not sure where to find this file or how to change it, please contact your webhost for help.
It might also work to add this to your wp-config.php:

define(‘WP_MEMORY_LIMIT’, ’96M’);

Sorry. I have been looking for better info on this but can’t seem to find what I had. From this information I did a google search and found more complete information.

I had the same type of thing when uploading a plugin a few weeks ago. Turned out that the memory associated with such things was set too low. I had to adjust it in the php.ini file. At least I think that was what it was called. Mind you I was testing on a local host so it was easy to mess with it. I changed the memory setting from 32 to 64 and tried again. It worked. If you like you can take a look at your memory_limit in phpinfo and see if it is 32. if it is you may have to change it. If you still have problems I can dig up more info for you. I will follow this thread and check back.

Hi rob.
That wasn’t my actual problem. I didn’t quite understand the permalink thing but managed to muddle my way through that part ok. But thanks for suggesting that first because I think that one trips most people up too.

The reason that I couldn’t find a way to get the plugin to connect to the front end of the site was because the information about the SLUG, in – Appearance>Menu, wasn’t showing in my admin. I realised that the plugin did not pull these fields onto the page by default so I went to “screen options”, at the top of the page and clicked the appropriate checkboxes. Then I was able to proceed with the setup.

I have never front-ended a plugin this way before and I was looking for a form ID=xx to copy/paste into a page. The whole custom menu thing threw me right off but somehow I managed to ass that one as well.

Hope this info helps others.

Front-ended is totally a word as of now.