csleh

thank you, that does indeed work! and I feel silly for not trying it.

nevermind. it was a css issue although I don’t know how or why and it’s fixed now.

my own custom theme. started with underscores, added some custom post types.

Same issue, pressing save fixed (whew!). Here is the code I used:

<?php
  $terms = get_terms('members-cats', 'orderby=count&hide_empty=0&parent=0');
  if ( !empty( $terms ) && !is_wp_error( $terms ) ){
  foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
     $term = sanitize_term( $term, 'members-cats' );
     $term_link = get_term_link( $term, 'members-cats' );
      echo '<h3><a href="' . esc_url( $term_link ) . '">' . $term->name . '</a></h3>';
  }
  }
?>

that works perfectly, thank you!

Both of these solutions
<article class="th<?php echo $counter++; ?>">
<article class="th<?php echo $counter; ?>">
result in a number 0. I’m looking for 1, 2 or 3.

Yes, always just one article, always the same one (it’s pulling from a custom field on a different page). It can be either before the first loop or after the last, whichever is easiest.

ah, I took out a line when stripping out extraneous, that’s why the end bracket seemss wrong. This is the actual code

<?php $counter = 0; ?>
<?php if(have_posts()) : while(have_posts()) : the_post();
  if (($post->post_parent) ) {
          continue;
      } else { ?>
 <?php $counter++;  ?>
<article class="th<?php echo $counter; ?> m1">
	<?php // reset counter if 3 has been reached
		if ($counter==3){
		$counter=0;
		} ?>
<!-- stuff with posts happens here-->
</article>
<?php } endwhile; endif;
?>
<article class="th<?php echo $counter; ?> m1">
<!-- other stuff with this special post from elsewhere-->
</article>

thanks. What I’ve got now is a list of all categories as a link and lower on the page is the start of showing all posts alphabetically, with “previous” to load more posts. It works, but I was hoping to give the visitor an option, like “here is the list of categories but if you click here you can see all posts listed alphabetically instead”. It seems to require making a “page” or “post” so I can get a url to link to because this page is either/or since they are 2 approaches to the same archive/category template.

This is the current:

Fruit Categories
 - apples
 - oranges
Or view all Posts in Fruit
    - jonagold
    - navel
    - red delicious
    - tangerine
    - etc for hundreds of posts

Goal:

Fruit Categories
 - apples
 - oranges
or click to view a list of all posts in fruit

thanks for answering. It’s a custom theme with plenty of custom templates, I thought maybe there was an easy way to give visitors an option to view posts by category OR to view all posts alphabetically and I got stuck exactly on a link to what like you mention.

I guess the only option is to create an empty post and have an if statement like “if is this post, show a list of all posts in this category alphabetically”.

It works! Not sure what it was but thanks for trying to help so quickly.

wait, it started working but without showing the parent. this bit of messy code shows the parent as a heading then lists children

<?php $parent = get_the_title($post->post_parent);
	if  (is_page() && $post->post_parent ) { ?>
<h4><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->post_parent) ?>"><?php echo $parent;?></a></h4>
		<?php } ?>
<?php if($post->post_parent)
  $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."");
  if ($children) { ?>
  <ul><?php echo $children; ?></ul>
  <?php } ?>

I forgot to mark this as resolved. I still don’t know why the database borked or the admin email changed, but the other problems were fixed when I added a new admin and used that profile.

So except for noting that quick access to the database in case of lockout is a good idea, I would recommend this plugin for when replacement of everything is preferable to regular import. I’m especially impressed with your responses here and attempts to help. Thank you!

turns out there was something wrong with my user settings, so I created a new user and am able to see the visual edit again.

I don’t know. The posts/pages/media moved and the advanced custom fields are all in place. It looks like some other info in database is untouched (like form fields) but some is suddenly gone (like an add-on to those form fields).

Now the visual editor and extended toolbar are gone. I don’t know what’s related to moving or something else.

The development server is not windows but the new server is. I’m suspecting something is funny on this windows server and that may be the root of all issues, including the database mess up on migration–although the user email changing doesn’t make sense for any issue.

I believe the problem was mainly that the admin email was changed — the same username was used on both old and import site but neither had the email address it changed to.

Then the new theme had a problem and I couldn’t get a password reset because of the incorrect email.
After I was able to set up a new admin in mysql I could get back in, and found that import/rewrite had worked.

Did not exhaust google skills after all!

I had to switch to if not empty. so this works:

<?php
    	$topic_tags = get_sub_field('topic_related_tags');
    	$topic_post = get_sub_field('related_post');
    	$topic_page = get_sub_field('related_page');
	 if (!empty($topic_tags) || !empty($topic_post) || !empty($topic_page )) {
			echo '<h4>My title</h4>';
			} ?>