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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to change the default icon of Custom Post TypeSet the
menu_icon
key. If you want to use the in-built icon font, you can find the available icons on this page. The value will be the name of the relevant icon (e.g.dashicons-format-aside
).Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Please help! Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'It looks like you may already have removed the offending code, but my guess is that the error arose because the person in that support thread included an opening
<?php
tag, and you copied that tag intofunctions.php
.In fact,
functions.php
already has an opening<?php
tag, and unless it has been closed (with?>
), putting another opening tag after it will lead to a syntax error.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: post IDWhen you edit a post or page, the URL contains a string that looks like this:
post.php?post=123&action=edit
. The number after?post=
is the ID.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Adding Metadata to Images files for Uploads on Different SitesThis is already part of the core. WordPress automatically populates the caption field with the IPTC caption abstract or, if it is absent, the EXIF image description. (I believe it works in that order, but you can verify this through testing.)
Your success in using this will depend on the file type.
It will work fine if you are using JPEG files, and there are various ways of going about it: e.g. if you use Windows, you can just right-click on an image and add your desired caption to the “title” field (like this, which leads to this). The title field corresponds to the EXIF image description.
I have not tested this with PNG files, but I suspect it will not work with PNG. That is because the standard PNG specification does not allow for the embedding of EXIF or IPTC information. (Some software stores metadata in PNG files in a similar way, but as I say, it’s not part of the PNG specification.)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Change Post Type Without Using Plugin or Coding?I see no reason to be so resistant to using a plugin.
First, without looking at which plugins are available, it seems to me that a plugin of this nature would be very lightweight. Whatever your concerns about “bogging the site down”, not all plugins are equal in that respect.
Secondly, regardless of how lightweight the plugin is, you don’t need to leave it activated permanently. I assume you would be able simply to install the plugin, convert the pages, then uninstall the plugin.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: I crashed my site and nothing is working(1) If you are having difficulties accessing your site through FTP, you should contact your host: that’s not a WordPress issue. In the meantime, one possibility is to use the file manager built into CPanel (or whichever interface your host uses).
(2) As for the particular problem you are experiencing …
I tried putting a code in the backend of my site
… you will need to be more specific if you need help on how to fix it.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Body of post not displaying in Facebook previewWhen a page is shared on Facebook for the first time, Facebook “scrapes” the URL in order to fetch information like titles, descriptions and images. It then caches what it finds.
When Facebook last attempted to scrape your posts for information, it seems your Facebook sharing settings were not properly configured: Facebook was being told, incorrectly, that the description for each post was the word “Related”.
I have re-scraped the last couple of posts for you. In other words, I have cleared the relevant part of Facebook’s cache. They should now display properly. You can test them to confirm this.
If you are experiencing the same problem for any other pages on your site, enter them into Facebook’s URL linter, select “Debug”, then select “Fetch new scrape information”.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Read more tagsIt looks like you’re using a commercial theme. We don’t support commercial products on these forums. If you’re having difficulties, you need to seek support from the theme developer.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: "Update" from edit screen republished postIt looks like your site is hosted at WordPress.com. These forums only provide support for self-hosted www.remarpro.com installations. See more about the difference here.
In order to ask for help, you need to go WordPress.com support.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Load different headers based on post parent categoryConditional statements work sequentially. If the
if
statement returnstrue
, then theelseif
andelse
statements are ignored. This is because they are alternatives: they are only tested if the earlier condition is not met. Hence the term “else”.If you want the second condition to have priority, you need to make it the first condition.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: site_url is returning the site title.site_url
is not a valid value forbloginfo()
. See also the documentation. You should be using eitherhome_url()
orbloginfo('url')
.Forum: Hacks
In reply to: if metdata is checked not workingThe value of
$gallery
is not boolean. That is, it does not evaluate astrue
orfalse
. You can see this by ticking a checkbox and simply echoing$gallery
. You should see that its value is1
.You should be able to achieve the desired result simply by removing
== true
from theif
statement. That is, use something like:if($gallery) : echo 'Show in gallery'; else : echo 'Don't show in gallery'; endif;
Broadly speaking,
if($variable)
will return a positive result if the value is not false and not zero. A more precise explanation can be found in the PHP manual.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Feature image not posting on FacebookWhen a page is shared on Facebook for the first time, Facebook “scrapes” the URL in order to fetch information like titles, descriptions and images. It then caches what it finds. When Facebook last attempted to scrape your pages for information, your website was down. It therefore could not fetch any data.
I have re-scraped those two pages for you. In other words, I have cleared the relevant part of Facebook’s cache. They should now display properly.
If you are experiencing the same problem for any other pages on your site, enter them into Facebook’s URL linter, select “Debug”, then select “Fetch new scrape information”.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Critical error! Tried to change the domain and now I can't login!No, the
functions.php
file should be in the directory of your active theme, which in this case is/bizznis
. Here it is in a fresh installation of the theme.If you are using a child theme (I cannot tell because your site is currently down), you might want to check the directory of both the child theme and the parent theme.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Critical error! Tried to change the domain and now I can't login!Contrary to jpm123’s advice (though it was given in good faith), I would advise not using the “Edit wp-config.php” method. As the Codex page states, this hardcodes the values into the site and disables the backend settings page. This may create more complications later on.
Use the “Edit functions.php” method instead. This involves the following steps:
(1) Access your site using FTP, then go to
/wp/themes/bizznis
.(2) Download the
functions.php
file, open it in a text editor, and add these as new lines:update_option( 'siteurl', 'https://www.centraliahighalumni.com/Home' ); update_option( 'home', 'https://www.centraliahighalumni.com/Home' );
(3) Re-upload the edited
functions.php
file.(4) If that fixes the errors, you should now remove the lines added at step 2.
In addition, I assume you will want to know how to achieve what you were trying to do: i.e. remove
/Home
from the URL. You can do that by following the instructions on this page (under “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install”).