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I finally got the error logs

I can only access the back in of my website via wifi. my ISP and my web host refuse to get along, I’m still working on this; it never ends.

Anyway. Here’s the error I’m getting the most:

“RSA server certificate wildcard CommonName (CN) `*.secure-wi.com’ does NOT match server name!?”

So I used that language to search through the codex and the forums and I found this thread.

I don’t understand what is meant by “777” in that thread.

But I did go into my file manager and currently my WordPress files are in httpdocs. And the permissions of it are: “rwx r-x —” Listed as:

—–Read mode–Write mode–Execute/search mode
Owner—-Yes——–Yes———Yes
Group—-Yes——–No———Yes
Others—-No——–No———No

What should they be?

I also checked as that thread advised:

In WP Admin – go to the Permalinks settings and check if it says anything about not being able to write to .htaccess.

I’m not seeing anything there about that.

I also checked out this support thread.

I went into the Admin and into Settings > General and my site URL and WordPress URL are correct.

I did find a few things in my search of this formum about a “htaccess” file. But so far I’m not finding one of my site. Where should I be looking?

You mean like in firebug?

No.

I only just installed WordPress on this site so I have added nothing.

Just to rule things out:

I do have all the files in the main directory, rather than put the WordPress files in a sub directory and that would then run from the main site.

i.e.: I’m NOT doing this:
WordPress files here: https://www.me.com/wordpress/
Site here: https://www.me.com

This is what I’m doing:
WordPress files here: https://www.me.com
Site here: https://www.me.com

Still no good. I have no idea what is wrong.

First, I deleted any additional theme from the FTP and switch to Twenty Eleven. But I still have all the same problems, I can’t view the theme previews etc. However while fiddling with it I discovered I can edit in white:

A screenshot of the Post section of the Dashboard. The text is in white on a white background and the only way to read it is to highlight it. Otherwise it looks like this. And it won’t let me click on the HTML tab or the upload media tab in those screenshots either.

So I decided to try reinstalling WordPress. From my web host’s file manager I deleted all the WordPress files (after I had saved a copy of wp-config.php). Then I uploaded a fresh download of WordPress. The only file that is the same is my wp-config.php. I even deleted wp-content because I have no content on this site to lose.

However, I’m not sure how, given I deleted all the file before re-uploading WordPress, but the type I added in white (in the screen shot above) is still there:

https://ridiculousfashion.com/

I even cleared my cache just to be sure, but it’s still there. So should I try reinstalling WordPress again?

So, either I’ve still got some old file in there messing it up, or there’s something wrong with wp-config.php, or it’s all my web host’s fault. I have no idea what is wrong.

But I have never had this much trouble installing WordPress. Oy!

Well since nobody here was able to help. I figured it out.

The problem was my old version of WordPress, I updated and the code worked like magic =))

Have you checked all your templates? It depends on how your templates are set up but go through all of them to make sure they all agree. Espeically …

home.php
themes.php
signle.php
index.php
page.php

Ohps I missed the w should be:

wp_list_pages(“title_li=&sort_column=menu_order&class=”);

I tried that code and doesn’t work. The page fails at that point; see here:

https://sheynawatkins.com/wordpress/

I understand that. But I’m going to need a link back to my home page now that WordPress won’t automatically create one. My PHP reads as follows:

<ul>
<?php

// for sidebar widgets
if ( !function_exists( 'dynamic_sidebar' ) || !dynamic_sidebar( ) )
{

    // search bar
    sp_sidebar_open( "searchbar", "<h2>Search</h2>" );
    include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php');
    sp_sidebar_close( );

    // pages
    sp_sidebar_open( "pages", "<h2>Pages</h2>" );
        echo '<ul>';
        wp_list_pages("title_li=&sort_column=menu_order&class=");
        echo '</ul>';
    sp_sidebar_close( );
} // sidebar widgets

?>
</ul>

I’ve tried the following code to add a real home link in but it just causes all the image links of the page to flicker when the mouse is over them and doesn’t add the link I want.

<ul>
<?php

// for sidebar widgets
if ( !function_exists( 'dynamic_sidebar' ) || !dynamic_sidebar( ) )
{

    // search bar
    sp_sidebar_open( "searchbar", "<h2>Search</h2>" );
    include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/searchform.php');
    sp_sidebar_close( );

    // pages
    sp_sidebar_open( "pages", "<h2>Pages</h2> <ul><a href=\"https://www.elizabethhanbury.com\">Home</a></ul>\n" );
        echo '<ul>';
        wp_list_pages("title_li=&sort_column=menu_order&class=");
        echo '</ul>';
    sp_sidebar_close( );
} // sidebar widgets

?>
</ul>

See:
https://sheynawatkins.com/wordpress/

Well that stinks!

So I’ll probably have to leave everything in the home.php file. Which will make it harder for my friend to edit herself.

If I knew the file path to the pages files, could I do an include or require in php? Probably not, WordPress would probably try to create duplicate pages one using home.php and another using index.php.

So now I need to find out how to edit the php in the sidebar to including a link back to the “home” page now that it will no longer be in the “pages” section WordPress won’t automatically generate one.

Can any one help me there?

Relaunching things seemed to fix the problem

I get around WordPress dumping p and br tags by adding …

style=”margin-bottom: 20px”

to your paragraph tags. Changing the number for how much space you want after each paragraph. You can add margin space in other directions as well, you can even add this to your CSS so it does it by default

thus: p style=”margin-bottom: 20px”

And I’ve tried to use div with references back to CSS for some table information, but WordPress gets rid to div codes when inserted into the editable Page section. Thus I’m forced to use tables from time to time.