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A bit late, but I had the same problem.

I suspect you’re trying to use widgets to show the Adsense ads?

Look carefully at the descriptions on the widgets and you’ll see most of them won’t display on single posts at all. It’s the one thing I find annoying about this otherwise top-class theme!

You can use widgets on other pages by selecting one of the “front page” templates for them. However I notice the bottom widget still appears right at the bottom of the sidebar, instead of at the bottom of the text – probably too far down to be effective as an ad, if your text is much shorter than the sidebar.

Recurring events IS available in the Pro version of the plugin.

To be fair, plugin authors need to make a commercial decision as to what is and isn’t included in the free version of their plugins. If they offer workarounds in the free version so you don’t need to buy the paid version, they’ll never make any money!

Jetpack, ugh! I was a big fan for a while, until someone did some simple testing for me, and demonstrated how much it was slowing my site down – even though I had 90% of the options disabled! Jetpack isn’t really one plugin, it’s a suite of plugins bundled together. It has an annoying habit of auto-activating features, too.

However I must say, I didn’t know there were standalone CSS plugins so I’ll certainly think about using those in future.

And Encounter is a fantastic theme, BTW. As I say, I’ve spent two days ploughing through theme after theme until I found it. Still playing around with it and very impressed indeed.

Thanks! I have installed the child theme now – however I’ve just spent the last two days searching for the right theme and I notice most new themes have a “custom css” box in the Theme Options section.

A lot of non-technical people are scared of child themes (I was for ages) – they sound too complicated. I’m used to them now, but it still seems unnecessarily fiddly to install a child theme or plugin to make two or three changes to the css.

Thanks, worked a treat!

Thanks for that. I’ve learned something. I just assumed child themes could be added to any theme.

Thanks so much for this! I’ve spent ages Googling it and couldn’t track it down.

I’m not sure why it’s necessary for headings though? Surely there’s no risk of headings overlapping the paragraph text?

Sorry, AIT, I know I am not the best technically but I have just gone to my cpanel and found and opened each of the htaccess files. They’re there. I knew they were there already because I’ve added Analytics code and some eBay coding to them in the past. I’ll try your new coding though and thanks for being so generous with your assistance.

Those aren’t the sub-domains which are the problem. Their posts are already in the /postname format so they’re not affected.

The main sub-domain being affected is dressforflamenco.com which I set up as an “add-on domain” in cpanel

This is what I don’t understand. Each of my sub-domains does have its own .htaccess file already, yet the .htaccess of the main domain is obviously overruling it?

I had never heard of your plugin, by the way – it looks really interesting. Off to study it…

Thanks!

I’ve had to change my permalink structure from month/year/postname to /postname to suit a new directory setup. I used this code to do the redirect:

`RedirectMatch 301 ^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ https://bellydanceoz.com/$3′

and it worked like a charm. Trouble is, it applied to all my sub-domains as well, (which obviously generated 404’s, because the slug does not exist on bellydanceoz).

The solution I was thinking of was this:
Change the permalink structure on my sub-domains th /postname as well, then I could change “https://bellydanceoz.com” to a wildcard symbol so the redirect would stay within the same domain/sub-domain.

Trouble is I don’t understand the code and I have no idea whether it would work! I know this is not relevant to your plugin but if you could give me a clue it would be much appreciated.

Eek, no it didn’t because the redirect is in my main domain, and if I put it in the htaccess for that domain, it’s applying to all my sub-domains as well.

This is the code I’m using. I don’t mind if it applies to all sub-domains, provided it redirects within the sub-domain (so, e.g. the redirect goes to “dressforflamenco.com” within dressforflamenco.com etc).

Anyone know how to change it so the domain name is a wildcard?

RedirectMatch 301 ^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ https://bellydanceoz.com/$3

Thanks, but I’m not sure the posted solution helps me.

The Yoast code I used was:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{2})/(.*)$ https://bellydanceoz.com/$3

If I could make the website name (https://bellydanceoz.com) a wildcard in that expression, so it would redirect within the domain or sub-domain, it would be fine.

AITpro, I have a similar problem in that I need to redirect permalinks on my main domain. I found a redirect script on Yoast which works perfectly, but (as noted above) I now realize that if I put it in my .htaccess file, it applies to my sub-domains too – which I don’t want.

Is there any way I can alter this code so it won’t affect the sub-domains, or is there something I can put in the sub-domain’s htaccess to prevent it taking effect?