elliekennard

I will Esmi
I don’t seem to have a left sidebar file. Just the sidebar file. I will paste the code from that.

I can see no reference that I recognize in any of the PHP files to the left sidebar.

Plenty of reference to the right sidebar content.

Nonetheless I see menu items there, just no Home link which I would like…

Hi Esmi,

Any suggestions as to what might get me that Home link at the top of my menu? I might exclude it from the opening page if that were possible, but otherwise it’s better to have it on all than on none.

Cheers!

Ellie

No, I have no widgets in the sidebars at all.

Did not use the pages widget.

My PHP shows nothing for the left sidebar just shows the ul for the right sidebar with the different elements. (again, no widgets)

Got to go to bed now, back tomorrow, will check first thing.

Thanks

neither are listed there.

I had 2 of the same custom menus appear, one above the other.

I am relatively comfortable with HTML, CSS and can try to figure things out a bit in PHP as I have done a few things with it on this site and others.

My theme (Andreas) does not have any pre-defined menu locations. I added it to the sidebar like any other widget and it then appeared in duplicate.

Is there no way on a wordpress theme such as Andreas to actually have a “Home” link appear on all pages except home, without creating a custom menu? Most people will not know to click on the name at the top of the blog, so many are not very browsing literate.

It just seems so basic.

Woops! Created one and every single one of my subscribers (subscribe2 plugin) got sent an email for each menu item! #embarrassing

Many thanks for the suggestion, though.

How do I set position etc. of this menu? Not sure how the CSS will affect it and I see no help in the link you provided.

Seems to be the Image Protector plugin that has caused this as when I deactivate it, the problem goes away.

Thanks for the info on the validator. I have seen the errors in the past but have been uncertain on how to fix errors in a wordpress site where I have no difficulty at all in html pages on my non wp sites.

Sorry about posting twice, was getting desperate with no replies. I should have just posted again in the first to get it back to the top, of course. Didn’t think.

I can’t use the search box in Opera on two different computers with two different OS (Vista and Win7, both 64 bit). I have googled to find out what settings might affect this, but there is no reference to any such problems.

Maybe an Opera help would work, but it seems to be my site specific.

I can use the search form on this forum, for example. I can also use the search form on other wordpress sites (I think they are) such as allthingsd.com.

Seems to be my own site code.

Works fine now. Must have been something funny in the codes generated the first time.

Thanks for all the help. Will mark this resolved.

Cheers!

Ellie

Tried inserting the keys and salts, but was getting an error message to do with the key at line 18, so have now removed them. It was copied exactly, but won’t work with that line, apparently. I presume it is just for added security. Perhaps I should get a new one? If so, do I just refresh the page that gives the codes for new values?

Not to mention viewing on mobile devices, of course.

8.0.7600.16385

You can never, unfortunately, know what your viewers will be using for browsers. Just check the look on several of them to be sure (on at least Mac and Windows OS, but more, if possible).

Thanks so much, Ipstenu.

I took what you gave me last night and went into cpanel to see what was going on with database users/passwords etc. I created a new user, new password and filled that info into the wp-config.php file. Having added that user to the database, the site is now working again!! Thanks for giving me that clue. Panic tends to drive reason out of the door… at least for me.

Now, do you think that I should go in and add the Authentication Unique keys and salts and these? Or leave well enough alone?:
/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);