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Hi there!

Can you please clarify something for me?

Do you already operate a WordPress website and are you looking for an application or plugin to go with the WordPress website which will allow for that feature? (might be possible, but I honestly wouldn’t know)

Or, are you asking if the WordPress web publishing software supports this natively/automatically/straight out of the box? (it doesn’t)

(Just to be certain, you’re looking for functionality/a feature like what VistaPrint uses, right? Allows users to self-select font sizes and colors and product dimensions, etc.)

Hi there!

I’m a little confused with what you said so please bear with me.

From the sound of what you said in your post – re: web interface, it sounds like you might have a WordPress.com account or a WordPress website hosted somewhere similar to how WordPress.com works.

What is your website address?

Are you on WordPress.com by any chance?

This support forum where you are posting at is for self-hosted (meaning, the WordPress websites are hosted on a server that people who are requesting support have access to… for example, I own WordPress websites on my own server space) WordPress sites.

That aside, it generally is possible to back up the CONTENTS of your WordPress website regardless of where it is hosted.

If you look in your Admin panel and click on the Tools, there is an Export link. If you click that, it will open a page that gives options for backing up your site’s contents.

This file can be imported into a new WordPress website (or other website using a content management system compatible with WordPress data importing).

It is NOT meant to serve as a full and complete backup, but it will help you to collect and export your website content into an importable file.

Hi there!

Can you please link to your website?

There is probably a bit of CSS coding that needs to be altered to make the borders appear for the tables on your website. Or, if the code is already written so that the borders are supposed to show, then there might be something overriding it or there might be a coding error somewhere.

Generally speaking though if you haven’t already written the border coding already, in your child theme’s stylesheet, you would add something like this to give your tables their borders back:

table, th, td {
    border: 1px solid #000000;
}

except more specifically targeted and customized (for instance, if you wanted to collapse the spaces between the cells or if you wanted to change the table borders for ONLY your posts or ONLY in your sidebar, etc).

Hi there!

You can find the information here: https://webtuts.pl/sugar-spice-pro/ assuming it is the same theme (please double check!).

Cheers!

Hi there!

Is this setting with comments being closed still having problems when you disable all of your plugins and use a default WordPress theme? If you haven’t tried it yet, go ahead and give it a try (disabling all of your plugins and swapping to a default theme) and see what happens.

Also, is this throughout your blog or is it just on certain posts?

Manually using Quick Edit might temporarily solve the problem for now.

Hi there! ??

By any chance is it a broken link or a PHP code snippet or HTML code snippet not parsing correctly?

Also, can you link to the site?

Hi there! ??

Funny enough, when I first clicked the link, I saw the page myself that said ‘this webpage is not available’ but then when the page fully loaded, I saw the login panel.

It is possible that the plugin being used for the membership login page is being a little buggy which would affect access to the page. Also, if the site is being slow, sometimes you might time-out which means the page you want and its features may not load completely.

Try logging in again and clear any and all cookies related to the site.

If you still can’t get in, you can try FTPing into your site and disabling the plugin for the membership page login.

Hi there! ??

Topics like permalinks are also handled via the Permalinks feature in your Admin panel which is probably what is currently controlling the output of your URL (since it is probably on default).

Permalinks settings allow you to choose how the basics of your Post URLs will be displayed across your site.

To change the formatting of your permalinks:

1) Go into your Admin Panel

2) Go into Settings

3) Go into Permalinks

Here you will see examples of how blog post URLs can look (permalinks) and you may choose how you wish to format them. You may choose the default (which is probably what you have right now), day and name (title of your post), month and name, archival form, post name only, etc.

Personally speaking and in terms of perhaps avoiding same-name clashes between Posts and Pages and to help keep me organized, I format my permalinks to show both date and name.

Hopefully this helps.

Hi there Ran!

Thank you so much for reporting back and thank you for your kind words; it made me smile and after having a not-so-great-week, I really needed it! ??

That said, we are all unpaid volunteers here on these forums and that includes me.

I have used WordPress for a little over 5 years now (still not so hot with PHP, though – LOL!) and I really love and am passionate about what WordPress can do. I enjoy helping others on the forum if I can because I want for people to get the best that they can get out of WordPress, too.

A word of advice in case you run into other problems in the future:

– Using a default WordPress theme

and

– Deactivating all plugins

can be very useful in troubleshooting WordPress website issues.

All the best to you and Happy WordPress-ing! ??

Whooops, I forgot the closing tag:

#content {
	margin: 0 38.020833333333% 0 3.645833333333%;
	max-width: 560px;
}

Hi there! ??

From what I can tell:

#content {
	margin: 0 38.020833333333% 0 3.645833333333%;
	max-width: 560px;

The max-width and the margin (on the right side) is what is limiting how wide your content (within #primary) goes.

Play around with those two numbers and the width of your content ought to change.

It is more than likely that your theme or a plugin might have added it in as a feature. Does swapping to a default WordPress theme clear the issue? Does deactivating your plugins?

Please update us when you find out?

I actually tried another default install and I still couldn’t see the social networking custom fields.

Hi there! ??

Can you please elaborate on what user profile you are talking about?

I’m a little confused because on a default self-installed WordPress user profile, there is no contact field regarding Twitter, Facebook, etc.

There is this:

Visual Editor
Admin Color Scheme
Keyboard Shortcuts
Toolbar
Name
Username
First Name
Last Name
Nickname (required)
Display name publicly as
Contact Info
E-mail (required)
Website
About Yourself
Biographical Info
New Password
Repeat New Password

And, as you can see, no Twitter, Facebook, or any other social networking contact field.

Hi there! ??

If the theater image is a background image rather than a foreground image (which it currently is), then the video can likely be centered using CSS positioning.

Hi vmallder!

I’m sorry to hear you’re having a frustrating experience.

Have you always had this problem, even with a vanilla install of WordPress using the default theme and no plugins activated? Or is this a new problem that suddenly cropped up? Do you host multiple/other sites and if you do, do they also experience the same problem?

I actually host my WordPress sites on Dreamhost, too, and like you, I use shared hosting (been with them now for 5+ years using their shared hosting).

In my case, however, I seem to have little trouble or issues with slowness in regards to the backend/administrative side of WordPress. Additionally, unless my site is actually down or the connection isn’t good (seldom happens, but it does on occasion) or if my own connection isn’t good (like if I use public wi-fi or my home wireless connection is acting up), I never experience the timing out or really lengthy loading times you described.

Taking into consideration that I am accessing my live sites on Firefox 12 from a Windows XP machine with 2 Gigs of RAM and also the fact that my wireless signal isn’t always the best:

– Previewing Posts/Pages is Around 5-15 seconds

If I am loading in outside content (like embeds), my loading time takes longer (towards the 10-15 seconds).

– Clicking Edit and Going to the Post Edit Screen 5-10 seconds

That almost never changes much.

– Updating a Post/Page/Template file and Waiting for Screen Refresh 5-10 seconds

This also doesn’t seem to change much.

– Loading a Non-Cached Post or Page on my Site takes 5 seconds

Embeds or large file sizes can lengthen the time.

– Loading a Cached Post or Page on my Site takes less than 5 seconds

Embeds or large file sizes can lengthen the time.

I’m the sort of person who likes to do live Posting and live template development and debugging which means I’m constantly typing, saving, uploading, and refreshing. In which case, slowness and/or lag/something out of my ordinary would really hit me hard and it would be something I would hopefully take notice of quite quickly.

There HAVE been times where it has initially seemed that my WordPress backend has been more sluggish, but this slowness was proved to be a memory and resources issue with my own web browser and machine whereupon closing out my web browser and rebooting my machine always resolved the issue.

In other words, for me, if my backend was/is being ‘slower than normal’, so is my frontend and with it, my connectivity with every other site (including here on the forums and on Google, etc) because something on my end is affecting my browsing and working-in-the-web-browser experience.

But… that’s my own experience.