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jonradio,

I did this:
“If you have accidentally changed your WordPress site URL

Suppose you accidentally changed the URIs where you cannot move the files. (but still can access the login page, through a redirection or something)

wp-login.php can be used to (re-)set the URIs. Find this line:
require( dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/wp-load.php’ );

and insert the following lines below:
//FIXME: do comment/remove these hack lines. (once the database is updated)
update_option(‘siteurl’, ‘https://your.domain.name/the/path’ );
update_option(‘home’, ‘https://your.domain.name/the/path’ );”

and it worked! Thank you!

Are these the steps you completed, and still your custom menu does not show up?

That is correct.

Are there any other files in your child theme?

No but…

At one point I had trouble with a reply box showing up on every page. I fixed that by commenting out ‘$comment = get_comment($comment_id);’ in file wp-comments-post.php in the twentyeleven theme, not in my child.

At this time that change does not appear in twentyeleven and the reply box has not reappeared. I don’t know why.

I fixed it!

Search for “Delete Reply Box” you will find many postings about the issue going back for years.

The solution changes with every theme but the answer is to comment out a statement about “comment.” The statement may be in various folders. (e.g. loop_page.php for twentyten)

For twentytwelve the statement to comment out is ‘$comment = get comment($comment_id)’ Put ‘//’ in front of that.

Andrew,

How do I implement this? Do I make a new index.php file? A new header.php? Do I need a child theme?

I have tried alternative index.php and index.html but they don’t seem to work in this php environment.

My experience is what you get is definitely not what you see.

Thanks

Frank

AP

I did F12 and emptied the caches.

I am using the GoDaddy automatic installation which creates a new database each time.

I still have the reply box.

Maybe I will try the manual “5 minute installation.”

Thanks

esmi,

This is the one I found too complicated. I downloaded it and there were no instructions.

Isn’t there an easier way?

Thanks
Frank

I am now on reinstall #9. The Reply box is still there.

Is there a website theme with no blog stuff? This could replace twentyeleven.

Frank

The site is curently disabled on purpose.

I disabled jet pack and activated twentyeleven, thus deactivating my child theme.

No luck. I will reinstall (# 7)

Frank

WP,

Yes I created the home page earlier today and make it a static page. Also permalink is set at the default. I see the box with both IF and FF. I also cleared the browser cache set the document at IE standards.

Thanks for your continuing help.

Frank

t-p,

On the home page, below the text is a large grey box that says Leave a Reply. It appears on other pages also.

It is a remmant of the blog function and should not appear for a web site application.
It appears on both my Vista and Windows 7 computers.

Thanks

Frank

I did yet another reinstall and another the above problem is fixed but another old problem has returned.

A Reply box is shown which shouldn’t be there. I have checked Settings, screen options have no blog setting turned on.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Frank

After trying a number of alternatives, I concluded it was not possible.
I terminated the effort.

Michael,

I tried this and could not re-create the menu or banner picture.
I have started over.

Frank

Thank you, mar! it worked!
esmi, i added a child about a week ago. Thanks

Frank

I installed firebug and am learning CSS slowly.