Deaf_Guy

LINK TO WP VIDEO

OK I made a walk through video that shows the issue. Link is below. Bottom line is the CSS is a very simple tooltip CSS.

Any help is appreciated.

https://youtu.be/wpc1S8IN6No

OK thank you. I can’t seem to find that revisions thing so it’s probably not even working.

OK thank you.

OK thank you for this tip and I’ll try it.

OK thank you for telling me this. I did and it works now.

Yeah I see what you mean. At this point, i’m just going to move forward and do as much as I can and fix the links like I have been.

install the htaccess editor for the other sites that do not have it, plug in the stuff that i have and hope for the best.

The web operations people aren’t much help, i got shot down by manager for not being allowed to answer your questions, but thanks to you and reading up on other posts, i’ve at least been able to get what i can done for them.

thanks again for your assistance.

On my testing server this morning, which is multisite enabled, I launched a new subsite. The main site is here:

https://designerandpublisher.com/wp-testing/

The new sub-site is here:

https://designerandpublisher.com/wp-testing/virginia/

so then i looked at the server, thinking there was going to be a whole new folder under wp-testing called “virginia” but there isn’t, which surprised me since i’m used to making websites where you drop files into different sub-directories.

anyway, i’m just glad i got the peramlinks (pretty) working now. i just fixed a 4th one and that one works too.

the other 5 regions i now have to go in and install an htaccess editor plugin for each one so i can then fix those too. looks like you learn something new every day.

PS – i was able to figure out how to design a website in Muse and then cut it up and incorporate WP into it. that’s what you see here:

https://designerandpublisher.com/wp-testing/

so i’m pretty excited about having and understanding that capability now.

Mike,

thanks for you reply and I agree I didn’t think it would breach security if I would have answered your questions. But managers like to manage without them actually understanding what it is they’re managing. Things like that are pretty much out of our control sometimes…

Anyway, I was able to fix 3 of the region sites. I plugged in the htaccess code AND used a custom permalink and those 3 seem to work. Here is one of them:

https://www.regions.noaa.gov/alaska/

Hi Mike – my manager just told me that he prefers not to ask the web people to get the info you need. He’s concerned about security. I apologize for this. The public sites are listed above.

Is there any type of help or advice you can give me?

Thanks.

Mike – I have the answer for #2 for you:

All of the following sites are doing the same thing as I described them above. You turn on the permalinks and the site gets screwed up. The sites are:

https://www.regions.noaa.gov/main/

https://www.regions.noaa.gov/alaska/

https://www.regions.noaa.gov/central/

https://www.regions.noaa.gov/great-lakes/

https://www.regions.noaa.gov/gulf-mexico/

https://www.regions.noaa.gov/north-atlantic/

https://www.regions.noaa.gov/pacific-islands/

https://www.regions.noaa.gov/secar/

https://www.regions.noaa.gov/western/

As soon as I find out these answers will send to you. Thanks again, Mike.

Hi – thanks again. I honestly don’t know so I will ask the web operations people. When you say “where is WP…?” what exactly do you mean – so I know how to describe it to the web people?

I also don’t have access to the server, so that’s also why I am going to ask the web people, so they can tell me where all of the files are.

Hi Mike,

I copied and pasted the code into one of the regional WP sub-sites. I put it in the htaccess editor and saved it:

https://designerandpublisher.com/images/wp01.jpg

After I saved it, I then went into the Permalinks and changed it from default to Post name, then saved it:

https://designerandpublisher.com/images/wp02.jpg

After I did this, I opened up an existing page to see if the permalink was turned on like it should be. It was:

https://designerandpublisher.com/images/wp03.jpg

But when I looked at the page live, I got a 404 error:

https://designerandpublisher.com/images/wp04.jpg

I then went back into the publisher and published a new page. While I was creating the new page, the permalink automatically worked as you see below:

https://designerandpublisher.com/images/wp05.jpg

But when I published that page, it came back again as 404:

https://designerandpublisher.com/images/wp06.jpg

So I’m not sure what to do at this point. I copied the code below just to show you what I put into the htaccess editor. It would probably help if I could actually see the server and open the actual htaccess files to make sure the actual pasted code is there, rather than trust the htaccess editor plugin. Notice at the bottom of the code that htaccess editor is generating those # comments.

Anyway, do you have any ideas?

Thanks.

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CODE I PASTED INTO THE HTACCESS EDITOR:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ – [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

THIS WAS GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY BY THE HTACCESS EDITOR:

# BEGIN WordPress

# END WordPress

ok no problem. i will try your code in the morning and report back. thanks again for your assistance. sure hopes this fixes it ??

Hi Mike – thanks so much for replying. The reason why I put that “alaska” in there is because I thought you had to put the sub-directory in the code. Guess not?

I will definitely try your code tomorrow morning and report back. If you’d like to see the sites, they are here:

https://www.regions.noaa.gov/main/

It loads slowly so bear with it. If you want to see all of the sites, click on REGIONS and you can visit all of them. As I said above, they all currently work, just with ugly URLs. So I’m hoping your code will help me and I can turn on permalinks for all of them.

Thanks, Mike W.