garybeck

thank you both. I would love to just remove the malware but Bluehost wants $300 for that. and that’s per site, and i have 4 sites that are infected. you’d think they would have some security to prevent stuff like this. or maybe they’re just setting me up for the $300 charge

thanks. pardon my ignorance, but is there an easy way to update the theme without losing my content?

I am running a child theme of it…. when I go to the themes page it says

Zoom Lite ChildVersion: 1.0.0
By Ghozy
Zoom Lite Child Theme
This is a child theme of Zoom Lite.

when I look at the Zoom Lite parent theme (without activating it) it says

Zoom LiteVersion: 1.0.0.55
By GhozyLab

so maybe i’m already updated?

thanks but it’s not Paypal that’s doing it. it’s WordPress. When I toggle between text and visual, it alters the Paypal code. I need support from WordPress, not Paypal. please help!

thanks that worked! thank you so much!

• This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by garybeck.

thanks for your reply!
I’m sorry, I am not sure what I’m supposed to do on the permalink page?

all of my categories can be clicked on the menu… but when you click on a category you get ” Nothing Found. It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help.”

I would like to make it so the user can’t click on the category, at least not in the menu. It is not a page that they should be able to access… it is just for categorizing the menu items.

is there any way to do this?
thanks!!

if there is a plugin to make a child theme, i’m all ears! where is it? thanks!

yes that is the one I’m trying to just make some small tweaks to. thanks!

yes the Paypal code that I paste in does contain HTML. why does that matter? why does WordPress have to “fix” code that I put in there. Is there a way to force it to leave code as it is and not mess with it. in this case it is destroying it.

I checked out that tool. I don’t think that will help. it seems like it is just for converting HTML code to something that can be displayed on a web page. like it changes “<” to “<” so that the browser doesn’t process the < as code/command and it just displays it as the correct character in the browser.

that’s not my problem here. My problem is that PayPal provides me with some HTML code. It just needs to be preserved and left unchanged. When it is processed by the browser as-is, it works perfectly. there are no problems with special characters or anything like that at all. It doesn’t need to be decoded. It just needs to be left alone. What is happening is that WordPress is actually changing the code in there, without my asking it to. Then the PayPal button no longer works. If it would be helpful, I will show you the PayPal code before and after WordPress destroys it.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 1 month ago by garybeck.

thanks but that didn’t work for me. when I comment out (or delete) that line

and replace it with your code, the entire page disappears.

any other ideas?

is it possible to display an excerpt of each post on the category page, rather than the whole post?

either just the title, or a short excerpt would be great.

thanks

ok i’ll try that. i just copied header.php over and we’ll see how it goes. thanks.

OK well I guess maybe I need to start over. but I’m not sure what settings and options I would have to redo to get the menu to work in the child theme? I did the same thing I did in the parent one but it just doesn’t work in the child one.

thanks that worked! there was some more code you didn’t list between the hgroup tags but I just commented it all out and the space went away. thanks so much.

once I got one to work, i’d rather not mess with the others. ?? I don’t want to break it again ??

the myPHPadmin instructions in your link worked!!!! thank you!

I’d love to fix the email problem though. I’m sure I will forget my password again someday.

I tried the FTP method and it didn’t work. when I input the new password, it doesn’t give me the “wrong password” message but it just reloads the login page with empty fields.