gk

Ok found it – installed “Ultimate Landing Page” not Ultimate Coming Soon Page not paying close attention missed the right turn.
Now working.
gk

Yep it’s active and in fact I have turned it off and on a couple of times. Not sure what’s going on with it.
gk

Are you using a child theme?

Hi nb123,
Just for clarity, when you say you “copied” the old site to a new site,
I have a couple of questions:

How do you define the new site?
How do you define the old site?
Are you changing hosting companies?
How did you “copy” the database?
Does this coping involve two domains?
What is the old site’s url?
What is the new site’s url?

Cheers,
gary

You might need to experiment with this since you have a live site up and hopefully you are running something like WAMP or LAMP on you computer for your development site.

Make sure you have permalinks on “Post Name”

Go to Dashboard >> Appearance >> Customize >> Select “Static Front Page” :Under Front page Display: “A Static Page” :Select the following: Front Page (i.e. Home) :and: Posts Page (i.e. Blog)
You might need to hunt a little if you don’t find these links. Each theme seems to have their own name and location for “Customize”

This can be a little tricky but experiment with it and when you find the correct combo on your test site do the same on your live site.

I would suggest trying to get your site to load in 3 seconds or less. There’s a couple things that will help:
Remove/delete all plugin’s that are not active
Use plugin Quick Cache (just enable it)
Reduce picture resolution (use pixlr.com it’s free)
Test speed at pindom.com/tools it’s free

Hope this helps,
gk

Nope, it is not absolutely necessary to use a child theme. You can also change the code in Dashboard >> Appearance >> Editor >> Select the footer.php file on the left.

If you do not choose to use a child theme or this editor you will need edit the footer.php in the theme folder each time there is an update.

You also might look into Firebug (for Firefox) and play with that to get what you need before you change any coding. This will give you a better idea of what will happen with the changes before you make a permanent code change.

gk

Hey Bob,
You might try an FTP client and go to:
yourdomain/wp-content/themes/
There should be a couple of themes here.
But you can also upload the zipped theme file at:
Dashboard >> Appearances >> Themes >> Click on “Add New”
Either search for the theme online or select click “Upload” if you have downloaded it to your computer.
gk

Work with Child Theme to avoid loosing your changes and move the footer.php into the Child Theme. You can add/change/delete the coding there to gain what you desire. Using the Child Theme will preserve your work. You can look up creating a child theme.
Hope this helps,
gk

Looks like you are using ThemeHall?
Great pictures!
There are a couple of ways to solve this problem.
Easiest is to change the size of the picture to 980 width in a photo editor.
OR
There are a couple of other ways to correct this.
If you are running a child theme you can add some css coding that would also solve the problem.
Using Firebug >> via Firefox check setting.

There are a couple of things you might consider doing:
Have the autumn picture on the static home page only, all other pages would not have this picture.
Reduce the resolution on the pictures to improve load time of all your pages.
Put a “Home” button on your menu
Hope this helps,

gk