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  • Thread Starter iechefs

    (@iechefs)

    it doesn’t work

    In what way?

    Is there a delay between the time the site is created and the time the password is created?

    It says it isn’t redirecting correctly.

    The wp-admin window does come up, but it rejects the username/password which I know is correct.

    Thanks Theme Diva esmi!

    Thread Starter iechefs

    (@iechefs)

    You know what I did? I put everything back the way I originally found it and saved the style sheet. Then I flushed the cache. Then I went back to the page and refreshed it. Now everything seems to be working again perfectly.

    Thank you. Case solved

    ??

    Thread Starter iechefs

    (@iechefs)

    It’s almost certainly a theme/CSS issue. Can you provide a url to a published page demonstrating the problem?

    Sure. https://www.iechefs.org/apprenticeship”

    By the way, it appears you helped somebody else with the same problem about a year ago. You told him(or her) to use <h5>…</h5> (or something like that) instead of using <p>…</p>. I tried that, and it works to some degree, but it is a hack. I tried changing the style sheet (style.css) like this:

    p {
// commented out old value
// margin_bottom:1.7em;
margin-bottom:0.5em;
}

    but I saw no difference.

    Using <h5>…</h5> will create a new line, but it won’t have any bottom margin at all.

    So I added this line to the style sheet:

    // my own entry.  It wasn't there before.
.entry p {margin-bottom: .5em;}

    but that didn’t do anything either.

    So I changed my html to read:

    <p class="entry">Paragraph 1</p>
<p class="entry">Paragraph 2</p>

    What one might expect is that it would say,

    “Paragraph 1

    Paragraph 2″

    but what it actually said was,

    “Paragraph 1
    Paragraph 2″

    So I changed the bottom margin to 1.5em and it made no difference.

    Thread Starter iechefs

    (@iechefs)

    Thank you! That is a simple solution. My solutions were all too complicated.

    Thread Starter iechefs

    (@iechefs)

    It doesn’t matter. if I put two line breaks instead of </p>, it produces the same problem as before. If I have a single break, there is no extra space between the paragraphs. I want some space between the paragraphs, but I don’t want two inches between paragraphs.

    Thread Starter iechefs

    (@iechefs)

    I currently have the three column (a widget area on both the left and on the right.) I’ll look at it. It seems that when I first started with WordPress I had Twenty Ten. I don’t think it had the three columns.

    Thank you. I will look into it now.
    *-*-*-*-*
    Okay, I’m back. I have an extra copy of WordPress on my site in a different folder just for practicing. On that copy, I activated the Twenty-Eleven theme. It appears there are only three options: left side bar, right side bar, and no side bar.
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    I know how I could make the paragraphs spacing the right size but it is really lame. Instead of:

    <p>paragraph</p>

    I could do this:

    paragraph<br /><br />

    but that would require me to be in HTML view all the time.

    If you wanted to get a little fancier, you can try something like this:

    <head>
<style>
thead {background-color:tan;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table border="5" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="15">
<thead><tr><td>col-1</td><td>col-2</td></thead>
<tbody> <!-- I don't use this but WordPress inserted it -->
<tr><!-- this is a row -->
<td><!-- this is a column -->
Type whatever you want in this cell

</td> <!-- this ends this column -->
<td><!-- next column -->
Type whatever you want in this cell

</td> <!-- this ends this column -->
</tr> <!-- this ends this row -->

<tr><!-- this is the next row -->
<td><!-- this is a column -->
Type whatever you want in this cell

</td> <!-- this ends this column -->
<td><!-- next column -->
Type whatever you want in this cell
</td> <!-- this ends this column -->
</tr> <!-- this ends this row -->

</tbody> <!-- I don't use this but WordPress inserted it -->

</table>
</body>

    I am not sure how well WordPress is able to process this code in HTML, but I typed it into NotePad and saved it as HTML and it worked fine.

    I usually go switch from “Visual” mode to “HTML” mode by clicking on the tab at the top of the edit screen. I’m pretty sure this will work. You can then write your tables in plain HTML. Try that and see if it works.

    <table border="1">
<tbody> <!-- I don't use this but WordPress inserted it -->
<tr><!-- this is a row -->
<td>Type whatever you want in this cell

?</td>
<td><!-- next column -->
Type whatever you want in this cell</td>
</tr>
</tbody> <!-- I don't use this but WordPress inserted it -->
</table>

    Try this and see if it works. You will have to play with it a little bit until you get it to look the way you want it to look. If you just copy and paste this code, you will have something to start with. Remember, you must be in HTML mode for this to work.

    There are a lot of tutorials on the web for learning how to tweak HTML tables.

    You can also use 

    <span>

    and 

    <div>

    and other little tricks.

    Thread Starter iechefs

    (@iechefs)

    Also, the EZPC One Click Backup appears to delete the old backups, so it just completed the backup after the change. Maybe I need to reinstall WordPress over the top of the existing WordPress.

    What a mess! ??

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: rss feed error

    Ipstenu said,

    It’s your host, not your plugin. That feed is from google and some hosts have trouble with it.

    My host is with fatcow.com. I have another website at fatcow that has no problems whatsoever, but it uses a different theme. Maybe it is a problem with the theme? Mine is Coraline 1.1.

    If I type in http: // www . mysite . com / feed / the google page comes up offering me to either semd it to my Google Homepage or to Google Reader. I select, “Google Homepage.” It works but doesn’t display any feed. If I add that address into the RSS widget, that’s when I get the error.

    Forum: Fixing WordPress
    In reply to: rss feed error

    Me three. Exact same (or similar) problem.

    "RSS Error:A feed could not be found at https://. . ."

    I just temporarily avoided putting RSS on my widget until I can get the problem fixed. The Google page comes up and the RSS feed gets attached to my Google home page, but it is empty. No actual feed is displayed.

    Thread Starter iechefs

    (@iechefs)

    Nevermind, I found a plug-in called “Widget Logic” that works nicely. Thanks anyway.

    Thread Starter iechefs

    (@iechefs)

    I guess this won’t matter at all since we are not using posts on this installation. I removed the two practice posts. This is now a completely static website using only pages. We have different WordPress installation in a /blog/ sub-directory for doing blogs.

    Thread Starter iechefs

    (@iechefs)

    Thank you. And thank you for that GREAT advice about never modifying the core WordPress PHP files. It’s like never logging in as “root” unless there is a really good reason to do so.

    Okay, I guess I’ll need to write a form in a new PHP file in the root directory that gathers the necessary information. Then I can call it from my BLOG page. I was hoping to place it into the “needs moderation” mode (or whatever it is called) instead of sending it to me as an email.

    The reason I’m having to go through all this extra hassle is that the rest of the board hates the idea of our whole website looking like a blog. So I disabled the comments window. Anyway, the comments window doesn’t ask the required questions. I’ll need to create a custom form.

    I’m not too sure how to do this, but I’ll try to figure it out, then go to the PHP Freaks forum to ask for help.

    Is there a plug-in that does something like what I’m trying to accomplish? I could start with that then tweak it to finish the job.

    Thread Starter iechefs

    (@iechefs)

    There isn’t a functions.php in the theme–at least I didn’t find it. I commented it out, but I can remove it complete. Do some themes have a different file name equivalent to functions.php?

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