jackforde

Mattyrob, good advice I’m sure, and the right advice… but I wonder if itenterprises is in the boat I’m in. That is, too new to this to know WHERE and HOW to do that renaming that you recommend. I’ve done it before but forget, myself.

Maybe you could explain to him/her how to do it? I think it involves logging into your website hosts C-Panel, looking for where the files are stored, and manually renaming it there. But I’m not sure how to explain that to a newbie.

Jan,

Many thanks!

A day later and all appears better.

I installed WP Super Cache and used that to clear out the page you refer to. So far, it seems to be holding with the correct… newer… post and format.

I wound up having another problem, with incredibly slow loading… which lead me to gtmetrix.com… and a long online conversation with my host company (I still think they had something weird going on at their end, but they didn’t seem to think so).

Of all things, and I post it just “fyi” for the next reader(s) of this… I managed to get my site to load more quickly but first opening up a VPN connection and re-entering the Dashboard.

Once I did that, things were fast enough that I could go into the host company account and delete a lot of excess themes, plus — in the WP Dashboard again — turn off a few unneeded plugins.

But I think I got the biggest speed boost by replacing the new and good Super Cache plugin with what seems like an even better one, W3 Total Cache.

Long story short, before writing to you… my site wouldn’t refresh with the current page or theme and it was running crazy slow. Now, thanks to you and the path you set me on, it loads lightening fast and with the right content.

So, again… many thanks!

Thanks Jeremy,

Resolved with your help… and then undone by the installation of the 2.7 upgrade, which was unable to publish the posts on the schedule…. until I discovered that the “wp-visitors” plugin was shutting it down.

Once I deactivated that plugin, however, it worked as promised. Much appreciated for the reply. By the way, for anyone who stumbles across this, I’ve also discovered that the “wp-sticky” plugin is incompatible with 2.7.

Update:

I went in to the plugin settings and disabled a few that seemed clearly for the sidebar (popular comments, etc). Then went back to the widget manager, and all was well. Google Analytics, also, seems to have nothing to do with it.

Now my only issue is with the otherwise great “Freshy2” template, which seems to be unable to delete “customary quicklinks” that I added and no longer want.

Hi…

This sounds like I might be able to figure out a similar work around, but I’m a newbie to all this and need some clarification… I’m also having a disappearing widgets issue.

These are the widgets I have (those with “Add” I haven’t activated yet)…

Global Translator
HP-Buttons Add
Popularity Lists 1
Random Quote
Most Active Content Add
WP Opt-in Add
Highest Rated Add
Most Rated Add
Pages Add
Your blog’s WordPress Pages
Calendar Add
Archives
Links
Meta Add
Search Add
Recent Posts
Tag Cloud
Categories Add
Text Add
RSS Add
Recent Comments
Add to Any Subscribe
KB Countdown 1 Add
del.icio.us
Categories OR Pages Add
Akismet
Category Cloud Add

Some duplicate the functions of others, I realize. And not all of these are installed in the same sidebar. But something odd has happened.

At first, they all worked and showed up fine.

Then, in the left sidebar, some disappeared.

I have 9 widgets in that one sidebar (just trying them out to decide which to keep). Yet, on the page for managing widgets, where it still says I have 9… it only shows three of them.

And then it says…

%BEG_OF_TITLE%Most Popular:%END_OF_TITLE%

The rest neither show nor function.

I’m not sure what could have triggered that to happen. I did try to run something (another plugin) that was supposed to install the java for Google Analytics in each page. Maybe that broke something?

Still, I’d like to find a way to get rid of the widgets and just reinstall them more cautiously… but this error message blocks me from uninstalling them.

Is there a way to remove widgets from the php code by hand? Or maybe a way to deactivate them all and then turn them back on one by one?

Thanks in advance.

John F.