llilly

Tag-Cat converter: The one that’s listed in my ‘Import’ page off the dashboard.

my website is https://www.laurabrunolilly.com

About upgrading:
Since you asked, I’ll tell you that I’ve been researching the hows of doing this since the beginning of the year.
In preparation for all of that, it involves doing backups (I have backed up using my hostgator ‘backup’ button) but I’ve never tried to retrieve anything… It also involves turning off all plugins. To be safe, I’ve learned that the best way is to do a clone site ‘just in case.’
Unfortunately, the idea of creating a clone has just gotten way over my head…all my plugins need to be updated, too and the thought of turning everything off, upgrading WP from 3.6 to what, 3.9 and running the risk of losing everything once re-starting plugins is daunting to me.
I started WP with a minimal amount of tech knowledge,armed with a copy of WP for Dummies and Word Press2Go but this is getting too scarey and time consuming for me. To me, it is more than simple ‘maintainence.’
That said, I’ve been looking for refs for someone to help me…paid help of course…there’s almost too much to choose from when I google that subject.
Many thanks for the warning about hackers…I’ve noticed more SPAM lately…and thanks for the hint that I’d have to do mini upgrades first…I’ll return to doing research on how to do this, but I’m thinking I’m not tech savy enough to do it at all.

thanks for the clarification!

Thanks to all of you. I’ll check google forums while waiting for those 6 months to pass!

My main concern was the instant change that occurred after the ‘under construction’ sign was removed. And because it was so ‘instant’ why wouldn’t other aspects of my newly launched site be instantly accessible?!!! All things on the internet are not created equal, eh?

I’m not sure this is resolved, more like ‘on hold’ to see what google does with the passage of time.

Yikes…it didn’t take my ‘real site name’

it’s:

https://www.laurabrunolilly.com

LOL….And your ‘funny irony’ is all part of the mix in trying to come to a comfortable conclusion in how to deal with all of this! BTW-my theme is twentytwelve

ahhhh..ok I see. thanks

just figured it out…btw-I only wrote after 2 hours of searching forums and experimenting on my blogs..so I didn’t just write without trying stuff out first…anyway…resolved
Why? Because I’d check my ‘view post’ afterwards, NOT the entire ‘blog’ page from clicking on it from the menu…geesh!

resolved

just googled utc conversion to usa timezones…got it!

Long time no log-in…enlisted hubby on the back end of this and after trying alot of the above,and alot of back and forthing between parent and child, ended up getting what I wanted…thank-you…feel like I climbed a mountain…HA! I consider this A-1 DONE! Thanks again, guys.

I got up ready to get on with this and I really blew it…I cut and pasted all the above suggestions in the areas delegated, updated and this came up: (sorry don’t even know what a backtick is) Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home3/llilly/public_html/wp-content/themes/twentytwelve-child/functions.php on line 4

I suspect it’s due to the fact that my site is called: laurabrunolilly.com
not: llilly

but I don’t know how to fix that in what was given to me.
Unfortunately, I can’t even get to where I can just change the theme back to regular 2012, it keeps putting up the above quoted thing I should have put into backticks but didn’t know what those were. Please just get me back to my old regular 2012. I shouldn’t have fallen for this false sense of confidence.

Deep breath; take a break; WPyogi gave me permission to comeback to this later….nice. (I’ll probably come back to it sooner than later…HA!)

Thanks so much for your help…it’s shown me this is way beyond what I can do now…sigh…at least I conquered the fear if not the actual problem!

So I’ve been playing around with the editing on the 2012childtheme and changing things, just not what I wanted. First I went into 2012 header.php: cut and pasted it and put in “100%” for both width and height into the 2012 childtheme and it didn’t do what I wanted. Then I went into 2010 template for header.php and cut and pasted it into 2012child and it didn’t do what I wanted. How do I get my child theme to implement changes to my parent theme? Specifically looking like the 2010 home page custom photo header with menu underneath? The try-outs I mentioned rendered a list of the site name & tagline, menu names, my small header image and my text all left aligned in list format. I’m happy to become less fearful of this process, but I do need more direction as to how to do this. Manual recommendations? Helpful hints?

Ahhh…perfetto! Mille Grazie, tutti!