loglady1987

Dear me.

Apologies on the spelling mistakes. I also meant to write Twenty Fourteen. Doi.

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/127179/how-to-fix-wordpress-dashboard-screen-option-help-button-its-not-working

That was the link I should have inserted

It’s not my content.

I don’t know why, but I sense a weird hint of hostility from your posts.

I wasn’t left with two galleries and two portfolios within my content. It was in the dashboard, underneath pages,posts etc. Both themes have “Portfolios” and “Galleries” sections that make tabs appear to add my content to. When I removed one theme and installed the other as normal, it left me with TWO of each. One of each of them had a weird symbol which showed they weren’t supposed to be there.

Both themes are made by the same person and involve installing a plugin for their gallery sections. This could have been the problem. Maybe I should have removed the plug in too before installing the second theme, although it’s the same plugin.

Just to be clear, it was not my content. As I say, I got it sorted. Thanks for your… help.

Hi Esmi,

I didn’t really word that properly. I didn’t mean one on top of the other, but installing a new one, sometimes bits of the old one get left behind and mess things up a little. As was the case here. I ended up with remnants of the previous theme so was left with two gallery and portfolio sections.

Its ok though, I got it sorted. He installed from scratch to erase any problems. Defaulting to 2014 didn’t solve the problem unfortunately but all good to go!

Thanks!

Yeah that would be what I am afraid of. Or rather, what I don’t want to happen. I need to be able to add or remove things if I so wanted to and not have to worry that that certain function isn’t available with the theme I pick.

I spent a couple of months learning how to build the website and it took a lot of hours and stress getting my head around it. So I could do without another headache. ; )

I just know how to use the galleries that come with this theme etc now, took ages to find out how to build the front page (sort of) to my liking, how to have things placed a certain way. I just want it to work. Booo.

Just based on experience with ones i have used before. I can’t customise them completely.
For example, my site at the minute (until I set it to default) is very clean and mainly white with a simple logo in the middle, menu below that, then content all in the centre of each page.

If I can customise each theme to how I want my site to look EXACTLY, then why have so many different themes? Some themes have borders or colours schemes that you cannot replace or get rid of. Some are more laid out like a blog when I want mine to have mainly static pages etc.

If I’m going to put in the work with any of the themes, then why not Thesis as, the whole of the internet would have you believe, it’s one of the best ones you can use.

I like the look of the “eighties” one but I want my site to look a particular way and I don’t think I would have a lot of freedom with the free wordpress ones.

Doesn’t Thesis give you the freedom to completely design your website the way you want it.

Also, it’s very good for SEO. I do have other plugins installed including Yoast, but I’m told Thesis is one of the best I can use.

How would the free WordPress themes weight up against those?

Yeah I’m looking into that too.

I’ve been considering Thesis for some time. I had someone who knew their way around Thesis but couldn’t find the time to finish the site for me, so I bought a simpler theme that I could figure out myself. It took some time getting to learn how to use it but at least I have (had) a fully working website that didn’t look too bad.

Would you recommend learning to use Thesis if I plan on doing a bigger upheaval anyway?

I’m really tempted to start again from scratch. :S

Ok.

I seem to be getting somewhere. At least for the time being, the pages are leading to somewhere rather than a blank page. I have a feeling it may have something to do with the templates. But I really don’t know what is causing them to act this way.

Any new ones are mad exactly as the others were made. So it’s a little confusing as to why this is happening.

If there are any other suggestions you have, by means of how you think I need to sort out the menu, I would be grateful.

For now, I am renaming pages and their attributes to make sure it’s clearer a little that the home link is now called home instead of home-2.

This isn’t what has made some content appear though. It was changing to templates that I use in the theme that made that happen.

Thanks again,

Lisa

Hi Don,

thanks for replying. I will look at them again now, but they’re called home-2 and portfolio-4 just because I had to make new ones to replace the old ones. I did this in the way I have always handled my site.

The thing is, when pages started disappearing, this wasn’t an issue. So I don’t know why this is happening. The menu had not been altered in any way when the galleries turned blank.

But I’ll check and let you know how I get on,

Lisa

https://www.wrappedinplasticphotography.co.uk/

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