loiswakeman

That’s interesting. All the plugins I use are optional (i.e. I can deactivate them all and the situation stays the same).

I wonder if it’s a corruption issue. I will try a local installation and see if this is better behaved – thanks for your help.

OK – I set debugging mode on but no logs are being written. Back to square one.

Thank you for the suggestion, and my apologies for mis-spelling the theme name.

To explain further, the Atahualpa theme (which is very old but I have been trying for a long time to get the client to change it!) appears to control the look of the backend as well as the front end – both use similar colors, fonts etc. different from the WP standard look.

If I activate a new theme, the frontend site changes, but the backend still looks like Atahualpa.

Does that make sense?

Anyway, I’ll look at the logs and see what I can find.

OK – I found the answer eventually. I need to leave ‘Show user description in profile header’ set to yes, but remove the biography user meta from the profile form, even though it says to select it to show it under the header. That gives me one editable biography field – result!
Got there in the end…

Hi Champ,

This is what I see logged in:

profile

I can indeed turn off the second instance using the menu you suggested – thanks for that – but after that, it is not possible to edit the description; no input box is available when you click the gear icon.

One step forward, one back!

I solved it but not the way I wanted. It seems you can’t use AND and NOT in the same expression.
catlist id=11,-13
works.

So, another categorisation needs inventing to do what I want.

OK, a bit more info. The posts I want to include are 10+11, and exclude those with 10+11+13.

I tried
catlist id=10+11,-13

but that doesn’t work either.

Hi Supernovia – thanks for the reply. The URL of the ‘start publicising now’ button in my wp-admin/Jetpack/My plan dashboard is https://wordpress.com/marketing/connections/lymebayarts.co.uk
but that immediately redirects to
https://wordpress.com/stats/day

like this screen shot

Ah! – I followed your other workaround and that’s given the answer (my user error) – I hadn’t turned the sharing module on in the Settings first <blush/>. As there was no error message getting there the other way, it wasn’t obvious what was going on. An error message at the point you press the button would be helpful ??

Thanks again for prompting the solution…

That sounds like a good compromise. Of course, I may be the only one who has this difficulty in finding the settings!

Many thanks for your response Jess.

Hi Jess – it’s hard to explain in words, but once the form has been saved, there seems to be no way to select the whole form to see the settings at the right side. Clicking at the top just offers a new block, and as soon as you move down from there, it’s the settings for the first field in the form that are displayed.

[Edit]: I’ve just played about a bit more, and find out that I can edit the mailto if I select the submit button.

I guess it’s just me me – I think in a top-down way regarding the form structure in HTML and expected this to come first in the hierarchy, but the overall settings are actually held down at the bottom!

Hope this makes sense, and thanks for getting back to me. I’ll edit the review in a bit.

Thank you Andrew. I will investigate further.

My experience is different.

Two of my sites updated themselves overnight (08/09/12), having asked me for a couple of days if I wanted to update, which I didn’t until I’d done some testing. Fortunately they both work.

One on another server hasn’t (yet), so I guess there is some difference in the s/w installed. The two that updated had sent a message via Sofaculous saying an update was available but not that it was going to be applied.

Sometimes the simplest answer is the one – it was browser caching!

This isn’t WordPress I suspect, it’s the Edge browser, which doesn’t handle certain media types nicely (especially PDFs I have found). There are lots of complaints on the MS forums about the issue.

Tip: click the … button at the top right and you can choose “Open in IE”, which does work as it used to.

(I’m just going to find out if I can set IE as the default browser instead…)

Hi there – never did get it to work, so I broke the rules and edited the parent theme! Annoying but necessary.

I suspect it was an encoding issue, since it worked on my development site (running IIS/Windows) but not on the production site (Linux/Apache) – there is no BOM in the file but it still breaks.