Madeline

You can make a page under the pages tab, you can select the layout you would like to use for that page and you would select the content only (make sure you have comments turned on for pages if you still would like your comments to show).

When you go to your pages settings, you should see a section for “layout” after you select edit your shop page. The last option has only the content area, no sidebars.

James,

Everything seems to be working fine now. I ended up deleting my previous db and installing WP via softaculous, I had to contact my host because my files were not deleting like they should have been but they got it taken care of.

Thanks for all your help!

James,

Sorry for the delayed response. It’s been a while since I downloaded WP, do I need to create an entirely new DB? And how would I redownload all of WP over my existing files in PHPmyadmin, especially without deleting the wp-config.php file.

James,

I was saying it was already set to that, I was providing the screenshot to show what I see on my end and it didn’t change after I went into phpmyadmin. The link merged with my text by accident.

I said it was already set to that, meaning when I went to wp_capabilities, was already what you said to change it to. I still re entered it and updated it just in case but that doesn’t seem to be the problem.

So I tried to delete my user completely since it says I am an “administrator” under my users link from the dashboard, when I try to edit it to switch my (only) user to author to see if it will refresh it it says “the current user’s role must have user editing capabilities” and doesn’t change anything.

This is becoming so frustrating, I have no idea what is going on.

Update:

I have looked through all sorts of threads on updating information on phpmyadmin and everything is already the way it is supposed to be.

I changed my password in phpmyadmin and via the lost password link and it doesn’t change anything.

I can still post and whatnot, I just don’t have access to any of those things mentioned previously which are crucial.

At the top of my dashboard when I click on anything I get a message that says “An automated WordPress update has failed to complete! Please notify the site administrator.”

And when I post a test post and then click to view it I get this message: “Error 404 – Not Found… The document you are looking for may have been removed or re-named. Please contact the web site owner for further assistance.”

I am actually dumbfounded at this point.

It was already set to that ??

James,

I have not had trouble with logging into my dashboard, what I am having trouble with is once I am in my dashboard I do not have any admin tools.

For example, when I logged on before changing things, I would have my site name and a “admin panel/dashboard” option and I could toggle between them in the dashboard header navigations. Now my only option in the drop down is my site name, no more admin panel where I could update anything (plugins, themes, wordpress), install or delete these as well, etc.

https://sevenindigoroad.com

I deleted my themes in my file manager in cpanel to see if I could then reinstall on wordpress but I no longer see the admin themes section where I can add new/update/delete.

Yes, Mika I am!

Did you find a solution?

James,

Thank you for your reply. I have changed the URLs back in the database and used the serialized PHP search and replace and seem to have everything working well again (it is opening my current URL).

What I still don’t see is my admin panel to edit plugins or themes… Do you know why this is?

Thank you, I will do that Jose!

I finally fixed the issue, and just in case anyone else experiences this problem I reinstalled the software on my laptop which fixed the problem.

The Apple guy told me if you make a new admin user on your computer and reset your network preferences by naming a new location and it still doesn’t work you just need to reinstall the software (if it happens to work on the new user but not your previous one you will need to erase your computer and reset to factory settings, which they can do for you at the Genius Bar if you’re near one).