Preeminent

Thanks Andrea, I’ve used that link and dropped those items from the database.
I still can’t get my permalinks back to /%category&/%postname%/ every time I set it back to this, I get sent to the admin login page and it won’t let me log back in.
If I take my .htaccess file off my server, I can go back and login. If I upload the .htaccess file back up, every thing still works fine, except if I try and change the permalink structure back to/%category&/%postname%/ Does it seem like I’m stuck with default permalinks now?

Ok, well now that I’ve gone and screwed things up for nothing! I’ve got another problem! I changed everything back to what it was before trying to go multisite. (edited wp-config and my .htaccess files back to what they were) During that whole process of trying to fix broken permalinks, I reset my blog back to default permalinks, because that was the only option that worked. I probably know the answer, but is there anyway to get my blog back to the /%category&/%postname%/ permalinks that I had? If I now try to change them from default to that, all hell breaks loose and I’m taken back to the LOGIN screen (which won’t let me login) and if I try to access my blog’s url, nothing happens. If I delete my .htaccess file from the server and then reupload, I can get things back up but with only default permalinks.

Here is the .htaccess file I’m using:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Should I change something?
I can’t believe I did this! For some reason, I had it set in my brain that I had to go the multisite route to get another blog going. Geez!

Ok, now I’m just lost, sorry! You say that multisite is probably overkill, but how else can I have basically a separate blog and theme on the same server/database/domain and still be part of my main site like my https://www.mysite.com/blog is? I guess what I need to know is what is the best way for me to keep my https://www.mysite.com/blog and also start a https://www.mysite.com/store portion of my site. But have the /store be a separate blog and theme? All without messing up my current /blog permalinks?

And to maybe help more: when I added the multisite feature, I ended up with https://www.mysite.com/blog/blog/category/postname when I click on any post title link, and that extra /blog is screwing things up.

I originally was going to do a https://www.store.mysite.com subdomain, but I can’t do it that way. Can I just create a new /store directory and have that new blog and theme be pointed to that directory?
Again, I feel like i’m making things harder to understand, but I want to make sure I explain what I’m trying to do. I really thank you for any direction you can give!

Ok well what if I just create another folder for it. For example:
https://Www.mysite.com/store and have that be my 2nd wordpress blog in addition to the https://www.mysite.com/blog which currently has the broken permalinks.
Does this make sense? I hope I’m explaining myself clearly. Basically i would like my original blog to stay the same without broken permalinks, but setup my install with another wordpress theme as my store. I appreciate the replies!

Hmm, well here is what is going on. My main blog is located at https://www.mysite.com/blog separate from my main https://www.mysite.com.
I now plan on using the multisite network feature to have another blog and theme located at https://www.store.mysite.com does that make sense? Is this going to be possible while keeping all old blog posts from mysite.com/blog intact, as far as permalinks go?

Thanks for your reply Andrea! I was under the assumption that I did do the subdomain install?! I will check the link you provide as soon as I get home tonight. But yes, if I can fix the permalinks I want to use this network feature.

Yeah, I just downloaded Firebug for this reason. Very odd. I will continue to look where you suggested. Thanks for the reply!

I just don’t get it! If there is nothing in my css that is indicating the text to be black. What in the world could be causing this?!

Great info LenK. Thanks!

Thanks so much for the quick responses!
The link is here: https://www.preeminentproductions.com/blog

Well what is odd is that this happened just recently. I have only been working on this for a few weeks, but at first, the font color within the posts was a light color and could be read easier. And it was automatic. I didn’t have to change anything.