Paul

Thanks for your quick response – very much appreciated. The server is Apache 2.4 with PHP 7.2. I will install the older release and see if that makes a difference. Will let you know!

Another tidbit to add; I have another site using the exact same theme/child. In the other site I see in All Pages the posts page (not the home page) showing next to its title: -Posts Page. The Home page in alternativewinepackaging in All Pages does not have that remark. Is that significant?

Hello, I have a similar problem. For some reason my posts page showing excerpts does not have a …[Read more…] link automatically generated for any post summary. It is not the home page, but is a top-level link in the nav. Settings properly indicates a static home page with the posts page for posts. Also, inserting a <!-more-> in the post manually using the toolbar button does not create one either. Making this more strange and frustrating is I’m using the exact same custom child theme on another site – only colors and graphics are changed – and that other site does show the …[Read more…] link that is automatically generated. So that eliminates the theme. Deactivating all plugins doesn’t help. I’d provide links but both sites are localhost development installs using WAMP. Any suggestions on getting a read more link on post summaries to work?

Thank you, christiechirinos, for responding back to me. I really do appreciate the need for businesses like yours to earn an income. I did look at the two options for support and, frankly, they are too expensive for my (very small) client who is in start-up mode; I wish you had a single ticket price for just such issues.

It is just so frustrating to have had it work once, and then stop. I now do not believe that the template is interfering with the form function, as I have tested a number of different themes to no avail.

Again, I do appreciate you responding. It looks like Caldera Forms is a fabulous plug-in – when it works correctly. I’ll fiddle some more before moving on.

Hello Fellow WP Users – not to be a crank, but this issue (my issue) was marked resolved. Please move your conversation to another discussion thread as I am not involved in the plugin mentioned causing the issue with Sugar Events Calendar Lite, and do not need to see your conversation in my inbox. Thank you.

Hello, found out that another plugin was interfering with calendar. Once I disabled the plugin, the calendar worked as before. The interfering plugin was a shopping cart, FireStorm E-commerce.

As a WordPress/PHP neophyte I love lokrin2000’s suggestion of CSS options that one could choose from or modify. Indeed, in a perfect world, I’d love to see a system where one could create an HTML template that, along with the base CSS file, would customize the resulting blog template. For us non-PHP persons it is hard to work HTML into the various PHP pages. Creating an HTML header, page, sidebar, and footer layout concurrently with CSS and having it all pulled into the PHP would be fantastic. But I can only imagine how difficult that is to code.

FYI I use WP Framework as a base for the customizing I do for clients. It provides a nice, blank, modular theme from which to start the customizing, and is fully widget/plugin ready.

Okay, I did it myself (to my own surprise). The solution is to embed:

<ul class="navmenu">
<li><?php wp_list_pages( 'title_li=' ); ?></li>
</ul>

in the footer, and then customize with the class “navmenu”:

ul.navmenu, .navmenu ul { list-style-type: none; display: inline; }
ul.navmenu { display: table; width: auto; table-layout: fixed; }
ul.navmenu>li { display: table-cell; width: auto; }
ul.navmenu li>ul { width: auto; }

Don’t know how backward compatible it is, but it works in the latest IE, FF, Chrome, Safari, and Opera.

Gonna try one more time. Not being a PHP wiz or expert in WordPress beyond simple template customizing, I’m looking for a pre-made, existing, no-coding-needed plugin that creates a footer nav site map like my examples above, e.g.,:

Home      About Us      News      Purchase
Subpage   Subpage       Subpage   Subpage
Subpage   Subpage

Anybody know of/working on such a plugin?

Sorry I wasn’t clear in my request. I’m not looking to replicate my nav bar but to add a different styled one in the footer that looks like the one on the website example I mentioned (www.wholeworldwines.com). It looks something like this:

Home      About Us      News      Purchase
Subpage   Subpage       Subpage   Subpage
Subpage   Subpage

I’m hoping that there is a plugin for this kind of navigational menu for the footer. Hope that is a more clear explanation.

Okay, yes, using the link, I see it. But no, not in my copy and paste, not in Notepad and not in Expression Web. It wasn’t until I installed PHP Designer that the characters revealed themselves. Problems now solved. Thanks very much for the direction – I just don’t understand 1.) how they got there in a clean install (I assume because I had to edit wp-config.php, but a text editor shouldn’t be adding extraneous characters?!?), and 2.) why the text editor would not display them. A mystery for another day. So thank you whooami very much.

Also, FYI – that solves the cookie issue as well. So let others having that particular problem know to check for that.

Here is the wp-config.php file opened in Notepad and cut-and-paste via select all (password removed):

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'p******l');    // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'p******l');     // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', '********'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', '216.219.254.85');    // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix
$table_prefix  = 'wp_';   // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

// Change this to localize WordPress.  A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-content/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'
// to enable German language support.
define ('WPLANG', '');

/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
?>

I guarantee there are no extra blank characters in line 1. When I “Select All” the highlight does not show any, I cannot backspace from the <, and if I “Delete” at the end of the <?php if brings up the second line on to the first – and that causes a whole new set of error messages.

Okay, I tried turning the Norton Firewall off, and the cookies error still came back. (I also turned off most other protections too along with the Firewall). However, I will look through Norton forums for any leads.

On the plugins, I left the default installation Akismet in there, but did experiment with deleting the plugins directory, renaming the plugins directory, and deleting the Akismet directory all prior to my first post … to no luck.

As for themes, this is a fresh installation with only the Default theme installed – I haven’t been able to get into the Admin section to make any changes at all. It really is a pristine installation on a service that usually has no issues with WordPress. So, is this latest version causing more of these issues in general?

Thanks for the suggestion, but I already checked and made sure there was no blank character(s) after the ?> in the wp-config.php file … and the wp-login.php file as well. Any other suggestions?

Sorry you don’t like my “shouting”. However, with all of the other posts throughout the support forums asking for help on this same issue I think it needs to be taken more seriously. Some of those posts go back aways; this isn’t a new issue.

So, thanks for the suggestions, but the two are complete dead-ends. Redirect to what? Every file that is brought up in the blog wp-admin directory shows “???” with no code. So redirecting away from a blank page to “???” doesn’t really help me set it up and do entries.

The error log, with the original installation AND a fresh install AND another fresh install using SetupWP (excellent program, highly recommended) shows … exactly zip. No errors recorded (regarding WordPress) on any of the installations and subsequent attempts to log in.

So, in the effort to get my client up and running, I’ve had to resort to b2evolution – which installed flawlessly.

I still would like resolution on this though; despite the hours wasted on this install it is my preferred blogging software.