quatermass

Discovered today that the WordPress admin page with the permlinks has the wrong setting.

I use fixed named links and it was set to ?p= type.

I altered it to named links. But any edited page still shows full named links.
So the database must be ok perhaps?

Any idea how one corrects this?

hi Andy, yes it’s the same structure as the old one.

I don’t know why it’s going to :

https://stuarthalliday.com/wp-content/themes/7color/style.css

as that file is in :

https://stuarthalliday.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/7color/style.css

This .htaccess file is in the root of the URL.

It reads.

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

But it doesn’t mean much to me.
But I guess it remaps paths and files?

The index.php which is in the root reads:

<?php
/**
 * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
 *
 * @var bool
 */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php' );

I’m really at a loss… ??

Hi Lisa, thanks for replying.

Unfortunately I don’t know what the WP_Options table should look like. It’s the same as when it was working if that’s any help?

As for the wp_config file, yes that’s in place in a subfolder of the root URL called wordpress. It has the new details as I use in PHPadmin.

Yes wordpress is installed into the usual subfolder /wordpress of the url exactly as it was in the old.

It wasn’t technically an empty tag.

It was like :

<div style="clear:both;margin-bottom:40px;">&nbsp;</div>

I don’t call that empty!

But I get your point! ??

The software should in any case warn the user it is about to delete the authors code and give a warning at least the first time!

I wasn’t….

Hi James, thanks for answering my query.

Interesting to note that.

I assume then that the visual mode is really meant for novices?

I guess I got upset over its destructive nature and I’ve now switched it off.

But I will miss the easy adding of small details. I’d been using a visual web editor recently and I found it’s easier to go this easy route when wanting to add some trivial adjustment to a style or tag.

Glad to hear there is going to be an proper WYSIWYG editor sometime and I’ll look forward to hearing about it in the months to come.

Or ask the WP Team to reprogramme it so that it doesn’t do this?

I can’t see why it needs to do this.

Can I ask then why it does this?

Why does it need to remove code to do its ‘thing’.

No other visual web editor does this.

It should at the very least have a warning alert that it does this.

Why isn’t it in the WP FAQ and how did the WP team think this was a good idea?

Very bizarre behaviour.

As a new WP user I can’t believe this.

If I use any other visual HTML editor it never strips my code.

Why is WP doing this!

There needs to be an option to stop it doing so.

It’s the most destructive button on the Edit page!