Ronnie_Fantastic

Please do… I’d like to be able to use that account, if I could get it working.

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I’m afraid… the only solution I found, was to purchase hosting elsewhere, which worked without a problem, with the exact same WordPress site, same theme, same plugins… everything exactly the same.

Funny someone should pip up with the same problem right now, as it’s literally just a couple of days aho I logged back into my GoDaddy managed WordPress hosting to see if the problem was still there, as the same site has no outgrown it’s current hosting and keeps falling over when they get traffic spikes. I remembered I originally picked the GoDaddy managed WP hosting because of the generous traffic allowances, and I hadn’t cancelled the account because I’d been struggling on with it too long to get a refund.
Alas though… I still can’t do anything with a wordpress installation on that account.

Can’t even install a theme now.

I also tried ftp, sftp… everything to try and get it working last time round, to no avail.

GoDaddy support were great in that they spent plenty of time with me trying to figure it out, but in the end… as they couldn’t ‘see’ the problem… they couldn’t fix it.

NOTE: I had a few friends log in from different, locations, machines and a variety of OS’ and… the problem only seemed to appear with Win 10 machines. BUT… at least one other person using a Win 10 machine told me they couldn’t see any issues (I neglected to ask if it was home or pro version), and the GoDaddy support team assured me they had tried from a Win 10 machine, too. (I was told the support centre machines we running Win 7, but the advisor I spoke to assured me he had someone else check it from a Win 10 machine.)

I like GoDaddy. My standard deluxe hosting account had no problem running the same site that wouldn’t work on their specialist WP hosting platform, but… a few sites I’ve been doing for people now are sites that are getting growing traffic, so… if their Managed WP option isn’t working…. I’m forced to look elsewhere.

Sorry I wasn’t able to come back and let everyone know that I had eventually found a fix. ??

Hi Jackie, and Daniel.

Thank you both for your replies and suggestions.

Jackie… Both myself and GoDaddy support have checked the wordpress installation, and there isn’t any errors that either of us could find. I also went through the process of disabling all plugins, etc. I even created a completely new, fresh, wordpress installation on that hosting package, and I’m still having problems.

I’ve come to the conclusion that this isn’t a wordpress or hosting problem. It appears to be a local problem. I’m just utterly baffled why it would be affecting two of my machines.

The only thing they have in common is that they’re both Win 10 machines. That said… I had a friend log in and check from his Win 10 machine, and he had no problems.

So… while I’m not sure how, or why… I’m thinking these two machines have developed a disliking for the domain/ip address for my wordpress hosting account.

That’s the only thing I can think of. since it affects all browsers and even ftp connections.

So, as it’s not a wordpress issue, I don’t expect anyone to help me here. But of course… if anyone has experienced a similar problem with their computer and figured out how to fix it… I’d be all ears. ??

Thank you both for trying to help me out, tho.

Very much appreciated.

Del.

I’m a little confused… have you guys properly looked through the plugin’s settings, etc?

Have you looked at the tabs labelled ‘usage’?

Have you seen these instructions…?

The following example shows how to setup content for display in a lightbox. You will need to create a link to the content that contains a class that has the same value as the Link Class for the inline lightbox you are using.
Inline HTML Link Name

You will also need to set up a div element to contain you content. The div element that contains the content must contains have and id with a value of the Content ID for the inline light box you are using. Finally if you want the content to be hidden until the visitor clicks the link, wrap the content div with another div and set the value for style to display:none or assign a class that has display:none for a property

<div style=”display:none”>
<div id=”lbp-inline-href-1″ style=”padding: 10px;background: #fff”>
Inline Content Goes Here
</div>
</div>

I’m no expert at this, or any other web stuff for that matter, but… I am persistent and will experiment with something for a while to see if I can figure it out.

If I can’t, then I’ll reluctantly go looking for help.

All I’m saying is… I’ll go a ways down the road with something, get some help along the way if I have to… before I’ll just write something off as being terrible and tell others to avoid it.

This plugin does work. It takes a little work to get to grips with it, but no more than plenty other plugins I’ve come across.

Don’t forget… like a huge number of other plugins… it’s free, made by someone who believes they’re contributing to the WordPress community.

I obviously can’t speak for the creator but, he does clearly state in one of the sticky posts at the top that he’s a one man band and only has limited time for support issues.

In the meantime… we can help each other out.

Describe a problem… ask a question… don’t just say ‘it doesn’t work, it’s rubbish’.

I’m sorry John, but it really sounds like you hadn’t read through the instructions as your post seems to suggest the plugin is devoid of any instructions whatsoever, which simply isn’t true.

If you couldn’t find a menu item added to your dashboard for the plugin, then it didn’t install properly, and you’d need to reinstall it.

Anyway… I’m happy to share what I’ve learned of it and answer questions if I can.

On the lightbox settings page of your admin… assuming you obviously have secondary lightboxes switched on… just scroll all the way down the settings page until you reach the (default: 5) secondary lightbox settings.

You can set each of them to have different sizes. Then you just need to make sure you use the correct secondary lightbox ID for the content you want to open at the size associated with that particular secondary lightbox.

Never mind…

I’ve obviously been at my computer waaaayyyyy too long.

I took a break, ate something, watched some TV and came back to instantly spot… I hadn’t checked the ‘use on this page/post’ box.

Face… meet Mr Palm. ??

Move along… nothing more to see here. LOL.

Hover your mouse pointer over ‘appearance’ in your WordPress admin and you’ll see ‘Lightbox Plus Colorbox’ as a sub menu item.

All the controls you need are in there.

LOL… now it’s gone???

I cleared browser cache, and was even viewing it in a different browser, but it seems like there was some time delay between me doing what I did to try and get rid of it, and it actually disappearing from view in other browsers.

Anyway… it’s gone, so… problem solved.

Thanks for checking it for me anyway, Peninah.

Much appreciated. ??

Hi Peninah,

It’s the text ‘Ronnie Fantastic’ that appears right at the top of the screen, above and to the left of the logo badge.

It was appearing just above the ‘Home’ button and was a link to the home page.

I removed the site title and tagline option via the ‘customize’ options, and… it moved the text up to the top of the page where it is now???