sunrader

Yes, it’s you. I think DSketch was just answering your question about “find whether any other id exists super-ceding the rights of these two ids” saying there are no super-ceding rights in WordPress, but the account that accesses the host could be thought of that way.

Yeah, it’s confusing. It didn’t really matter where you registered the domain names (although it’s never here). They could have been different and it would be fine. The domain names, once you have them pointed to the host, will be two different folders (you’ll use cpanel or something like it to access them) and they will each have an installation of WordPress, which is just software in this context, not a service like the others.

Good luck

James –
All of my sites are either Mantra or GeneratePress. I know them both so that I can customize them so I stick with them. Been in since 2006.

I could tell you how I would fix those issues if I look at the theme but I think you need some CSS or, if you’re not married to that theme, go to one with more options. If you want specifics, you can email one of my sites.

Sorry WP guys, didn’t realize we weren’t supposed to post links.

It sounds to me like you just want an average WP site and you have run into someone who is being difficult. An average site like you are describing will not make a dent in their resources. Are you saying you have to use this host for some reason? There are hosting accounts that are inexpensive and much more helpful. If you are really that desperate, just start with wordpress.com for free while you learn.

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You were probably just experiencing the lag time that it takes a new domain name to propagate. The solicitations are spam. You can let google know you exist if it’ll make you feel better. https://www.google.com/submityourcontent/website-owner/

If it’s this one https://www.tranquilityproject.org/ you should change your tagline that is showing on the browser tab and, wow, that’s a lot of pink.

Before you start reorganizing and changing stuff, consider installing the WP Clone plugin. You will be able to make a backup in case things get messed up.

Well, the whole thing is about food, so a category named that isn’t really helpful. Maybe you want something like ingredients, techniques, and recipes.

Categories should be major topics that are covered on the blog so that the posts sort into them and make it easier for people to find things. Tags are more like search terms. They are not particularly useful as organizers and the tag cloud is losing popularity, too. Think of categories as what you might have on the main menu to help people find things. Then, in addition to the categories, the menu will also have one or two things that make the site work, such as an about page. I also think it’s confusing that your landing page and your what’s cooking page seem to have similar functions but the distinction isn’t clear. You need to decide if you want to land on an about page kind of thing or the blog posts. The term “education” also doesn’t really fit here. If that’s what you are selling maybe make your menu something like this with 5 items.

What’s Cooking (blog landing home page)
Special Ingredients
Tips & Techniques
Recipes
Cook with Adrian

The first is the latest post page. The next three are categories pages, mosts of your posts will be in one of these but they don’t all have to be. The 4th is your sales page and you can include a bio there so you may not need a separate about. Your daughter’s stuff should probably just be blog posts. Everything would fit into one of these areas. Tags aren’t really necessary but they don’t really hurt anything if you like them.

In case anyone else finds this in a search, I want to follow up. My host (Hostgator) finally said this:

“…when checking the Apache logs, noticed that your site was hitting a mod security rule:

[root@gator… /home…/elt.international]# grep …[error] [client …] ModSecurity: Access denied with code 403 (phase 2). Match of “rx (/wp-content/plugins/…)|(www/…php)|(www/admin/dashboard.php)|(/pl/download\\\\?file=http|/index\\\\.php/admin/…against “REQUEST_FILENAME” required. [file “/opt/…rules.conf”] [line “996”] [id “..”] [msg “JITP:…elt.in”] [hostname “elt.international”] [uri “/wp-admin/customize.php”] [unique_id “U-…”]

I went ahead and whitelisted this rule for you, and after doing so, your site stopped giving a 403 error message in the provided link.”

I still don’t understand it, but maybe someone else will find it useful to know what type of problem it was.

I’m in this field so this site interested me. There are a few visual things I’d say are not ideal. These are not in any particular order, just noting them as I see them. I’m looking at it on a PC in Firefox.

The light green active color on the menu links is not easily seen or attractive. The white background on the sub-menus also looks like an error in code. Perhaps make the white background transparent? The fonts and images are too large for the content, so they require more scrolling and load time than they are worth. Search category didn’t really search a category so its function is a bit confusing. Your header disappears on hover. You may be still learning some css tricks? I’ve only learned in the last couple years, so I know what you’re going through. ??

I’m picky about typography, but I think your typography has a mix of fonts that don’t suit each other well, the sans serif, serif, and decorative all together, don’t work so well, imo. I’d say choose two that balance each other well and stick with those. I like Georgia and Tahoma this week, Gill Sans and Times New Roman are nice, too.

The biggest issue is that the design leaves me confused about what the site is for. You are using a lot of stock images (and some that I would think maybe you don’t have rights to, like the Bad Teacher movie pic maybe?). I’d recommend you explore creative commons images instead. The stock photos make your site appear commercial and very much like many others, so it appears commercial but it’s hard to tell what you are selling, which seems odd.

I do see your stated mission on the about page, which is great, but the design doesn’t seem to reflect that. Eventually, I found a notice that you want to help students find schools in the U.S., but that was a search. As a professional in the field, I think some of your content is thin for the ESL field, which would not be unusual for a commercial site, but is for the stated purpose.

As a colleague, it only seems fair to show you my sites so you know where I’m coming from and can see my own taste and can discount everything I’ve said here. ??

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As a fellow ESL pro, I wish you all the best and would be happy to stay in touch to talk over the sites if you like.

You have a lot of great content and images. It’s the organization that I think is the problem. Also, I’m not sure what you mean by a theme that is able to do “pages with posts and other stuff”. They all, pretty much, handle pages and posts in the same way because that’s WP’s job. It’s how they are displayed that changes. What is it you want them to do exactly?

I can’t tell from your site because your organization is hard to follow. For example, what is the category Food, exactly? How is it different from Recipes? Why are there so many sub-categories and tags so that in your directory, many items have very few entries? Having too many is making it difficult to find anything.

As to the look, I don’t think you need it to be so over-sized (too much scrolling). For one thing, you don’t seem to have many comments, so you might turn those off or at least make them less obtrusive by not requiring all that info to comment.

Some things are dated, yes, but I think you should start by cleaning up the organization, then see what you need to do about the design.

If you answer what you want a theme to do, I can be more helpful, I think.

Btw, why the cryptic domain name?

First of all, your content is great, and that’s not so common so great job there.

My suggestion for the look of the blog would be to make all images inside posts and pages be alignleft and floatleft, because if they are on the right, the text next to them looks messy since it’s not justified (you could keep them to the right and justify right, I guess, if you prefer). In the posts that I saw that had images to the left, they were not float left so the space next to them was empty.

I think your header is fine.

The main issue I have is with navigation. Your menu is not descriptive and the items feel like they are in an odd order. In other words, I have no idea what they are before I click on them and I don’t expect to see about/contact/donate up front. I expect them at the right end.

The only thing I dislike is the animated swooping social media buttons. Even though they are very small, I think they look dated and unprofessional and my eye follows them every page so it’s a bit annoying.

This can really be a very good, interesting blog. Keep at it. If you want to criticize my latest, feel free, [ links redscted, please feel free to post your own topic with one link ]

They are all the original sizes so that didn’t do it for me.

I’m having the same issue. Some of the images will not show up. I have 9 images. The three that I uploaded most recently show, so I tried moving all the images to a new folder and reimporting them to WP Media. All show up with no issues in the Library but the six that did not show up before moving still don’t. The Add images to slideshow just shows broken link icons, even though they are all in the same place and show up in the Library.

Brilliant! Thanks. I think I assumed that the “Ignore sticky posts status” would only apply to the ones I was choosing. I would want the post to be displayed or not regardless of it’s sticky status. I can see how that would be wrong, but the instruction is not really intuitive. You might word it
“All sticky posts will be displayed unless…” or something like that.
In any case, awesome plugin. Very useful. Thank you.