tdcarp

May have fixed it but not sure how.

Decided to try other networks that might be available (none would allow a connection). Disconnected from the Starbucks network and connected again. Was able to edit a Page after that.

Will keep an eye on things to see if the problem returns. Any ideas about what may have been happening?

Thanks!

Will look into the [gallery] shortcode. Might be a useful way to view media while doing content management. The site has about 60 pages and very small number have any attachments.

A good chunk of our review will be deleting/archiving.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by tdcarp.

Thanks, but my question isn’t specific to the theme. When I posted some of my first questions on WP I included it as fyi.

Am I correct that WP stores 3 instances of each Media image? If true, I assume one is a thumb, one is medium, and one is large. Correct?

Does one of those sizes “replace” the original image (i.e. if I add a 2048×1024 image, will WP store it or save one of its “large” sizes?

Are the image sizes separately identifiable for placement in Pages or Posts? In other words, if I want to have the thumb vs. the medium size, can I control that or does WP make some assumptions?

Thanks. I didn’t do a good job of asking my question. These a very, very simple.

You can see these pull-downs here:

https://greatermaplevalleyareacouncil.org/gmvacminutes.html

Thanks for taking the time for a great explanation. Like you, I’m sorta OK with the filters. I ran into the specific situation when messing around with styling (e.g. added <p>). Just understanding what filtering is and that it’s theme-specific is a great help. Since I’d prefer to stay “off the rack” when it comes to themes, I adjust to the theme practice in this case.

And I fully understand your “push” of theme-specific questions to those forums. Makes total sense. I’m still new enough to sometimes not recognize what’s theme and what’s WP, but will get better.

I think the SG-xxxxx family of themes recently changed to a new author so not sure what the level of support is going to be. Just the price of Open from what I can see.

Thanks (again)! I understand keeping this forum clear of particular theme topics.

I’m doing this work for a small local non-profit. I had them select a theme and it ended up SG-Double. They probably couldn’t have picked a more comprehensive theme. SG-Double is actually a child of SG-Window so it even complicates things like inserting a little custom styling.

For now, though I’ll do some testing based on your guess.

Thank you very much!!

This will not be a problem for me in the long run.

Is it useful to get a list of tags (for example) so as to know not to use them? Have you run into any circumstances where this “feature” is limiting?

Remember, I’m in WP “learn” mode.

First, thanks Liam for helping this forum. The stats indicate there are a dedicated few. Obviously, you’re one of them.

You’re response was perfect! It will be EZ from here to decide on an approach.

Tom

You did plenty!! Thanks.

I kinda understand the general approach. In a way, its cascading on steroids. SG Window seems to be the basic, and the others (SG-Double, SG-Circus, etc.) tweek toward a particular site use. For example, SG Double appears to be more for blog sites.

We may not even need any style overrides, but your reference to JetPack gives us an option if needed.

Thanks for taking the time.

Lisa, thanks for the post. I think I am following the codex properly, although this is my first journey into child themes.

I think the Moderator hit it. SG Double is part of a series of themes including SG Diamond, SG Grid, SG Window, SG Circus. When it got selected I noticed that there was a relationship but had no reason to figure it out.

Turns out that WP would not delete SG Window when I was deleting unused themes.

The good news is all I want is some simple custom css and to keep that from the main theme.

Stephen, if you have more insight into why the authors of SG put this structure together? It seems they have a design that has a base theme and then a selection of children based on specific design needs.

Thanks for the quick response.

May have found it!

There’s some description of “cannot define header….” errors on the net. One of the issues is that the <?php can’t be proceeded by spaces, nor can ?> be followed by spaces. Somehow the active theme’s functions.php got two lines entered after the closing ?>. Removed them and the login works. Will reinstall the theme to check, but I expect the lines were introduced locally.

Can now start testing the site migration.

Same errors when attempting to access login. Site looks fine.

This is just a backup and restore without any changes.

1. FTP entire site contents to local
2. Export db
3. Empty remote directory
4. FTP entire site files to server
5. Drop the db tables
6. Import the site db backup

• This reply was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by tdcarp.

I’ve not done a good job of explaining the most recent test. The change of the wp url settings was there in the previous test just to take advantage of the opportunity to see how the url change effected the links. I’ve eliminated that step.

The simple process being tested is the restore of a wp site, with no domain changes, and no changes in db.

I have a good files backup and a good db export for the test site.

This is the test:

1. Delete all files from the remote site
2. Drop all tables from the db
3. FTP upload the files to the exact same directory
4. Import the backup db

I’ll post the results

Shannon, thanks again for sticking with me on this.

I broke down the testing to isolate steps and reduce the variables. The last test was simply to check link addresses when I changed the wp setting url and then restore the site back to where it was before the setting change. I’m not actually trying to move the site yet.

1. Bkup current files and export current db
2. Changed the url setting in wp (just to see that it worked)
3. Restored the bkup of the current files
4. Dropped all the tables in the db and imported the current db backup

The site is there and all the links seem to work (i.e. the db import and file restore worked). I just get the errors when I access the login.php file.

I even rebooted my laptop, but the errors still remain.

Yes, the test site is on a subdirectory (testdomain.net/wp_testsite) and the url change also went to a subdirectory (testdomain.net/wp-testsiteNEW), but again, all the files and db were restored to their original state. The test didn’t include the migration.

I believe you that the migration steps are pretty straightforward, but this test is just a site restore.

Something still isn’t working. To simplify, I just changed the url in the WP settings, and then checked things like media links to make sure the change got propagated. Looks OK.

I then restored the original site files (remember this is testing, so I didn’t just change the wp url settings back). I can navigate to and within the site, but can’t login to the wp admin area, getting these messages.

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/wizardclown/public_html/wp_testsite/wp-content/themes/hashi/functions.php:627) in /home/wizardclown/public_html/wp_testsite/wp-login.php on line 402

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/wizardclown/public_html/wp_testsite/wp-content/themes/hashi/functions.php:627) in /home/wizardclown/public_html/wp_testsite/wp-login.php on line 415

I cleared browser cache, but no change. There are two non-wp files that are being restored along with the wp files: .ftpquota and .htaccess. I assume the ftpquota is being used by the host ftp service to manage any quota settings. Is the .htaccess file, restored along with all the wp files, causing an issue?