TiltedSquare

You seem to be on the right track as long as you followed the directions for installing WordPress in a sub-directory in the WordPress codex.

Go to “Reading Settings” under “Settings” and change “Front Page:” to your desired home page and “Posts Page:” to your blog.

If you set up everything else correctly, that should do it.

It looks like a either a plugin or your theme is causing a jQuery conflict with the WordPress Dashboard.

You can use “inspect element” in your browser, and then go to “console” to see if there are any errors or warnings. This should lead you to the broken plugin. If you need assistance, feel free to post your findings from console and I would be happy to take a look.

Alternatively, if this happened after installing a plugin or changing themes, deactivate the plugins or switch themes to target what exactly is causing the conflict.

I believe your problem has something to do with the container div clipping over the “signup link”.

If you inspect the element in browser, you will see that the link is actually working.

A quick fix would be to add:

position:relative;
z-index:999;

to the .login_box div in your stylesheet.

I hope that helps out.

1. The gap below the footer is most likely due to the fact that the height of the content on the page does not exceed the height of the browser. This causes the footer to display where the content ends.

There are fixes for this issue. Check out https://www.cssstickyfooter.com for example.

Having said that, I am on a 15″ MBP and the footer is at the bottom without a gap below it. You may have already added more content to the page or fixed it yourself. Or, you may be viewing on a lager monitor.