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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Need to Restrict Content w/Unconventional LoginThanks for the various ideas. Do you happen to have a shareable link to the forum you built which you referenced?
In our case, it turned out to be a PHP version issue. Our hosting provider had somehow downgraded our PHP environment. About the same time Anywhere Elementor threw errors on three sites other oddities cropped up across very low trafficked sites that had had NO changes to them. Plugins wouldn’t update, the Elementor editor wouldn’t load, etc. Just out of the blue.
I contacted the host again, and they discovered the PHP issue – something they should have done a couple weeks earlier when I first reported it. While it did LOOK like a plugin issue with Anywhere Elementor since turning that plugin off would immediately bring our sites back online, it was really a larger issue.
Once PHP was put back to the newer version ALL of the issues went away.
Wow – 24 hrs. no reply. Kind of a critical issue when a website is taken completely offline.
Unfortunately, I discovered another of our 15 sites that uses AE also offline: restoresgf.com When I rename the AE folder, the site comes back online, but THIS time it’s costing us an entire page of content.
I could probably rebuild that page with other tools, but the only way to get to the content housed with the Anywhere plugin is to have the plugin activated. As soon as I do that, the site generates a critical error. I need to at least be able to see the content within the AE plugin so I can copy/paste it into other page widgets or in some way rebuild the pieces of our sites that were using AE.
Thankfully only three of our fifteen WordPress sites have AE installed. Oddly, the third one is still online. I looked at other plugins common to the three sites and found only one – Kadence Slider – that was used on BOTH the offline sites. Despite that plugin not being updated recently, I tried deactivating that one instead of AE, but to no avail.
The only other difference I saw in the site that was still online was that it was still using a slightly older version of Elementor. I tried rolling Elementor back to this same, older version on restoresgf.com, then activating AE. But it immediately goes into the critical error mode. Help!
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Conditional Menus] Simply Doesn’t Work at AllApparently, my own failure led to one of my menus not showing up. Turns out, there wasn’t anything in one of them! Duh! I’m embarrassed. I KNOW I created my second menu – the one that would be shown based on conditions, and I added some items to that menu. But I must have failed to save it after doing so, thus those items didn’t get locked in. So, of course, the empty menu wasn’t showing any menu options! The conditional menus are working just fine now.
I would like to change the title of this thread to “Works Great!” 🙂
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Conditional Menus] Simply Doesn’t Work at AllSeems maybe this forum is dead. I see very few replies to any topics. Does anyone have any other good options for doing conditional menus in WordPress? My “if-menu” option stopped working a couple days ago, thus I thought I would try Conditional Menus, but that’s not working at all either.
While WP is very flexible, it seems doing custom menus on different pages of a WordPress site is NOT very accessible. Almost no plugins that seem to offer this. What to do for the client?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Firelight Lightbox] Vimeo Videos Don’t Pop-upAh, ok. I was so hoping I wouldn’t have to create custom thumbnail graphics every time we want to add a new video. I was thinking there might be some way to have the Vimeo image for each video BE the thumbnail by just entering the video URL in a content widget. Thanks for the feedback.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Ads by datafeedr.com] Ads Won’t Randomize with WP Super Cache Turned OnI admit, it is doing much better today. Odd, since no code really changed. But I really couldn’t ever get more than the blue one to show last week with caching turned on. I just added another ad, and all three are now coming up randomly.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Ads by datafeedr.com] Ads Won’t Randomize with WP Super Cache Turned OnI may not have specified, but that is not the ad block in question. It’s the right hand column ad block that was not seeming to randomize. Also, my original post stated this:
“I finally found a setting in the WP Super Cache plugin to keep it from caching the home page, but that’s not a true solution, as the Ads plugin says it’s supposed to work even with caching plugins.”
Three browsers across two computers kept showing the same ad with no changes last week UNLESS I had told WP Super Cache to NOT cache the homepage. I just now unchecked that setting in WP and reloaded the page 14 times:
13 times in a row I got this ad:
https://sgfneighborhoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/BYC-SGFNN-ad-Web.pngThen I finally got this one, 2x:
https://sgfneighborhoodnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/trainLandlord.pngPerhaps it really is just a statistical anomaly that one ad comes up so many more times than the other, over several days, browsers, and multiple computers. With only two ads in that group, maybe it just doesn’t have enough to choose from to make it look random, but it’s odd that one shows only about 15% of the time, and the other one consistently shows about 85% of the time. I’ll continue to test.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Ads by datafeedr.com] Ads Won’t Randomize with WP Super Cache Turned OnOk, now I see what you’re talking about – the straight up and down quotes versus the slanted ones. Actually, within WordPress, the quotes ARE the straight kind, not slanted. It must be this forum that’s changing them to “smart” quotes. So, basically, we’re still back to my shortcode already being correctly formatted, but not randomizing.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Ads by datafeedr.com] Ads Won’t Randomize with WP Super Cache Turned OnStill again – the “updated” code looks identical to what I already have. What is the difference that I’m missing? The two shortcodes are below – mine on top, and yours on the bottom. Aren’t they identical?
[dfads params=’groups=143&limit=1&orderby=random&container_id=randomAd&return_javascript=1′]
[dfads params=’groups=143&limit=1&orderby=random&container_id=randomAd&return_javascript=1′]
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Ads by datafeedr.com] Ads Won’t Randomize with WP Super Cache Turned OnSorry, I’m not seeing any difference between the shortcode I provided and your shortcode – at least not within the []. Looks identical to me.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Ads by datafeedr.com] Ads Won’t Randomize with WP Super Cache Turned On[dfads params=’groups=143&limit=1&orderby=random&container_id=randomAd&return_javascript=1′]
I only added the “return_javascript=1” part after I noticed the ads weren’t randomizing last week. It didn’t change anything. My understanding (possibly incorrect) is that the “javascript” portion of the code is only for users without javascript turned on anyway. Javascript is definitely turned on in my browsers, so I would think it should definitely be working in my browsers, either way.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Timely All-in-One Events Calendar] How to Modify “Categories” Label?Thanks for the tip! 🙂 I think that will work for us – at least on this website. It’s a very easy, but also very limited plugin, in that it doesn’t let me choose where it applies the change. For instance, if I wanted to keep the word “Categories” for the article types, and only replace it with “Event Types” for the calendar, the plugin doesn’t appear to offer that flexibility. It would change “Categories” everywhere.
But, thankfully, it doesn’t look like we need to use the core word “Categories” on this site for the article categories.
Ah ha! I figured out a way to show the category avatar on stream view even when there is an embedded image in the event’s content block.
I added the category avatar into the content block as well, BEFORE the other image. Then, in code (text) view, I set an in-line CSS style on the avatar image with “style=display:none;”
Thankfully this worked! The event calendar sees the avatar image and uses it in the stream view, but the thumbnail doesn’t show up in the content area for the end user. The critical point is that the avatar must precede any other content images.
Sweet!
This still is really a workaround, and would likely not suit someone with zero code ability. It would be nice if there were a check box on an event that would say something like “Use category avatar for stream view.” Checking the box could then force THAT image ahead of anything else.
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