evankopelson
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Not receiving confirmation email to change admin email addressHi @veerajjadhav, thanks for sharing your experience here. I still have not been able to fix this. Nothing I’ve tried has worked. It looks like @lazykins has come up with the only workable solution which is editing the email address in the database with phpadmin. I don’t like editing anything in the database, personally, because too many things can go wrong, but I’m glad @lazykins you’ve been able to at least solve the problem on your sites. I don’t know how with so many wordpress sites in the world this can be an issue, frankly it has me baffled how we can be the only 3 people in the wordpress universe who have encountered this problem.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Not receiving confirmation email to change admin email addressThank you @lazykins I appreciate your reply. I agree it seems to be a glitch, and I’m sure it’s something a lot of people have encountered so it’s odd nobody here seems to be able to speak to this issue.
Wondering if maybe there’s a workaround…
1. changing my user email address for my main profile to the one I want to use for admin emails, then2. changing the admin email and seeing if that generates an email to my user account, and then
3. if that works, changing my user email back to the original email and leaving the admin email with the 2nd email address.
However, not even sure if step #2 would generate the email even if it matches the user email address :/
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Not receiving confirmation email to change admin email addressHi, updating with some more tags as it looks like nobody’s seen this yet…
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: My blog page is redirecting to static front pageInteresting development, leading to problem solved: I created a new blank page called The EK Blog with the permalink “http://evankopelson.com/the-ek-blog/” and then in my Settings –> Reading I assigned that page to be the Posts page. Lo and behold, it worked! You must be right deniskoo that there’s something funky going on with the .htaccess file or something that is messing up the /blog permalink. Unless or until I figure out how to clean that up, at least now I have a proper blog page that doesn’t redirect to the front page. Problem solved, for now 🙂 Thanks again for your help with the category hack.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: My blog page is redirecting to static front pageHi deniskoo,
Thanks for this response. I’m going to do this now, but before I start, to make sure I’m doing it right:
When you say above in #3: to update my link from /blog to /news “on my homepage” are you saying to create a new page called News with the permalink: http://evankopelson.com/news and then to change the Settings –> Reading for the Posts page to be the News page instead of the blog page (after assigning all the blog content to the new category called “news”)?
I was confused by “change the link on your home page” and not sure if you’re referring to the Blog in the menu Nav bar.
[update]: After creating the News category and marking all the blog content to be News, now I see what this does is calls up the category page for News, which essentially looks like a blog page. Very clever, and I appreciate it as a stop-gap measure because it works in the short run. Only in the long run, I’m still going to have to figure out somehow, how to have a proper front page for my blog.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Recommendations? Embedding Self-hosted VideosWHY IS NOBODY ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS? THIS IS OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT TO DO, I HAVE THE SAME QUESTION AND I’VE SEEN SIMILAR QUESTIONS UNANSWERED.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Streaming MP4 video – nothing worksDid anyone ever answer this question? I have the same question. It’s easy to embed video hosted from YouTube etc. but what if the video file resides on my own hosted server?
For instance, a 1-hour video when YouTube only allows 10 minute videos.
How do I code the page or where is the player to allow videos to be streamed onto a WordPress page if the video source file is on the hosted server and not with YouTube?
Why does it seem that NOBODY has this answer?
I have a 404 Error page on my site. It doesn’t ever show up because a bad url gets redirected to my home page. How do I make it so the 404 error actually shows when someone types a bad URL?
ps esmi much gratitude for taking the time to post the link. my apologies for expressing frustration it’s not at you, it’s my own technical ineptitude at the moment… please forgive me.
Thank you and I looked at that link and it is completely confusing to me. I am not a programmer. I do not understand HTML. I follow click-by-click tutorials and if even 1-click-direction is missing I screw it up. I need HELP. Not a research project with one article pointing to another and I have no idea what is relevant.
Please someone, SHOW ME WHAT TO DO.
Thank you tho, I just need someone who can explain things on a simple click-by-click level to a newbie who is in deep.