fl8rmaus

Thank you so much for your reply! I have been swamped and haven’t had time to implement, but if it is just doing this I am confident I can do it.

I did not want you to think I did not appreciate the answer. 🙂

Thanks again

Melissa

I currently have a page called Resources (not in menu, I don’t want our students or parents of students clicking on it and then being confused/asking lots of questions). This will house content for instructors only.

When I am viewing the page in the dashboard, in the Publish box to the right you can select Password Protected under Visibility. I have that selected just on this page, and a password set on it.

When I log out of my account (when I am logged in, it just shows me my content of course) and try the page I see the box to enter the password, and I type it, hit the button, nothing happens. I see the same blank page and the same password box and button.

I looked at just password related plugins, but they all seemed to piggyback on the existing functionality that I can’t get to work so I gave up on those and tried to troubleshoot the issue at its core, to no avail.

Would this membership type plugin utilize the password protection that’s built in? Or no? I am intrigued now, this may be a reasonable workaround (and of course I can also search for info on these plugins later, when it’s not approaching midnight…).

Thank you for this reply!

Melissa

Ok let me revisit this.

My client is hosted by YAHOO SMALL BUSINESS. Yes, I know they are the devil. I have no choice here.

I have tried using JetPack alone, with no luck.

I have tried adding WP-Mail-SMTP plugin, also no luck.

I’ve tried variations on all the settings available to me, no dice.

I’ve tried setting up a gmail account for him to send to – nothing.

I hear that Yahoo won’t let you send emails “from” anywhere else but your domain – I’ve tried playing with that idea, also with no result.

HE (the client) has told me that he “can’t send email to himself” – which sounds crazy to me. THAT might be the problem? I watched him send an email to himself, and it never arrived. He says it’s always been that way. So maybe the contact forms are working but Yahoo is blocking all my best efforts?

I am losing my mind over this. I’ll try another plugin (Contact Form 7 perhaps), but given all the mucking about I have done, and no emails to show for it, I have very little hope.

M

Well I upgraded to the most recent JetPack and it hasn’t helped. It functions sporadically. I have tried multiple people sending from various computers, sometimes it works sometimes not. The email is not going into spam. I’ve tried using various accounts for the email to be sent to (my hotmail, my gmail), that does nothing either.

Anyone have suggestions for a contact form plugin that consistently works? This is for a small business and we need it to work.

Thanks!

Melissa

New issue, just popped up. I was editing a page on the site I just moved, and now it’s not showing up.

This is the site

This is the problem page

Everything else is fine. Menus look ok, all other pages will load but this one will either give me a blank page OR if I keep trying to load it, a 500 Internal Server Error. The only thing I edited on the page was a link to another page within the site. I’ve gone back into the editor for that page, tweaked the code, copied the html and set up a new page, etc, nothing is helping me out.

The other odd behavior is that sometimes the editor will die (give me an error or blank page) too. And when I was nudging pages to see if I could figure anything out, I created a new page and added it to the menu… but it never showed up in the menu.

So it’s like all of a sudden it’s not letting me edit things. Maybe Yahoo is telling me to go to bed. Ha.

I am hoping that this is a temporary Yahoo problem, and that tomorrow morning the page will be back to normal and I can edit the site.

But for now I will ask – does this seem familiar to anyone? Anyone have tips on how to troubleshoot this problem?

Hating Yahoo more and more,

M

Regardless of what my instructor’s plan is, my point is that I cannot use them. So I need to find another way around my problem.

It is not an error message. It is a warning. It says:

Warning: Modifying this field will cause your permalinks to malfunction. We strongly recommend that you do not change this field.

Please note that this field should match the web address of your blog installation directory. If you chose to make your blog your home page when you installed WordPress, your blog was automatically configured to display at your domain. You should NOT change the value of this field to match your domain.

Which was not an issue on MY host, where I originally built the site.

No I have not called their support desk, because it’s not my account. I imagine they will not talk to me, as I am not the owner of the account and from what I have heard, they are abysmally uninformed about the more arcane issues people run into.

I am also reading their help pages, and it’s not very helpful.

Is there anyone out there who can give me some suggestions? I am thinking about putting a redirect into an html doc at the root level but then Yahoo help says you have to use an htaccess doc in order to make the html doc run php… which still equally screws up my world, since I can’t use them (and no I can’t change that – it’s not my account and I am stuck working with that we have!).

M

After digging around in the account, he apparently has the “Web Hosting Starter” plan.

I’ve already installed WordPress using Yahoo’s installer, and have imported the site I built on my domain, and it’s up and running and when I use the full path as it stands now, I can view it normally. So I don’t think that’s a problem.

My question is about redirects, and not messing up any SEO stuff.

Thanks!

Melissa

Problems continued, then found out Yahoo Small Biz gives you some importing tools (I’m not the main user so I don’t know their weird Yahoo ways). Decided I’d rather do that, as it appeared to work, and then do the nitpicky work of adjusting the settings and removing their Yahoo branded widgets after the fact to get the site looking like I wanted.

So it’s moved, and now I have new questions, which I will ask in another post.

Thanks again to those who replied! Good learning experience for me.

M