jhaber31

Apologies. I wasn’t clear. First, I am well aware that most people rely on their phones now. I did wonder whether it was worth changing my existing style accordingly. A close friend finds it legible as is, but I sure do not.

Second, I’m aware that, if I make a transition, it need not entail a second css. As I understand it, one can, say, place a media query within the css, to adjust elements, making it a responsive style, and not in the html header to call up a media-specific css. (As it happens, many of my site’s headers link to a second style sheet for printing, no doubt unncessary but it works, and I did my work so many years ago that I’ve forgotten how it knows to go with printing.)

Third, alas, I’ll still have a serious learning curve and some tough decisions. For instance, while I’d probably suppress the sidebar to make more space, I’d lose the feature to search my site by artist name, unless I added it somewhere in the remaining column. I’d also need help with technical details. (Say, where to place the media query, what font size to specify, whether to suppress a column with display: none, a width of 0, or something else.)

Last, while free themes from WordPress may already be site-responsive, it’s not just that I’d have to test them. (And honestly, I do know that such themes exist, for goodness sake!) It’s also that I really need to work with my own style. It adjusts to my content choices and to an appearance that goes with content about contemporary artists and art history. If I go with one of those Hallmark images in the free themes, my readers would gag. Your link only shows me the bad choices.

Oh, wait, major breakthrough! After several reboots and, a major change of what has been causing some crashes, returning Windows 11 to a restore point before the most recent update, things are looking more promising.

Now I do see a Publish tab, but no longer in the second, right-hand column. In the first, main column, it appears below the text of a post and above categories and tags. The drop-down from Publish then shows the missing options to save and to preview. Great! Let’s hope it lasts, maybe even past my next Windows update.

Is there a way to restore the Publish menu’s place to the right of a post’s text box?

I did see Screen Options and did try checking all the options, but it makes no difference. Besides, the ones that hadn’t been checked don’t sound as if they had anything to do with empowering new posts and post updates. They were Excerpt, Send Trackbacks, Custom Fields, Slug, and Author. None of them have made an obvious difference. I’m inclined to uncheck them unless you can think of a reason not to.

Is it possible that I’ve lost the privilege to update my own Web site? That’s what the various missing fields (Save, Publish, Preview, Update) could have in common? Is there anything I can do about this? I tried looking at my profile and don’t see an option to declare myself administrator, and I honestly don’t remember how I set up the log-in in the first place quite a few years ago. Meanwhile I can’t add to unpublished posts, publish anything, or save a draft, or correct it. Not good.

Thanks for the quick replies. I bet you’re right that I must have hit a keyboard shortcut that hid an essential menu. Without it, say, I can’t save new posts or publish saved posts. So let’s see what we can do.

I didn’t know where to click in order to “focus,” but I tried hitting Alt+Shift+W, Alt+Shift+Windows, and Alt-Shift+G. None of them seemed to do anything. Of course, I’d also restarted the browser (which clears cache on exit, although I also cleared it manually and ran CCleaner) and restarted the laptop. Nothing has changed.

Is there another way to change display modes without a shoftcut? I looked at the left-hand options under Appearance and didn’t see anything promising (not, say, Headers), and I also looked under Settings. Is there another way to reset this?

Obviously I’m eager to be able to continue my work. FWIW, the built-in auto-save allowed me to add an unpublished post, although it didn’t save tags for the post.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by jhaber31.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by jhaber31.

Oops, you’re right. I should have looked over my plug-ins before posting. It’s one called Query Monitor, said to be a developer’s tool. Strangely, although I try not to add anything without a good reason, I can’t recall installing it (or why I did). Since I obviously don’t understand how to use it, maybe I should remove it? Are you familiar enough with it to think why I might have felt compelled to try it? It sure does offer a wealth of data.

With apologies, the problem has indeed solved itself with time. You’d think that wouldn’t be needed. I’ve tried, after all, clearing Firefox in History, Clear Recent History and checking under privacy settings for manage data. I’ve set Firefox to clear on exit. I’ve run CCleaner and rebooted, but none of this seems to help, only time. Maybe it’s a WordPress issue, and maybe WordPress has its own cache that somehow extends to every link from my home page, even in the static html folders.

Thanks. I shall try later or tomorrow. I must admit, though, to my doubts. Just yesterday, after all, it took deactivating the plugin to restore site access. Bear in mind, too, that your earlier support suggested no errors in AIOS that hadn’t been fixed in upgrades. Yet it was your latest upgrade the triggered the disaster.

Since then, I have installed WPS Hide Login and used it to set a custom login URL. It already matches the URL you give just now. Anyhow, we’ll see.

Thank you. I know you were trying to offer a thorough answer. Unfortunately, I honestly can’t follow it. Some lines don’t make sense to me, with the syntax “If X, Y. You have X, so Z.” In others, the stand-ins for variables confused me. I hae no clue what the secret word refers to.

But let me try to give more information. Right now, AIOS has been deactivated, then deleted. So the only consideration is whether to reinstall this plugin.

Now, you are correct that WordPress has been installed in its own directory (which you call “wp”). Thus the default login is https://www.mydomain.com/wp/wp-login.php. I believe you say that. You are also correct that, on installing WordPress, my designer also created a custom URL for login. Thus, it became instead https://www.mydomain.com/wp/custom. I believe you say that, too.

This worked just fine, and I remember it well. I had bookmarked the custom login, too. So nothing there caused a problem. However, on Thursday an update to AIOS did something wrong, and so neither URL worked, default or custom. That was my problem. I believe your first solution is to recognize the likely URL. But, as I just said, nothing seemed to work.

Eventually, deactivating AIOS fixed the issue, at the price of restoring only the default login. I may download a new plugin to customize it again. Not right now, but maybe later.

Anyway, none of this seems to explain what went wrong. Your quick response, for which I’m grateful, seems to say that it’s a bug AIOS already fixed. That can’t be true.

Your second solution asks if I had enabled brute force security in AIOS. I don’t recall, but nothing there recently changed. You also seem to say that it had not worked in early versions of AIOS but works now. Of course, my problem is new.

Last, you ask me to look for a different URL having something to do with a secrete word. I’m confused. You also mention a way of disabling brute force security without logging in, by adding a line to wp-config. With luck, we won’t reach that point, so I’ll leave the file alone.

So again: is it safe to install AIOS, and is there anything I should take care to do on installing it so that the problem won’t recur? Thank you.