samuelthomson

I…I…ok, not sure HOW exactly, but I’ve made some progress somehow…

I think I did the following in this order:

– Remove ENTIRE contents of the public_html folder
– found a saved version of this folder from ages ago and deleted the BigSquare theme from it.
– uploaded the rest of this folder to public_html
– installed the Trending parent theme
– created a new child theme using very basic settings
– created a 2nd new child theme in a similar way for the 2nd blog
– activated both of these and tested them
– downloaded a fresh version of BigSquare
– activated it for the 2nd blog

now I seem to have both themes working…

I guess Ill see if they are both still working after I make some adjustments to the Big Square theme

thanks for your help, I’m hoping thats it, but I guess I might be back here within the hour

Ok, just to backtrack, I tried it with trending_cgportfolio (where I only changed the name) AND also I tried it with a version of the fresh downloaded child theme sample that I linked to, with exactly the same results. As I recall, even the specified lines (eg, 272) were the same.

I already signed up to Justin’s $25 support service, I’m waiting for him to get back to me about it.

In the mean time, I’m backing everything up and basically preparing to totally re-write the blogs. This sounds like overkill but I havent been able to get to the bottom of this

Hello, I tried re-installing the theme from scratch but the problem persisted. I also tried replacing the entire “public_html” folder with a version that worked previously and it still persisted.

I’ve now tried switching themes to a theme called “trending”, which worked fine until I tried to create and activate a child theme, then I got a very similar error message:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _verifyactivate_widget() (previously declared in /home/artistf/public_html/wp-content/themes/trending_cgportfolio/functions.php:44) in /home/artistf/public_html/wp-content/themes/trending/functions.php on line 272

I dont have any activated plugins, can you recommend anything else?

OK, thanks again for clarifying that.

Once it has been removed, is it worth trying to re-install it from scratch, or is it always going to mess up?

I’ll start trying to re-instal it anyway.

Thanks for your help Ipstenu,

I actually replaced the whole “public_html” folder with a previous version. I can now access the dashboard but only in a really weird way. Basically I keep getting this error message:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare _verifyactivate_widget() (previously declared in /home/artistf/public_html/wp-content/themes/big-square-1.2/bigsquare/functions.php:16) in /home/artistf/public_html/wp-content/themes/big-square-1.2/bigsquare/libs/functions/functions.php on line 134

This error seems to occur whenever I try to load a page of the dashboard for my blog that uses the “bigsquare” theme (or any page of the actual blog). I get round it by going to the file specified in the error message and replacing it with an old version of “functions.php” and refreshing the page that gave me the error message.

This allows me to access the required page, but I have to do this every time I try to load a new page on the dashboard or the actual blog.

All my plugins are de-activated for both blogs, and for the multisite network in general.

I could try deleting the “big square” theme folder, re-installing it from scratch and then customizing it again, but
a) is that necessary (because I spent ages customizing it)?
b) will I just end up in the same position again regarding additional themes?

Is there a problem with using different parent themes in general, or should I be able to figure this one out? Like I say, everything was working fine before I tried to activate a second theme and I thought that replacing the whole “public_html” folder would at least put things back the way they were, but now something must be changing the “functions.php” file.

sam

Amazing! Thanks very much, that seems to have totally helped me out.

If it helps anyone else, I did the following:

1. Log in to my initial (first) wordpress site that has the “multisite” feature set up and the “WordPress MU Domain Mapping” plugin installed:

1. Go to “my sites”>>”network admin”>>”sites”
2. Deleted all sites apart from the first, initial site
3. Added a new site with the “site address” as “portfolio.domain.org” and title as “portfolio”(everything else I left as default)

4. Logged into my hosting account Cpanel and DELETED the “redirect” entry for my parked domain,”domain.info”(this was previously redirecting to “domain.org”, it now doesn’t redirect anywhere)
5. Still in my Cpanel, set up a subdomain entry for “portfolio.domain.org”

6. Went back to my main wordpress dashboard, went to “my sites”>>”portfolio”>>”dashboard”
7. Logged in to my dashboard!
8. Went to “tools”>>”domain mapping” (still in the secondary site’s dashboard)
9. Entered “domain.info” in the text field and checked the “Primary Address” button, then clicked “ADD”
10. Checked the URL, and “domain.info” still points to my secondary blog.

Again, thankyou very much. I’m not exactly sure how many things I previously had going wrong, but it now seems to work fine!

I don’t know if this is relevant, but it is certainly unexpected.

If I set up a domain mapping from my “network admin” dashboard with the details of my 2nd site, by entering:
Site ID: 2
Domain: Domain.info

Then suddenly everything redirects to my first site, by which I mean that entering “domain.info” (2nd site)as a URL redirects to “domain.org” (1st site)and entering in my login details for the “domain.info” dashboard logs me into the “domain.org” dashboard.

Also, if I go to Network Admin>>Sites, there is nothing listed under the “mapping” column for either site.

Does this sound relevant?