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Hi Davood,

Closing the loop here. There was an issue with my htaccess file, that the kind folks at Dreamhost fixed for me. That solved all the issues—-including apparently, the issues my site was having communicating with WP to authenticate users.

The CSA said:

I then turned my attention to getting HTTPS to work consistently and I
think I was finally able to do that once I updated your .htaccess
anti-hotlink code to use HTTPS.

I’m a little confused as how an issue that predated the switch to https could be fixed in this way, but also: just glad it’s working. Tested it a few times and the issue is no longer occurring.

I doubt anyone else will run into this same issue, but just in case: that was the fix.

Thanks again for your assistance.
Zack

Okay. Getting there. My panel was adding a WWW and WP was removing it so I was caught in a loop. Now I’m back in and I’ve installed the RIGHT Health Check plug-in this time.

Here’s what I’m seeing:

The REST API encountered an error Performance
The REST API is one way WordPress, and other applications, communicate with the server. One example is the block editor screen, which relies on this to display, and save, your posts and pages.

The REST API request failed due to an error.
Error: [] cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

Your site could not complete a loopback request Performance
Loopback requests are used to run scheduled events, and are also used by the built-in editors for themes and plugins to verify code stability.

The loopback request to your site failed, this means features relying on them are not currently working as expected.
Error encountered: (0) cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 10000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

Thanks Davood.

I installed WP HealthCheck and it flagged that my site didn’t have https set up, so I ordered a cert through my host, and that’s active now. I also flushed the object cache. I didn’t get any other errors.

Ran another comment test and there’s been no change.

I appreciate any other assistance you can provide! Is there some way to reset the approved commenter list? I’m wondering if the db got corrupted or in some other way disconnected from WP so those logins aren’t registering…?

okay. reporting on SOME success in case others want to try the same thing.

your code works but only BEFORE one uses the tag list to sort the images. once the sort function is applied, the list order reverts to an unsorted list.

here’s what I’ve done (with much help from a friend at PiP Coders)

I added:

/**
 * Implement the custom sort for gallery search 
 */
function gallery_sort_search_enqueue() {
  if ( is_page( 'i-like-to-watch' ) ) {
    wp_enqueue_script( 'gallery_sort_search', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/gallery_sort_search.js');
  } 
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'gallery_sort_search_enqueue' );

to the end of the functions.php file of the theme I’m using (a modified version of Oxygen).

then I uploaded your code in a file called gallery_sort_search.js in my theme’s js/ folder.

so you can see that the tags sort alphabetically here: http://www.standbyformindcontrol.com/i-like-to-watch/

but if you use the sort function, no love.

if you have any additions/edits to your code that will carry over once the sort function is applied, that would be tidy.

yeah. i’m set to Pacific but it’s showing UTC time. not a big deal or anything; call it a low-priority feature request.

looking forward to making some more quizzes. thanks again.