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Bill MurrayMember
Just grab the current sample child theme and delete the media queries at the end of the stylesheet. Responsiveness will be gone.
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Bill MurrayMemberDeactivating a plugin does just that - it makes it so it is no longer active. In that state its code is not executing. So deactivation will get you essentially back to the state you were before you activated the plugin - except for the options the plugin wrote to the database.
Some plugins provide an option to delete plugin settings on deactivation, but most don't. Most users want to keep plugin settings on deactivation because deactivating plugins is a common troubleshooting technique where a plugin is deactivated only for a short period. If you ever want to go back to Better WP Security, you can simply re-activate, and any configuration work you did is still intact because the options are in the DB.
If you don't want to use Better WP Security, you can look through the database, find the options settings for that plugin, and delete them. However, you have to do that with extreme caution, because some options might not be clearly labeled, and if you're not familiar with doing this, it's easy to delete the wrong thing. Having a few unused options is not a big deal, but if you are regularly activating plugins just to test/evaluate them, you shouldn't be doing that testing on a live site.
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Bill MurrayMember@moeblis - In an effort to give you a quick answer, my previous answer was too simple.
For Clip Cart, there are a # of things going on that relate to your question:
1) how products are sorted in the dashboard
2) how products are sorted on the homepage
3) how products are sorted on the products archive
4) how products are sorted on a product category archiveMy original answer covered sorting in the dashboard, and there is a filter to control that, but I'm guessing that's not really ALL that you want. You really want to do all 4 of the above, and changing #1 is heavily tied to which cart you use. (If you don't, you should want to do them because otherwise you'll have inconsistent ordering on different parts of your site.) #2 & #3 involve page templates, where #2 involves home.php and #3 involves the the page template page_products.php. I'll give you the details on fixing #3 to get you pointed in the right direction.
There's no filter to fix #3 because the query is directly in the page template. If you change the page template, you won't have the flexibility to stick to ordering by your Cart66 ID. Therefore, you want to create a new template with a different query. Here's a new page template that will display the archive of all products in ascending title (product name) order. To use it, just copy the code to a new page template in your child theme folder, such as page_prodtitle.php. That will cause a new template named "Products Sorted By Title" to appear in the Template pull down of your add/edit page. Choose that template for your Products page and you'll get what the title implies - products sorted by title.
That should give you an idea of what is involved. It's not overly complicated, but if you're not a PHP programmer, you'd be better served by someone who can do those customizations for you.
https://gist.github.com/wpperform/5573854
Hope that helps.
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Bill MurrayMemberFair enough. I over-reacted, since I didn't click through to your site until now. Still, assuming everyone on the forum is a sweethearts and not worth worry, you should worry about the strangers who glean that info through Google that you never meet on the forum. And remember, not everyone on the forum is a sweetheart because there have been spammers who were hitting the forum with a barrage of posts not that long ago.
If you are referring to the Products link on your WP dashboard, you're right that it's a ClipCart issue. Those products are a custom post type. Unfortunately, their order (as far as I know) is not filterable. By that I mean, the developer of ClipCart didn't build in a function to change the order without changing the theme directly.
The code for sorting products is in clip-cart/iib/functions/themedy-products.php in the function themedy_sort_products(). If you have Cart66 active, Themedy orders the products by the Cart66 product ID. I hesitate to tell you a small change for the order of the custom post type, because that can have a lot of unintended consequences. You could try reaching out to one of the guys @ Themedy to see if they'd do that for you as a customization.
Hope that helps.
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Bill MurrayMemberHere's an important suggestion: change that password, and do it pronto. You should never post a password openly on a forum like this. Make it the very next thing you do in life after reading this message.
ClipCart doesn't store products on its own. It's a theme that leverages either Cart66 or WooCommerce. The answer to your original question will depend on which shopping cart you're using. You'll probably get your question in front of a wider audience if you ask it in the support forums for those respective shopping carts.
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May 13, 2013 at 10:05 am in reply to: WP corrupted after installing and using Genesis Responsive Header plugin #40673Bill MurrayMemberSo, WP id's you as someone who is "cheanin" and forum readers should help you? What is the world coming to... 🙂
On a serious note, my quick reaction is to use FTP to delete or rename the plugin's folder. That will cause it to be deactivated automatically, something you can't do manually since you can't get to your dashboard. If the plugin is the source of your problem, that ought to allow you to reclaim your WP dashboard.
Another thing to try is to delete site cookies for the offending site on each PC where you can't log in.
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Bill MurrayMemberYou're sort of asking the wrong question because so much in WP happens before a theme is loaded. If WordPress supports a PHP version, Genesis and its themes will support it. WP itself only requires a version of PHP that is older than 5.4 but core WP 3.5.1 runs fine with 5.4. A better question would be, are there issues for WordPress sites when PHP is ugpraded from something older to 5.4?
The simple answer is yes, there can be issues, but the issues depend on your configuration. The plugins you use impact the number of issues. Some plugins may have no issues; other users with a different set of plugins have reported problems. People have also reported password issues where a DB password in the wp-config.php file isn't recognized after an upgrade to PHP 5.4.
That said, PHP 5.4 has been out for a while, so many of the problems reported by others may have been due to the fact that they were running older obsolete plugins or versions of WP.
Your best bet is to do a web search for wordpress 5.4 and some of the specific plugins you use before you upgrade. That will help get you prepared for problems you may encounter. Any general advice you receive here won't be specific enough to your situation to be of much help.
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Bill MurrayMember1) You have a number of modifications in that file. Were those modifications working prior to this change? In other words, if you delete only lines 164-171 of the file, does your site function normally?
2) I think you have to decide whether you'll use Simple Hooks or code in functions.php to modify postinfo. If you're going down the path in this thread, you'll have to remove the code in Simple Hooks and not load anything else related to postinfo. It's too hard to debug with competing sets of code trying to change the same thing. If you've tested #1, ditch the postinfo code in Simple Hooks, put the code in question back into your functions.php per the Pastebin, give it a shot, and post the results.
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Bill MurrayMemberGenerally speaking, you can paste code snippets, provided you do it correctly. The code snippets are pretty reliable; if there were an error, I'd bet that it would be promptly fixed.
If you're not familiar with PHP, even a small typo can break your site. So you may find it safer to stick to Simple Edits.
You also said you're using Simple Hooks. Did you put the code in your child theme functions.php? Or in Simple Hooks?
On a quick look, the code itself seems fine. You'd paste the code after the starting tag. Normally, at the end of the file works well. Don't paste it in the middle of an existing block of code.
If you're still having trouble, you can get your site back up by replacing your broken functions.php with a known good one. Then, to resolve your question, you can paste your functions.php to a Pastebin and paste the link in this thread.
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Bill MurrayMemberBe careful with security plugins. They are often used as a fix for those who don't have the technical skill or the desire to invest the time or money to go a better route. I don't mean that as a knock on anyone, and there are a lot of security plugin developers who spend a lot of time addressing weaknesses in common WP setups for those who can't/won't address them themselves. Security plugins have a big negative impact on site performance. Most very experienced WP site admins operate without any security plugins. If you're adding a lot of security plugins, you're doing it wrong.
If you ...
a) never allow usernames like 'admin' or 'root'
b) never access your site with FTP and only use SFTP or SSH
c) set up your WP install so that you can not upgrade plugins from the WP dashboard (difficult, I know)
d) keep core WP, plugins, and themes reasonably up to date
e) run anti-malware/anti-virus software on any machine used to access your webserverthen you really don't need any security plugins.
If you really insist on installing one, you can consider Bad Behavior configured with minimal logging. That will block some bad traffic, but this kind of effort is better/faster done at the server level, not in a plugin.
We run a WP network and see many (sometimes thousands) attacks per day. The guidelines above keep us very secure.
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Bill MurrayMemberYou need to set a background on body (such as a dark color) and then restore the background you want by setting a background on #wrap, about line 353 of your child theme's stylesheet.
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Bill MurrayMember@bleubeard - Is this an issue for you as well?
The advice Peter gave is accurate. You can add Google fonts by either a) using an @import rule in the stylesheet (Peter's advice) OR b) using wp_enqueue_style() in your child theme's functions.php. In other words, do 1 or the other, not both.
Metro uses method (b). You can stick with that or change it.
All you need to change is the URL. This is the value that is in single quotes in Peter's example. It's the 2nd parameter of the call to wp_enqueue_style() in the Metro functions.php. You get that URL from Google's web fonts site based on the fonts you want to load.
Peter's method is safer, because a typo in CSS won't break your site, but a typo in your functions.php will.
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Bill MurrayMemberIt looks like you are displaying only the secondary menu, not the primary navigation menu. Without coding changes, the date is only available on the primary navigation.
First, visit Appearance->Menus and make sure you've specified your current menu as the primary navigation menu.
Next, double check your settings in the Navigation metabox of your Genesis menu.
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Bill MurrayMemberTo clarify, is Unbounce registering users on your site (ie, they show up in your WP dashboard as users) or is Unbounce collecting data in a form similar to a subscription form? As far as I know, it's the latter, so the users aren't registered on your WP site.
Examples of content protection plugins are Premise and S2. There are many others. You might also be able to use a plugin like Easy Digital Downloads for this.
The problem that you'll run into is that any effort to perfectly secure the PDF will make it harder for visitors to your Unbounce page to get it. If you make it too hard, you're hurting the effectiveness of your landing page.
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Bill MurrayMemberVisit the Screen Options in the upper right of the add/edit post/page and enable the metaboxes appropriate for your needs.
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Bill MurrayMemberAre you sure those are registration forms? Unbounce has tools for you to collect contact info, but that's not a registration form at least as that term is used in a WP context.
If you want to protect content, you'll need a real registration form, and visitors will have to meet your registration requirements to get access to the content. Examples of plugins that do this are Premise and S2. That might be more work than a typical visitor to an Unbounce landing page will put up with, so you may find your conversions dropping to very low levels.
You might want to consider putting a link to the PDF in your auto-response email. If you want to close the door a little more, you could put the content on Amazon S3, and use an expiring link; of course, that runs the risk that a legitimate contact can't get access to content when they need/want it, producing an angry potential customer.
Short of requiring an Unbounce visitor to register on your WP site and using a content protection plugin, there's no way to make the content available on Unbounce but protected from someone opening the PDF via its URL.
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Bill MurrayMemberIt looks like you've got this sorted out where you opted for a border on the nav instead of taking the background full width. If that's not the case, post back and I'll take another look.
You can replace this:
margin: 25px 0px 25px 0px;
with:
margin: 25px 0;
They will both have the same result.
If you set a height property on #nav and the height is bigger than what the calculated result of your other properties would be (margin, padding, border, font size, etc), then you will produce the effect of pushing down the content below the #nav.
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Bill MurrayMember@DanielJLewis Glad it's working.
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Bill MurrayMemberRight now, your ID #nav has a negative margin on line 275, as in:
margin: -20px 0 30px;
That's the cause of the double height you're seeing.
As for the background for the menu, add your background to the nav ID, the same ID that has that negative margin issue.
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Bill MurrayMember@futurewebbos - I'm not sure what you were trying to do by marking a response as private, but marking it that way means that only moderators see it. I'm not a moderator, and no moderator has replied in this thread, so it's not likely that the private reply will catch someone's attention or get a response.
I see a lot of private replies on the forum, and I think its use isn't very well understood. The little checkbox at the bottom could come with a better explanation.
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