March 1, 2016

WordPress Help Needed…

rmiles7721March 1, 2016BBS

I could really use some help with WP from an “expert”

Currently shadowscope is installed in it’s own subdirectory off of my main site but I have it resolve to shadowscope.com

In order to do that I had to make sure that my .htaccess pointed in the correct direction. Everything seems to work OK. You can get to most of the pages and I can post things. For some reason, ALMOST every time I try to log in to the backend, I have to reset my password. I say almost because for some reason I was actually able to log in this time.

In addition, I can’t seem to connect my site to IFTTT. It used to be, but no longer will let me connect. Same with wordpress.com, I was able to write a post and publish it earlier (the first one of today, about InterBBS games) but it won’t let me save any posts now.

I’m pretty much at a loss and not sure what I need to do to fix it. A simple solution would be to get rid of the .htaccess and make everyone come to shadowscope.com/blog however my site has been up 17 years and I really don’t want to break any existing links in to the site.

Anyone have suggestions please comment, shoot me an email or PM me in Hangouts. I’ve got a ton of stuff on my plate and don’t feel like spending the next two days trying to dig up an answer.

Update.

I fixed it. The WordPress Codex has some good stuff here and I ended up having to fix the blog URL in one of the SQL tables in order to get it working properly. Since my site is under /blog and redirected using the .htaccess it was this bit.

In this event, double-check your wp-options table siteurl (WordPress address URL) and home (Blog Address URL) values to make sure they reference the same base externally available address; i.e., http://blog.yourdomain.com. The standard install may set them to your local (internal) host name, such as http://servername

Once I fixed the site URL all seems to be good.

 

Another Update. I spoke too soon. This is fucking irritating. I can’t connect IFTTT to my site, can log in about once every fifty times or so, wordpress.com loses connection constantly. Ugh. I think I may export all my shit and start over.

Primary Day

rmiles7721March 1, 2016Politics

So today is the primary elections here in Georgia. I had completely forgotten until a friend mentioned it in Hangouts just a little while ago.

Hadn’t planned on leaving the house until later but I guess I will go out pretty shortly. Have to go to the grocery store and get some fixings for a pork roast anyway, which is much more important than going to vote for any of the clowns on the ballot.

That having been said, I will go vote, today as well as in the general election in November. It’s a civic duty and nobody has the right to bitch and protest if they at least don’t cast their vote.

InterBBS Games

rmiles7721March 1, 2016Site News

Planning on adding several InterBBS games to the BBS pretty shortly. Rather than using my mailer and all the extra configuration I’m doing it the easy way and planning on using BBSlink.net as they already have a boatload of games set up and working properly. Planning on adding LORD, LORD 2, Lunatix, DoorMud, and Tradewars. They don’t currently run a BRE league so I may look into adding that the hard way lol in the near future.