dirtvoyles Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 I was updating the blog's index due to a plugin, and tonight I was updating the main index page. Unfortunately, Nvu was still set to write to "blog" and I didn't catch it in time. Can anyone offer ideas to recreate the WP index page? I'm desperate, and locally this blog is important. blog.danvoyles.us danvoyles.us Thank you all in advance! Quote
joefish Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 The main index.php for WordPress is not a commonly customized file. Can you just reinstall the original index.php from the installation package for whatever version you're using? You can find archived downloads of many versions of WP here: http://static.wordpress.org/ If you're looking for a specific version, I've got quite a few recent version saved. The newest version 2.0.7 is also available through the website. Installing that update would replace all system files. Is that a viable solution, or am I misunderstanding the problem? Quote
dirtvoyles Posted January 18, 2007 Author Posted January 18, 2007 Hokay, I'm an idiot. Since I wrote "index.html", and WP uses "index.php", all I had to do was delete the .html page. I am so sorry to bother you guys with this. MOD - feel free to delete this thread. Quote
dirtvoyles Posted January 18, 2007 Author Posted January 18, 2007 The main index.php for WordPress is not a commonly customized file. Can you just reinstall the original index.php from the installation package for whatever version you're using? You can find archived downloads of many versions of WP here: http://static.wordpress.org/ If you're looking for a specific version, I've got quite a few recent version saved. The newest version 2.0.7 is also available through the website. Installing that update would replace all system files. Is that a viable solution, or am I misunderstanding the problem? You had my issue correct, but I hadn't done what I thought I had done. Thank you for the help, though! Quote
TCH-Don Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 Dan thanks for the update. This may help others. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted January 18, 2007 Posted January 18, 2007 I stick an index.html page in my folder when I'm making major changes to my blog so that users don't see the finished product until it's done. When I'm ready to go live I delete the index.html and my site is served up. Quote
dirtvoyles Posted January 20, 2007 Author Posted January 20, 2007 That's a good call, Bruce. I hadn't thought of that. Of course, mine's not that big of a deal. Now RSS isn't working. Dang it. Quote
Head Guru Posted January 20, 2007 Posted January 20, 2007 We could restore it, if your account in on one of the servers in the new backup scheme, we have snapshot style backups every 12 hours for 7 days worth. Quote
dirtvoyles Posted January 21, 2007 Author Posted January 21, 2007 Bill, I thought about that, but luckily RSS isn't a big deal. Since my subscriber base is 0, they probably won't notice. Thank you for the suggestion, and I AM excited about the new backups! I'm just going to google how to change the default ~/rss/....... path and get that fixed eventually. That's what I get for not installing in the root directory. Admit it Bill, you just want me to be a guinea pig for the updates... Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted January 21, 2007 Posted January 21, 2007 Dan, there is something wrong with your feed link. Your feed link reads like this: >feed://http//blog.danvoyles.us/feed/ When it should read like this: >http//blog.danvoyles.us/feed/ Quote
dirtvoyles Posted January 21, 2007 Author Posted January 21, 2007 I noticed, but I can't find how to fix it. I'm not wise in .php. I plan to google a bit later and see if I can't get it going. Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted January 21, 2007 Posted January 21, 2007 I've been all through my admin panel and can't see anywhere you can set a link to your feeds. So I'm not sure how your links are being created. WP does the link by default. Unless you've added a plugin that is causing this. Or maybe it's something in your .htaccess file causing it. Quote
joefish Posted January 21, 2007 Posted January 21, 2007 That's actually a theme issue. Somewhere in your sidebar template will be something like: ><a href="feed:<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr>'); ?></a> Just remove the "feed:" bit. Some feed readers support that convention, some don't. That extra bit is in the WordPress default theme, so many themes based on it will have that as well. Quote
dirtvoyles Posted January 22, 2007 Author Posted January 22, 2007 Joe, thank you very much. I had come across that fix, but didn't think it applied to my issue. Bruce, Bill, Joe, - Thank you all so very much for your help! Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted January 22, 2007 Posted January 22, 2007 Thanks Joe, sometimes the obvious escapes me. Quote
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