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Hi, I logged in to my site this evening and found that the left hand side bar content was missing.

Jenny, so did they explain what the issue was?

Hi, they didn't say what had gone wrong but did send me what they did to fix it. --- so I might be able to fix it myself if it happens again.

This is what they sent.

Hi Jenny

We have corrected the issue by going to Appearance>>Customise>>Widgets>>Content Sidebar, adding a widget of custom menu and the side menu as well as widgets are shown properly on your site now.

I have some tweaking to do to put my banners back though. :-)

interesting!

Hi all. Thank you for the tips.
Site support have sorted it.
J

Hi Jenny, I would contact site support for help. Irv.

Hi Jenny,
I had this happen to me as well. I have lost a lot of content, and I find my self rewriting all over again. Actually it is tome consu. I also lost a complete site that consist of 10 pages and 3 post. I can't locate it have no clue how to retrieve it. Some of it maybe technical and Google chrome will interfere if the contents are not in their standings.

To change the color of your theme. Go to customize or appearance.
Hope this helps!

Cheers and Laughter

Louisab

The other thing to be aware of is sometimes your browser can interfere with themes...so try another browser to see if it's the same there and clear your caches. Chrome tends to mess things up every now and again.....this is before you mess with your theme.

Mind you if you just updated your. WP theme, that could obviously be the reason.

OK thank you

I had something similar once when I updated WP, see advises by Fran perhaps this may help:

Thank you sounds pretty similar I'll have another play.

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Where has the content in my side bar gone?

Where has the content in my side bar gone?

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Hi, I logged in to my site this evening and found that the left hand side bar content was missing.

Jenny, so did they explain what the issue was?

Hi, they didn't say what had gone wrong but did send me what they did to fix it. --- so I might be able to fix it myself if it happens again.

This is what they sent.

Hi Jenny

We have corrected the issue by going to Appearance>>Customise>>Widgets>>Content Sidebar, adding a widget of custom menu and the side menu as well as widgets are shown properly on your site now.

I have some tweaking to do to put my banners back though. :-)

interesting!

Hi all. Thank you for the tips.
Site support have sorted it.
J

Hi Jenny, I would contact site support for help. Irv.

Hi Jenny,
I had this happen to me as well. I have lost a lot of content, and I find my self rewriting all over again. Actually it is tome consu. I also lost a complete site that consist of 10 pages and 3 post. I can't locate it have no clue how to retrieve it. Some of it maybe technical and Google chrome will interfere if the contents are not in their standings.

To change the color of your theme. Go to customize or appearance.
Hope this helps!

Cheers and Laughter

Louisab

The other thing to be aware of is sometimes your browser can interfere with themes...so try another browser to see if it's the same there and clear your caches. Chrome tends to mess things up every now and again.....this is before you mess with your theme.

Mind you if you just updated your. WP theme, that could obviously be the reason.

OK thank you

I had something similar once when I updated WP, see advises by Fran perhaps this may help:

Thank you sounds pretty similar I'll have another play.

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Hi I've just gone through course 4 lesson 9 boot camp about starting to get videos/screen casts produced for website. There are several products listed in the training but I ju

I wasn't aware of this function. PP has changed a lot since I've used it. Thanks.

I know, i used it loads for uni 17 years ago, and a few times for work but didn't really work in industry that required me to do presentations. So discovering some new stuff.

This should help. It's for PowerPoint 2010, 2013 and 2016

Oooo thank you. I'll take a look later this eve.

I think if your training is primarily computer based it looks as though screencast would be your best bet, for everything else PowerPoint if perfect.

I have seen powerpoint used in lieu of video on a number of sites. But I don't personally use powerpoint.

It seems very straight forward to do a regular presentation and load it to website. Not so straight forward to do the screen recording part but probably operator error.

Great question! I am anxious to read the responses that you receive. I use Office365 on my iOS system and this would be a wonderful reduction of my steep learning curve.

Hi yes, I thought the same rather than trying to learn something completely new - adapt use and develop existing skills.

I know from prior experience with PowerPoint that you do not record video within it. You record it in another manner and insert that video into the PowerPoint presentation. PowerPoint is designed for this integration. How to add that to our websites without slowing them down is the critical question.

It does have its own media video recorder, but yes essentially what you appear to need to do is record what you want, then load it into a presentation and edit it there before you're able to do anything else with.

I have not used PowerPoint in this, I have never heard of PowerPoint being able to record your screen... is that possible now?

With office 365 and windows 10 it looks like it is. As I've never done any screencasts or videos at all before on any platform I was just wondering if anyone had any experience of it. I'll be having a play soon.
I'm actually recording now to see if this works.

Oh wow! Let me know how it works out ;)

I managed to record me typing but haven't worked out how to upload it. Its not in a format that WA comments supports as its .ppt rather than jpeg etc...

I see, so it isn't a "video" but rather a powepoint presentation.

You can try this though:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-your-presentation-into-a-video-c140551f-cb37-4818-b5d4-3e30815c3e83

Pretty much, but power point does have its own recording feature then yes you're essentially creating a presentation to show the video.

Makes sense.

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Does anyone use power point for their screen casts?

Does anyone use power point for their screen casts?

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Hi I've just gone through course 4 lesson 9 boot camp about starting to get videos/screen casts produced for website. There are several products listed in the training but I ju

I wasn't aware of this function. PP has changed a lot since I've used it. Thanks.

I know, i used it loads for uni 17 years ago, and a few times for work but didn't really work in industry that required me to do presentations. So discovering some new stuff.

This should help. It's for PowerPoint 2010, 2013 and 2016

Oooo thank you. I'll take a look later this eve.

I think if your training is primarily computer based it looks as though screencast would be your best bet, for everything else PowerPoint if perfect.

I have seen powerpoint used in lieu of video on a number of sites. But I don't personally use powerpoint.

It seems very straight forward to do a regular presentation and load it to website. Not so straight forward to do the screen recording part but probably operator error.

Great question! I am anxious to read the responses that you receive. I use Office365 on my iOS system and this would be a wonderful reduction of my steep learning curve.

Hi yes, I thought the same rather than trying to learn something completely new - adapt use and develop existing skills.

I know from prior experience with PowerPoint that you do not record video within it. You record it in another manner and insert that video into the PowerPoint presentation. PowerPoint is designed for this integration. How to add that to our websites without slowing them down is the critical question.

It does have its own media video recorder, but yes essentially what you appear to need to do is record what you want, then load it into a presentation and edit it there before you're able to do anything else with.

I have not used PowerPoint in this, I have never heard of PowerPoint being able to record your screen... is that possible now?

With office 365 and windows 10 it looks like it is. As I've never done any screencasts or videos at all before on any platform I was just wondering if anyone had any experience of it. I'll be having a play soon.
I'm actually recording now to see if this works.

Oh wow! Let me know how it works out ;)

I managed to record me typing but haven't worked out how to upload it. Its not in a format that WA comments supports as its .ppt rather than jpeg etc...

I see, so it isn't a "video" but rather a powepoint presentation.

You can try this though:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Turn-your-presentation-into-a-video-c140551f-cb37-4818-b5d4-3e30815c3e83

Pretty much, but power point does have its own recording feature then yes you're essentially creating a presentation to show the video.

Makes sense.

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Hi I'm trying to make the blog post on website a bit neater so that read does have to do as much scrolling.

I have menus so it should be easy to for them to find what th

I think that's something that depends on the theme. Maybe you should look at a different theme that allows you to do it ;)

I use the 'read more excerpt link', plugin.

Thank you all, I found the little button that seems to do what I want, now I just have to get it in the right place on each post to encourage to read on. But right now, at 1.30am its time for bed.

Jenny here is an hour video for the 2014 theme it explains everything you can with it. You will need to take the Spaces out of the url
Tim
https://www.youtube .com/watch? v=OyeRYZ_6I2E

Quite the space cadet Tim! You should be in charge of the starship Enterprise!

Themes like Virtue and Heiro have a setting for "excerpts" in the posts. You can choose excerpts or full post. twenty fourteen, I believe, doesn't have this option.

Is anyone aware of LIVE Leap? They are new and can instantly post your FB posts on other social media as well. Described here. https://go.epicstate.com/live-leap-review

Depending on your theme in Wordpress there is a button you can select at the top after you place your cursor where you want the split to be

OK, I'm using 2014. It doesn't appear to be a particularly popular theme with WA members!!! I'll have another look. Thank you

Thanks for asking this question Jenny. I need to use this feature too. Here is the basic info: http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-properly-use-the-more-tag-in-wordpress/

Wow and now it all becomes clear. - Thank you.

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How do I make the posts on my site take up less space?

How do I make the posts on my site take up less space?

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Hi I'm trying to make the blog post on website a bit neater so that read does have to do as much scrolling.

I have menus so it should be easy to for them to find what th

I think that's something that depends on the theme. Maybe you should look at a different theme that allows you to do it ;)

I use the 'read more excerpt link', plugin.

Thank you all, I found the little button that seems to do what I want, now I just have to get it in the right place on each post to encourage to read on. But right now, at 1.30am its time for bed.

Jenny here is an hour video for the 2014 theme it explains everything you can with it. You will need to take the Spaces out of the url
Tim
https://www.youtube .com/watch? v=OyeRYZ_6I2E

Quite the space cadet Tim! You should be in charge of the starship Enterprise!

Themes like Virtue and Heiro have a setting for "excerpts" in the posts. You can choose excerpts or full post. twenty fourteen, I believe, doesn't have this option.

Is anyone aware of LIVE Leap? They are new and can instantly post your FB posts on other social media as well. Described here. https://go.epicstate.com/live-leap-review

Depending on your theme in Wordpress there is a button you can select at the top after you place your cursor where you want the split to be

OK, I'm using 2014. It doesn't appear to be a particularly popular theme with WA members!!! I'll have another look. Thank you

Thanks for asking this question Jenny. I need to use this feature too. Here is the basic info: http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-properly-use-the-more-tag-in-wordpress/

Wow and now it all becomes clear. - Thank you.

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Hi, I switched to using WP Spamshield after it was recommended due to rule changes with Akismet.

Since then I know a few of you have struggled to leave comments directly

if the plugin in is causing problems why not try anti spam bee see if it works better for you

Hi Katie, I did install Anti Spam Bee yesterday and It seems to be working just fine. Phew.

try a different theme.. if possible.

Still open to alternative filter suggestions.

Hi Jenny just tried to leave a comment on your web site not through the WA platform, got the check javascript and cookies settings. I am interested to see the out comes.

Thank you, I think I'll be changing spam filter as I just don't seem to be able to configure Spamshield to let people through.

Please have a look here, it might help:

Thank you, I'll take a look.

Thank you but all of these are enabled, went through and checked each one.
Comments have only been a problem since installing WPSpamshield.
I'm sure its that that I need to configure, but I just cant see how?
Or replace it with something else.

Ah yes, I was looking for this will be swapping over later.
Thank you.

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Why can't people leave comments on my site?

Why can't people leave comments on my site?

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Hi, I switched to using WP Spamshield after it was recommended due to rule changes with Akismet.

Since then I know a few of you have struggled to leave comments directly

if the plugin in is causing problems why not try anti spam bee see if it works better for you

Hi Katie, I did install Anti Spam Bee yesterday and It seems to be working just fine. Phew.

try a different theme.. if possible.

Still open to alternative filter suggestions.

Hi Jenny just tried to leave a comment on your web site not through the WA platform, got the check javascript and cookies settings. I am interested to see the out comes.

Thank you, I think I'll be changing spam filter as I just don't seem to be able to configure Spamshield to let people through.

Please have a look here, it might help:

Thank you, I'll take a look.

Thank you but all of these are enabled, went through and checked each one.
Comments have only been a problem since installing WPSpamshield.
I'm sure its that that I need to configure, but I just cant see how?
Or replace it with something else.

Ah yes, I was looking for this will be swapping over later.
Thank you.

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I have a fb page https://www.facebook.com/introtoonlinebusiness/

I tried linking from fb to

https://goo.gl/

Thank you that seems to work.

Hi Jenny, I believe FB has a restriction on SiteRubix sites. Have you tried using a link shortener?

OK, i haven't tried tried that, I'll look into it. Thank you

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Why won't my fb page link to my website?

Why won't my fb page link to my website?

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I have a fb page https://www.facebook.com/introtoonlinebusiness/

I tried linking from fb to

https://goo.gl/

Thank you that seems to work.

Hi Jenny, I believe FB has a restriction on SiteRubix sites. Have you tried using a link shortener?

OK, i haven't tried tried that, I'll look into it. Thank you

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