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RE: Can't log in to Forum

gav — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 21:18:38 +0000

@dimalifragis Thanks for all the help you did provide, even though, as you say, the subject got away from WpForo. I will get back with my host. I moved there from another company who were pretty much all screwed up and may have done this.

RE: Can't log in to Forum

dimalifragis — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:56:28 +0000

@gav If the url of the site is gray out, that means it is probably hardcoded in the wp-config.php, still i can't understand why this can happen.

Same for the images you say. Gray out? I have never seen that. Who has installed this WP? Your hosting can help maybe? You can't edit a page?

I'm sorry but i can't help more on this. And it is not related to wpForo. For example this cryptic /false error at your home page.

All i can say that something is wrongly configured in your installation. Still, just guessing.

RE: Can't log in to Forum

gav — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:34:05 +0000

@dimalifragis Thanks for all your help. Unfortunately, I'm not able to change the images from http to https. The field is greyed out and can't be edited. It's the same for all library items.

I don't know if this is related, but I was also not able to change the wordpress address URL in Settings>General. I discovered this when I tried to use the feature in the latest version of Wordpress to migrate from http to https automatically. I was able to fix this by changing something in the wp-config file in Control Panel (with the help of the wonderful tech support of my host). Now the wordpress address url is https://songwriterjunction.com. It is still greyed out, but at least it is correct. When I run Heath Check there is no suggestion to migrate to https. I'm wondering if there is something else in the php configuration which is disabling the ability to change links to images and audio files. It's not an area I know much about, although this is proving to be a learning experience!

RE: Can't log in to Forum

dimalifragis — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 22:43:21 +0000

Last suggestion. This:

GET https://songwriterjunction.com/false

Is a cryptic error that maybe come from this:

<link rel="https://api.w.org/" href="https://songwriterjunction.com/wp-json/" /><link rel="alternate" type="application/json" href="https://songwriterjunction.com/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/103"

I have no idea what it is, it may come from your theme.

RE: Can't log in to Forum

dimalifragis — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 22:39:18 +0000

An other one:

<h3 class="wpforo-forum-title"><a href="http://songwriterjunction.com/community/announcements-suggestions/">Announcements & Suggestionsa> h3>

<h3 class="wpforo-forum-title"><a href="http://songwriterjunction.com/community/whats-going-on/">What's going on?a> h3>

Just fix those and also every link with http:, there are many many. I can't find and post them all. There is a plugin to fix this, i don't remember what it is.

Also fix the menu to https: of my capture below.

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RE: Can't log in to Forum

dimalifragis — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:19:00 +0000

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Ok. The first thing you want to do is EDIT your pages so there are NO more http: in IMAGES links.

This is easy. It is your piano logo:

http://songwriterjunction.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/piano-logo-5.jpg

Change it to https:

Also this

http://songwriterjunction.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/guitar-759353.jpg

Change it to https:

RE: Can't log in to Forum

gav — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 19:07:10 +0000

I'm using the Post Name option. The URLs show up as https.

RE: Can't log in to Forum

dimalifragis — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:49:48 +0000

@gav Can you share here pls your my permalink structure? In Wordpress settings?

RE: Can't log in to Forum

dimalifragis — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 18:39:10 +0000

@gav Ok, i do understand that you are not that familar with all that. So i'm gonna help a bit more, in the next few hours that i will have some spare time.

RE: Can't log in to Forum

gav — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:48:42 +0000

@dimalifragis Thanks again. I really appreciate you taking the time to help. I have upgraded to the latest Wordpress. It does seem to offer a solution in the form of a handy way to migrate everything to https, accessible from Tools > Site Health, but for some reason the problem is not flagged there, so there is no easy button popping up to rectify it like there should be. Strangely the Wordpress URL field in settings is greyed out/inactive, so I can't change http to https there either, so this might be related to the problem I suppose. I'm going to have to do some more work to find out what's going on.