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#1 2011-01-25 23:31:19
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HELP! Side-bar disappeared
Hi, I’m a TP newb and am helping a nonprofit with their website.
I hope I can explain the problem properly:
The side-bar on the homepage stopped showing up after we added a SWF banner to the page.
I’ve tried a bunch of things and the only way the sidebar shows up is if I add a title to the ‘Advanced Options’ field called “URL- only title” (the bottom field of the options.)
The problem is that it changes the URL to the main (home) page which we can’t have, because that URL is what’s listed on all the search engines as well as the literature. It’s where all the site visitors go. No one will know how to get to the long one (plus it’s a pain for people to type in.)
I’d greatly appreciate any help with this.
Thanks
Last edited by n2 (2011-01-26 15:03:16)
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Re: HELP! Side-bar disappeared
If you can show or link to a tag trace (see the link in my sig) and the default Page Template, that will make it easier for us to diagnose. Best I can do now is make a guess.
The site appears to be in /title Permanent Link Mode. The longer URL you post therefore displays an individual article page. If the sidebar is only showing up on that page, it’s because it is included in the article form or page template in a way that doesn’t appear on the home page.
This could be because the home page (the default section) uses a different template than the section containing http://www.meditationinmass.org/buddhism-meditation-in-massachusetts-new-hampshire-and-rhode-island, or because the template or form contains a conditional (such as if_individual_article or if_section) that makes the output different.
Where (which admin panel) did you add the banner?
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#3 2011-01-26 01:47:56
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Re: HELP! Side-bar disappeared
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What’s your Textpattern version?
To generate a tag trace, set Production Status to “Debugging”. Then load the page that’s having the problem (on the public side), view the page source — the tag trace is the long commented-out area at the bottom.
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#5 2011-01-26 02:14:38
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Re: HELP! Side-bar disappeared
Version 4.0.6.
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Do you have FTP and/or MySQL access (e.g., phpMyAdmin)?
Is constants.php located in /textpattern/lib?
Go ahead and post high diagnostics.
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#7 2011-01-26 02:24:41
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Re: HELP! Side-bar disappeared
Yes, i have an FTP program & do see the constants.php in the lib folder.
I also see the config.php file in the main folder, but the error log sounds like it’s not seeing it?
How do i do high diagnostics…?
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In Admin->Diagnostics, at the bottom of the output textarea there is a select box: “low” | “high”
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#9 2011-01-26 02:31:09
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#10 2011-01-26 02:37:46
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This should be the correct admin-side URL: http://www.meditationinmass.org/textpattern/
You’re correct that the admin side is not seeing config.php. The public side is, however, or the site wouldn’t be there. Clearly something has changed since you were last logged in, which I gather from your previous posts was recently.
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FTP to your config.php. What is the txpath?
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