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Any WordPress pro's out there? (Local Kids Charity)

razil
razil Posts: 15,041
edited July 2016 in Not Sports Related
Hi, am working for an Eltham based kids adventure learning charity at present and need some help with their Wordpress site which isn't playing ball. So if you are a guru in that area and fancy giving me a hand it would be great to hear from you.

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  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,570
    I have used it for work, definitely wouldn't say I am a guru however! What is the issue in case I can?
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    edited July 2016
    Events and news widgets showing old stuff and no new stuff, Jetpack needs installing in a way that is complimentary to Google Analytics, site is slow - and no performance menu item is available. I did a fair bit for the Trust's site, but you can set things up quite differently in WP. Further down the line it needs changing navigation and stuff, but I may be able to do that.
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,570
    Most problems I have had have been solved by seeing which plugins might be causing the issue, deactivating to see if that improves issues. If it is jetpack causing the issue, could you use a different plugin? - I haven't used it myself

    Does clearing the cache do anything?
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    I can't get to the clear cache option as no performance menu item, or WordPress engine item. Jetpack not installed yet, GA is but I don't want to adversely impact it or the site by doing so.
  • LuckyReds
    LuckyReds Posts: 5,866
    razil said:

    Events and news widgets showing old stuff and no new stuff, Jetpack needs installing in a way that is complimentary to Google Analytics, site is slow - and no performance menu item is available. I did a fair bit for the Trust's site, but you can set things up quite differently in WP. Further down the line it needs changing navigation and stuff, but I may be able to do that.

    If the menu items are not present, then are the plugins definitely installed - i.e a caching plugin?

    With regards to performance; make sure there are no unnecessary plugins installed, introduce a caching layer and make sure the performance issues aren't the actual hosting.

    If they control their domain name, you could place a cache outside of Wordpress in the form of CloudFlare - it plays quite nicely with Wordpress and acts pretty transparently. I use their free package for my personal site + my agency/consultancy site.
  • Try Settings\Permalinks - and then save changes (without making any changes)
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041

    Try Settings\Permalinks - and then save changes (without making any changes)

    Thanks, tried that no joy

  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,640
    for all aspects of wordpress you tube step by step tutorials are available...
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    edited November 2016
    Thanks people.

    Have made some great inroads into the site we now run thanks to David who runs the Trust website.

    Can anyone help me with making tables transparent in wordpress?

    Is it as simple as changing the background colour html code?
  • Glovepup
    Glovepup Posts: 1,746
    razil said:

    Thanks people.

    Have made some great inroads into the site we now run thanks to David who runs the Trust website.

    Can anyone help me with making tables transparent in wordpress?

    Is it as simple as changing the background colour html code?

    Believe so yes, you can edit things in HTML mode. May help.

    With regards to the speed, if you have access to the Databases you can generally run maintenance on them to speed things up. As above, the more plugins bigger the load so it will slow down if you have too many.

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  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    tried changing the background code to #ffffff and #00ffffff but no joy
  • razil
    razil Posts: 15,041
    reckon this might be the answer but my html is really not up to much

    https://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/overriding-default-table-colors/