[4Dmaze]

Can I change the Home link so that it goes back to my main website (not WP)? I assume this would be in the Editor as the Menu options seem pretty sparse. Any help pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks! -Derryl

[Pratik]

Hi @4Dmaze,

You can change your site URL in Dashboard=> Settings=> General Settings=> Site URL if you want your site home page to be different from your WordPress installation directory.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Pratik

[4Dmaze]

Pratik, thanks for the quick reply. That certainly looked like it should do the trick but it didn’t work. As you suggested I changed my ‘Site Address (URL)’ from http://www.sample.com/wp to http://www.sample.com but then none of my pages could be found as WP now looks for the WP pages in the root directory.

I changed it back but now I am locked out of my site including the admin panel. I get 404’s. Any suggestions?

[Pratik]

Humm,

Thats strange. It should have worked. You should be able to access http://www.sample.com/wp/wp-admin and login from there and revert the changes.

[4Dmaze]

Yes, I have tried /wp/wp-admin. It was the first thing I tried. I guess I will have to reinstall. That is a dangerous setting.

[Pratik]

Other thing you can do is go to your database and go to your prefix_options table and then change the home option (most probably in second row).

[4Dmaze]

I wasn’t able to find that in the database. I reinstalled the theme but still not working. I put in a URL of paths I knew exist but it says “jQuery is not properly loaded in the header. Your blog theme is probably missing the wp_head() call. Please contact your theme developer.”

Does this mean I have to reinstall WP as well? I hope not.

[Pratik]

Hi @4Dmaze,
I think that message is from a plugin. Can you post in your site url so i can check it.

Thanks,
Pratik

[4Dmaze]

Thanks, I started over from scratch. Still need to change where the Home link goes though. Is there a safer way that won’t scramble my WP install? Maybe in the HTML somewhere?

[Pratik]

HI @4Dmaze,
You can look at https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

[Dhawan]

If you create Pages in WordPress they will be added to the ‘nav bar’ in that theme automatically. This is provided by the use of the template tag, wp_list_pages(), in that theme’s header.php file. I thought the header.php used the template tag, wp_list_pages(), for that.

I have made changes in my theses two websites you cans see the example here:

https://aappunjabnews.wordpress.com
https://suchasinghchhotepur.wordpress.com/

[4Dmaze]

Thanks Dhawan. I looked at your sites but I am not seeing what you mean.

My problem is that if I go to one of the pages I have created in WordPress and then have my Home button go to my main website, I can not. I can change the home page using Dashboard=> Settings=> General Settings=> but then the other links no longer work. I don’t know if this a bug or not.

My entire site is not WordPress, only certain pages are. I need links in the WP pages to go back to the main site.

Example of WP page: http://billzender.com/wp/single-deck-3/ The home page is still in WP currently but I want it to go to http://billzender.com. Hope this makes sense. Thanks. -Derryl

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