Tag: Spring 2023
-
Learning Timeline!
Okay this has gone through multiple stages of my trying to figure out how to do this. Creating the timeline itself wasn’t a problem (the only thing I was running into was making sure images were coming up), but embedding it into the site was. WordPress doesn’t allow Timeline on here because of iFrame. Once I figured this out, which help from Shannon who gave me some very helpful hints on where to look, I was able to find that using the HTML block rather than the embed block. Now that that’s figured out, here are two Timelines I made.
This is Quite Literally Just an Outline of My Classes
This is a Kind of Long Timeline of the Percy Jackson Series
There was a lot so I stopped after the first book but I started in the 1900s
-
Troubleshooting
Screen recoding of how I fixed my website - Search terms
- WordPress broken site
- Changed URL on wordpress
- Broken Link wordpress
- Websites I found helpful
- Steps I took
- I tried to use core FTP Le – very confusing and it didn’t help
- Went into cpannel and looked up php admin
- Clicked my website and clicked wp-options
- Changed site and main URL to my original URL
- Site dashboard loaded but site wasnt loading
- Used a tool to check if my website was down for everyone or just me and the website said it was only down for me. I looked up my website on my phone to confirm.
- Cleared cache and looked up website on my computer again and it worked
- Experience
- I worked on fixing my website for about 2+ (stressful) but once I found a the first link listed above it became simple and fun to fix.
- I enjoyed this task!!!!!
- Search terms
-
Training Post #5
I had quite the time trying to fix my site after breaking it. At first I googled the error message that appeared on my site but it didn’t really bring me to any solutions to my problem. After not finding any solutions that way I looked up what I did wrong and looked for WordPress specific answers. I found a solution on a WordPress forum where someone had a similar problem and were able to fix it. I then followed the instructions on the forum. First I went to Cpanel and found “phpMyAdmin”. Once I clicked on phpMyAdmin then I found wpoption and edited siteurl to what I had originally. After that I went to my dashboard for the training subdomain and entered settings. I went to the general section and changed the site url and WordPress url there as well and saved changes. At first these allowed me to enter my site from the dashboard but not from a search engine so I asked Kayla for help and we figured out that I just needed to clear my cache on my browser.
what my site looked like when broken -
Post 5: Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting was definitely something I thought was really scary at the beginning of this. Although as I learned more about it I realized it’s mostly just gathering up as much information as you can to recreate the problem and then working backwards from there. That’s what I did when I purposely broke my site by changing the URLs.
What I Did
At the start of this endeavor, once I changed my URLs in the general settings menu, my site looked like this:
Site Homepage 
Site Dashboard I ended up not Googling anything, as I knew what created the problem in the first place. I knew that the problem stemmed from the URLs being changed, as well as they were changed in the general settings section of the dashboard. From there, I found the new general settings link and and to search a bit to find where I could change the URL again. At this point I’ll admit I ran into a problem because I initially typed in the correct URL wrong. Once I saved the page with the incorrect URL, it lead me to another “This site can’t be reached” page. Simply going back to the page I started at didn’t work because it would revert back to the URL with a typo, so I had to re-login to my dashboard on a separate tab. Only then was I able to type in the correctly spelled URL and fix the problem.
Reflection
Looking back, before I started this it never occurred to me that I could simply work backwards from the problem. Knowing that helped me figure out how best to fix the problem.
-
Fifth Post!
For this post, I troubleshooted how to fix my broken website! First, to break my site I changed my URL by adding 333 to the end, it looked like this.
After My Site Broke I went back to domain of ones own and clicked on my wp admin URL. I then scrolled down to settings, hit general, and changed my url back to the original
What my page looked like before fixing site I didn’t google anything, I first tried and see if I could fix it through domain of ones own back page but it didn’t work. Then I tried to go back to my original settings, Haley found it as well and gave me a hint to just scroll down, so from there I fixed it.
-
Troubleshooting!
Back at it again with the DKC training blog posts! This week we learned about troubleshooting.
What my site looked like after I changed the URL 
How I fixed it (more explaining below) So, my first thing that I did was go to DoOO to see if I could access my site from the back end. When I did that, it took me to the page on the right, which I recognized as just the side bar of the WordPress back page. I went down to the bottom where it said “General Settings” and it showed the broken URL! I changed it back to it’s OG site name and it fixed
I didn’t end up doing any googling, cause I was originally just going to see if WordPress could tell me what the problem was but it turned out the solution was there anyway! I was like… 5 steps ahead of WordPress the whole time!
-
Accessibility Blog
I learned the Curb-Cut effect is when adjustments are made for people with disabilities but those adjustments end up helping a larger group of people. An example of curb-cut effect is closed captions.
My question: Do we add alt text to decretive images?