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1. rfruchtman
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Hi Everyone:

   I am really baffled here. I am using WP 2.0. I have not upgraded to the newer one yet, but I will.

   I opened a new Blog at:
   http://www.RozFruchtman.com

   It started out looking exactly like this one:
   http://www.BlogViewsByRoz.com

   UNTIL... I went into the *Current Theme Options* screen and changed the color of the header to purple. The purple is fine, but it also added *what looks like* the banner that I removed.

   In http://www.BlogViewsByRoz.com you will see that I am ONLY used CSS for the header color.

   I do not know how to get http://www.RozFruchtman.com BACK to using ONLY the CSS for the header color. I should have changed the color in the header.php and this would not have happened.

   In desperation I removed the endire Default Theme folder from the server AFTER I changed the theme to the other default theme. Once I re-uploaded the Default Theme (brand new - with NO changes in it) to the server and copied over FROM BlogViewsByRoz.com the header.php, sidebar.php, index.php and the style.css -- I STILL have the messed up header.

   I am sure there must be a way to fix this short of removed the entire blog from the server and starting over.

   Thanks.

   Roz

2. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Change to the Classic theme.
   That should work fine - looking at the validation errors it seems like the sidebar file has been altered?

3. rfruchtman
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Hi Podz:

   RE: http://www.RozFruchtman.com

   I really want to use the Default Theme and customize that one to at least (for a start) to look like:
   http://www.BlogViewsByRoz.com

   I did customize the sidebar.php, but as you can see it works fine here:
   http://www.BlogViewsByRoz.com

   It is the VERY SAME one from BlogViewsByRoz.com

   All the problems started when I changed the color of the header from within WordPress 2.0 /

   Presentations / Themes / Current Theme Options

   There does not seem to be a way to revert back once you save the options.

   I do not want to use a different theme in order to fix something not working in the Default Theme. I would like to learn how to fix it, and IF it is a bug in the program, then it can be fixed as I am sure I am not the only one that will use the features in:

   Presentations / Themes / Current Theme Options

   Thanks so much for your response. I realize my option is to remove WordPress altogether and then reinstall the entire thing brand new. Before I do that (which I will IF I have no other alternative) I want to see if there is a way to fix it. After all, I could have had hundreds of entries and then would have had a huge problem. Right now this Blog is brand new and all I am wasting is time.

   Thanks again.

   Roz

4. kickass
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Umm, in future you might wanna NOT edit it through the admin. Edit the css file locally, KEEPING A BACKUP so if you screw up you can revert it to the original. Upload the edited version and test drive. If it borks, upload the backup and try again.

   You might also keep in mind that sidebar changes in WP 2.0.X can sometimes have dire consequences in certain css layouts. It isn't in the css, it's in how WP interacts with it (if xhtml/css works in a static page and same xhtml/css does not work in WP 2.0, then it's not an xhtml/css problem.)

5. rfruchtman
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Thanks Kickass:

   RE: http://www.RozFruchtman.com

   I just upgraded to WP 2.02 through my cPanel's Fantastico and that *did not* help anything.

   Things are still not working properly.

   The only thing I can think of is removing the entire installation and redoing it.

   I believe whatever is the problem has to be a flaw in the coding, or is something we just do not know how to fix.

   Any ideas before I remove the entire thing?

   (On the good side, it could have been worse IF it were at my other Blog. This is a brand new one and once I ran into the problems I just left it until I found out how to fix it. Good thing I did!)

   Thanks again.

   Roz

6. rfruchtman
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I just uninstalled WordPress and reinstalled it.

   It seems strange to me that I was not able to recover from using the *Current Theme Options* feature no matter what I did. It was obviously something that was in WordPress itself and NOT the theme.

   This is a disaster waiting to happen in my opinion. I hope it will be fixed soon. In my case it was not as bad as it could have been. I was still testing that Blog and did not lose anything more than time.

   I would still like to know what the answer is to resolve the issue. I just decided to take the shortcut of uninstalling and reinstalling in order to move on.

   Thanks again to those who responsed.

   Roz
   http://www.BlogViewsByRoz.com

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