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  • I’m a complete novice with html, but I’ve built my first website with WordPress Twenty Ten and have it integrated with my blog. It’s up and running and I’m generally happy with it, but I’ve changed something in the Twenty Ten theme probably before I read about creating a Child Theme, and I can’t figure out how to get the “share” and “twitter” widgets in the footer to show.

    I’ve installed them and activated them, and they show up on this page and any other “page not found”:

    http://knowlan.com/wordpress/blah

    But they don’t show up in any of the pages I’ve built or in my posts – only in the “page not found”.

    Before reading about child themes, I think (can’t remember for sure) I edited some of the main files in WordPress to get rid of the comments and widgets on my PAGES, but it seems to have affected my blog posts, too.

    The link below shows how my blog post displays – see, no twitter or “share” widgets.

    http://knowlan.com/2012/04/23/when-and-how-managers-should-be-more-entrepreneurial/

    Scroll to the bottom to see the footer.

    Any clues on where to start? Sorry I can’t remember which files I changed and what changes I made – that is, before I made the Child theme. I have backed up all the child theme files so they’re safe – it’s just the changes I made before learning about Child themes.

    Two other short questions.

    I have a wordpress Twenty Ten update (3.3.2) waiting to install. Should I go ahead with that and maybe it will fix the coding I did in other files that weren’t part of my child theme?

    And finally, I remember back in my university days writing programs in Fortran IV (yes, when dinosaurs still roamed Palo Alto) we used to “comment out” notes in our code to document changes we were making so we could see what we had changed after we forgot. Is there a way to do that in html? Is the forward slash (/) a symbol that the line following it should not be run? And if so, is anything required at the end of the comment?

    [ Please do not bump, it’s not permitted here. ]

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