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I’m not an expert, but you might try getting rid of (or commenting out) lines in your theme’s page.php file (if you have one) that include the following:

<?php comments_popup_link(__(' Comments?'), __('1 Comment'), __('% Comments')); ?>

<?php comments_template(); // Get wp-comments.php template ?>

If you don’t have a page.php file for your theme, you can either take those lines out of index.php, or create a page.php file that doesn’t include them (so you can still have comments for posts…although I think you can create a separate post.php file, too, if you want).

Someone else will have to give you help for the comments link issue, but to use your own design, you need to create a theme. Information on that is in the Codex.

Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner…

For the sidebar bg, just put this:

#sidebar {
background-color: #XXXXXX;
}

Actually, I’m not seeing anything at that URL (I realize you meant miwaterfowler.com). Do you mean that you want the post to be in the center (but you don’t want the post text centered), evenly between the left and right columns? You can probably fix that by using margin settings. Try this (or you might use it for the main page ID, rather than just .post), editing the “0px” with different numbers, which can be positive or negative (using a minus sign)–and leave any other settings that are already set for the selector:

.post {
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
}

I don’t know what settings will work best for you, but the way I remember what each of the values and which side they represent is to think of the word TRouBLe. The consonants in the word are the order of the numbers: T=Top, R=Right, B=Bottom, and L=Left. So, the first 0px controls the top margin, the second 0px controls the right margin, and so on. Try changing the numbers for the left and/or right margins, and adjusting that way.

I’m not 100% sure, but if it works like a problem I recently had, you can wrap the PHP call for the links function in <UL></UL> tags with a class setting for no list style in the CSS file. So, in the CSS file, you might have this:

ul.nobullet {
list-style-type: none;
}

And then you’d wrap just the links PHP call like this:

<UL CLASS="nobullet"><?php get_links_list(); ?></UL>

Someone else might know a better solution, but this should work.

I’ve been going crazy trying to get CG-Amazon in CG-Powerpack to work. I want to use other plugins in the Powerpack, but CG-Amazon is the one I’m most interested in, if it’s as good as I’ve heard, and I’ll worry about the other plugins after I get this one working.

Thing is, it isn’t working. I got it installed and activated, and it wants the cg-plugins/cga-admin.php to be in the wp-admin directory. Ok, so I moved it there, which got the admin to work, at least insofar as calling the cga-config.php file. And that brings up these errors:

Warning: main(ABSPATHWPINC/pluggable-functions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/username/public_html/test/wordpress/wp-admin/cg-plugins/cga-config.php on line 22
Warning: main(ABSPATHWPINC/pluggable-functions.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/username/public_html/test/wordpress/wp-admin/cg-plugins/cga-config.php on line 22
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'ABSPATHWPINC/pluggable-functions.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/username/public_html/test/wordpress/wp-admin/cg-plugins/cga-config.php on line 22

I’ve looked at all the files, and there *is* no pluggable-functions.php file. I’ve also moved files around, trying to get the thing to work, and no luck. If there’s anything obvious I’m doing wrong, I’d appreciate a reply. Thanks.