BinkyM

Ah! I did it! It was that codex that helped me out. He had some plugins that were incompatible. Thanks very much, folks! That did the trick! I’m a happy bunny now! I appreciate it a lot!

Binky

Hi, Shadow:

I now know what register_sidebar does: any time a sidebar is created, the register_sidebar routine is called. http://automattic.com/code/widgets/api/ makes it pretty clear. What it *doesn’t* make clear is what all the style crap is for when the styles aren’t defined anywhere!

Hey! I just opened my “Pages” widget, and in there I found a “Pages to exclude” field, so I entered the ID of my “Terms of Service” page, and it be gone! Shazam! Here I was walking around the outside, banging my head on the glass, and *that’s* all I had to do? Sometimes, I make things too hard on myself. I really wish the WP dox weren’t a reeaally loooong, skinny column that’s so hard to read; maybe I’d spot this stuff myself before massive bloody tufts of hair are on my keyboard.

Binky

Hi, Shadow:

I just grepped my plugins folder for “wp_list_pages” and came up empty, so that doesn’t seem to be the case, unless you’re suggesting one of my widgets is displaying my pages some other way besdies wp_list_pages. If that’s the case, how would I know? (sob!)

FWIW, my plugins/widgets are:

Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
Executable PHP widget
FeedBurner FeedSmith
http:BL
I Love Social Bookmarking
NoFollow Free
Snap Shots™
WP-PostRatings

None fiddles with the display of my pages in my sidebar (that I’m aware of, anyway). Some add functionality to the display of my *posts*, but insofar as the pages being listed in the sidebar, they still look the way they did on Day One (save for my changes to my stylesheet).

I think it’s time for a martini!

Binky

Yuppers! That did the trick! I’m a happy little blogger again! Thanks!

Thanks a lot, MichaelH! That oughtta do the trick! It’s circuitous and convoluted (not your message, but rather the dox), and I’d never have found all that without your help. I appreciamate it a lot; smoochies!

Binky

Hi, Otto42:

Didn’t know whether it was cool to post links. If it is, here you go:

http://lipstick-face.com/blog/

Clicking the categories on the left, you’ll see the word “category” in the URL. These aren’t archives (not the way I understand archives, anyway); these are current posts.

I’d be grateful if you’d peep at my blod and tell me whether maybe I’m all wet. I don’t understand what purpose the word “category” in my path serves. It adds no useful info.

Thanks very much,

Binky

I’ve solved the problem of the “From” field in the header being wrong, though WHY the problem exists, I have no idea. The file class-phpmailer.php in wp-includes had this on line 74:

var $Sender = “”;

Putting the email address in there solved his problem. The install went without a hitch, but I notice the file modification date on that file indicates that that file wasn’t touched during the install (none of the files in that directory was, for that matter), so I’m a little suspicious of what else might not be right. Other users haven’t experienced this problem? (I guess not, otherwise a lot of people would have jumped on this question with solutions!)

So I’m off to go try to put some *content* into the confirmation messages so they’ll be less apt to land in spam folders!

Binky