DianeV
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I’m going to guess that the CSS for the sidebar (or something else on the page) is specifying a background of #fff (that’s white).
Look around and see if you can find something like that. It may be in your sidebar CSS.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Converting Blogger Template to WordPress TemplateYep, that’s a pretty common issue with CSS-based sites — but the problem is in the CSS rather than your PHP code.
Essentially (and you can see this visually), your sidebar is too wide to fit into the space to the right of the content, so it drops to the next available space into which it will fit, which is under the content. You’ll have to make one or the other (or both) less wide.
Another tricky issue may be *how* you’re specifying the CSS for the content and/or sidebar container. If you use left or right margins, IE may very well double whatever you’ve specified. Just something to know.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: How long will the 2.1 branch be maintained?Ditto.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Merging two copies of wordpressHm. I may be missing something, but dropping the tables in your database means you’ll be deleting everything in it, which is not what you want.
I’m not sure how to merge the DBs though.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Posts removed when upgradedI’m not sure (we’re not using the WP2.x version) but I’d highly recommend backing up your database if you haven’t already done so.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: setting up home page for my siteOkay. What did you do to try to set up user rights, and what version of WP are you using?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: C99 Shell hack, phishing install, several timesGood enough — but have you updated to the latest release for your version of WordPress? These things need to be kept up; otherwise, stuff can happen.
The WP release announcements are on your internal WP Dashboard.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: no folders in zip = no folders on web host serverThanks, whooami — nice job illustrating how WinZip works.
I find that errors often occur because one *thinks* one is using a program in the correct sequence. But if the results are not correct, then it’s time to rethink that assumption.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: no folders in zip = no folders on web host serverOkay. But I’ve been using WinZip for a decade, and the above works for me. Even with WordPress downloads. 🙂
Seriously, assuming that you’re unzipping a .zip file on your own computer, if you’re not getting the folder structure, either the .zip file doesn’t contain one (which I find difficult to believe) or you’re doing it wrong.
Try the “Extract” method.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: no folders in zip = no folders on web host serverGood question. This is a WinZip question, actually, rather than a WordPress issue.
When you unzip with WinZip, there are two steps to follow:
(1) Click on the .zip file to open it in WinZip
(2) Click on Extract to extract the files to another folder.This will copy them to the new folder *and* preserve the folder structure, and should give you all of your files.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Categories are not createdNormally, in every version of WP I’ve used, a new category won’t appear on the blog until one post has been made to that category.
That said, puzzled 94, it sounds like something(s) is really wrong with your WP install — because sorting out the category links on the blog is a different issue than not being able to add new categories at all. Or do you mean that you reinstalled and now everything’s fine?
In either case, you can go to the Options > Permalinks page to reset your URLs; perhaps that’s all that’s wrong.
Otherwise, I would start another thread with the above information, including enough information for others to determine what’s wrong.
If this was me wanting to integrate logins between a blog and a forum, if integrated software (that I liked) did not exist, I’d find software I liked and then get someone to integrate the logins. I know it can be done.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Moving WordPress from One Server to antherI think there’s some confusion here.
At this point is there any reason at all to use a theme that was designed with a sql file as it’s basis
The .sql file is a “dump” of the database and is entirely separate from the theme; if the theme worked on your designer’s server, then it should work on your web hosting account. If that’s not correct, you might explain how the theme has “a sql file as it’s basis”.
As to importing the .sql file *into the database*, we’ll need more descriptive information than “I got errors” or “doesn’t work”.
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Added: I should clarify that the database contains the preferences, usernames, passwords, posts, comments, etc. The theme contains the files that determine how all that data is displayed. Unless your copy of WordPress was heavily modified, the theme would not be *in* the datbase.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Problem with my Admin accountI don’t know what username you’re using to try to post. If it’s not the user called “admin”, I’d log in as admin, then give your particular username admin privileges.
Hope that makes sense.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Cannot find server after activating or deactivating pluginsThat *is* frustrating. Where is your blog hosted?