DianeV
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: HELP!!???!!!Hm. This is a little confusing because, if you’re just installing a new theme, that should be only one folder in the /wp-contents folder. And, as far as I know, you don’t have to deactivate plugins to install a theme — that would be required only where you’re upgrading WordPress.
So, that brings us to what happened when you installed the theme. What did you do exactly?
What is bothering me here is that PHPmyadmin should show a blank page; that is unusual, to say the least, and should not be happening.
What plugins did you activate?
I’m also wondering if you (a) specified that the home page or WP folder where other than they were before you installed the theme, or (b) overwrote or deleted other files; such as the .htaccess file which would control … well, much.
Can you explain (other than deactivating plugins) what precisely you did, what you uploaded and where?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t install.. Cause I’m retarded.Sarahlena, everyone has to start somewhere.
And if you haven’t got your mySQL username, password and database name, your host should provide these to you. Just ask them.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Hotlinked images missing on the PC, but ok on the MacHave you fixed it? I can see the four logos on a PC in Opera (the Opera browser).
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t go past Step 1IF the install worked, would it not be better to quickly remove the username and password these forums? (And change the password quickly.)
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Dark. Glass. Sciptaculous. Critique Me.Well, feel good. It’s really nice. I didn’t see any bugs in my short visit. 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t See Images In Horizontal Navigation BarHi Joe; sorry for the delay.
Yes, I’m suggesting putting the images into the list (lis).
The reason you’d have images as *backgrounds* in a list is because you want the “link text” itself to be text. Since you don’t, just using the images is more direct.
You *may* have to set the height of the LIs — that’s if you have problems with cut-offs.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Background problemDavey, I would try moving it around, just to see what happens. It’s a quick fix, if it works.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Error Establishing Database ConnectionSorry you’re having a problem.
Actually, the 5-Minute install *does* work very quickly — but only IF (a) the database has already been set up on the web hosting account, and (b) the right data has been input in the config.php (and uploading it to the server).
If your web host set up a mysql database for you, then it’s a matter of inputting the right data in the config.php.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange 404 ActivityWow; thanks. 🙂
I’m not sure that WordPress could assign an author to a “page” (or template) that was not “written” or “posted” by an author.
You could always use an include. Just a thought.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Username/Password ConfusionAnd … if your blog is at wordpress.com, you’re now at wordpress.org — totally different website.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: “error establishing a database connection” on MySQL 4.1I suspect that you’re trying to change the password for the user “root” on that server, not “root@localhost”.
Here’s a link to what may be the correct syntax for your server (the modwest.com site has a lot of helpful stuff):
http://www.modwest.com/help/kb6-57.htmlFinally, at the "mysql>" prompt, type:
set password = password("yournewpassword");Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Link images broken when I’ve changed hostingHowdy. You would have to first install your blog (and the database) the way it was on your original web hosting account — and then move WP.
This is a general description of how to move WP to a subdirectory while leaving the home page in the root folder; however, I think you could probably stop at #6. But it’s absolutely vital to back up everything first.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Strange 404 ActivityGood call, Zoutesnor.
I can see the benefit of using the_author there (so as to make implementation in multiple blogs quicker), but it pays to know what could happen in situations such as this one.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Am I the only person left with a square monitor?> But it is my belief that we can safely assume that 800×600 is near gone, just like web-safe colors faded into history.
Fingers crossed. I’m coming to that conclusion pretty quickly.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Freakish Behavior with HTML ValidatorI get the same thing for some RSS button feed links; they just don’t validate.
Okay; I found ONE use of “comments-list” on a page with comments. I also searched the (my) entire set of WP2.0.5 files and found NO use of “comments-list”, ID or otherwise (I was hoping it was buried in there somewhere).
What’s strange is that it looks like you got that validation error on your home page, whereas the only use of “comments-list” is on single.php where the comments are located.
Given that code cannot just appear and disappear, I’ve got a few ideas:
(1) you have a cache which is confusing things somehow.
(2) you have some incorrect or incomplete code which is somehow throwing off stuff below it in the validator.
(I’ve had that one.) For instance, it is not liking the alt attribute on the a href tag for your images (should be, if anything, a title attribute, as it’s a link). Otherwise, all the pages seem to validate.(3) WordPress is combining some tags somehow that occasionally end up with “comments-list”?
How about changing your #comments-list to #listocomments and seeing whether you get a recurrence of the error?Anyway, Merry Christmas!