David Calhoun

You would have to edit the theme file that calls in the sidebars. You would need to put in a conditional statement checking to see if the current page is the front page.

<?php
  if ( !is_front_page() ) {
    // display my sidebar
  }
?>

For reference: http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_Tags#The_Front_Page

The themes are contained in a folder found in the wp-content/themes/ directory of your WordPress install. You can always copy the theme folders there to another location on your computer to “back those up”.

Copying just the CSS probably won’t do you much. In order to have your site “look the same,” you’ll have to have the entire theme installed and activated. Which as you say now causes errors.

If you just want to revert to another theme that was working, just re-activate that theme. That’s all that should be required.

Seems like you are using an outdated plugin or theme. Try deactivating plugins or activating a stable theme (TwentyTen) and see if the issue resolves itself.

You are trying to “open” a PHP block ( i.e. – using the “<?php” delimiter ) when you are already inside inside of a PHP block. Do you what you are doing, but inside of this instead:

<?php
  if ( is_page('basketball') ) { ?>
    [basketball loop]
  <?php } elseif ( is_page('football') ) { ?>
    [football loop]
  <?php } elseif ( is_page('baseball') ) { ?>
    [baseball loop]
  <?php } else { ?>
    [generic loop]
  <?php }
?>

Replace the bracketed words (including the brackets) with each of your loops. If you notice, this time I am closing PHP prior to the loop section and the re-opening it after the loop section.

When you say “code tag”, are you referring to this?

http://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_Code_in_Your_Posts

Have you tried disabling all of your plugins and/or activating a stable theme (TwentyTen)?

Here’s a great tutorial by Bill Erickson on how to move your WordPress site. In order to fix the broken links, you will need to run some queries on your database replacing your old site address with your new one.

http://www.billerickson.net/how-to-move-your-wordpress-website/