Eric Mann

Here’s a very explanatory step-by-step article for backing things up: http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database

Here’s another for restoring from backups in the unlikely event that something goes wrong during the upgrade: http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

Just make sure you keep the backup files on your local system and not on your server.

Antonella,

Try replacing

<?php if(is_front_page() || is_home()){?>
   <?php } else { ?>
   <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<?php }?>

With

<?php if(is_home()){?>
   <?php } else { ?>
   <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<?php }?>

Antonella,

The only other change I’d recommend is checking is_home in index.php.

Change
<?php if( ! is_front_page()){?><h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3><?php }?>
To:

<?php if(is_front_page() || is_home()){?>
   <?php } else { ?>
   <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<?php }?>

In index.php and let me know if that fixed the problem. If not, then something else is going on …

This code will check if the user is on the front page or the home page (which are both the same in your case). If they are on either, then it will skip displaying the title. If they aren’t on either page, then it will display the title.

bemmo, try checking your profile page. That’s where the option is on all of the later versions.

Also, there are several people out there who would likely help you out for free. I’d even be willing to look through the Platinum template and check what (if any) changes need to be made for it to work with WP 2.6.2. Contact me off the forums and we can discuss this (eric [at] eamann [dot] com).

When you export, it saves the XML file on your computer. Just make sure you keep track of where you save it at so you can find it when you import things back into your main blog.

Installing multiple themes would become highly involved if you want each page to have a different theme. You could always build a different template for each page and have the page templates call specific CSS, header, footer, and sidebar files. This would be somewhat advanced and require a lot of coding.

Another option would be to use WordPress MU. This is a multi-user installation of WP that gives you essentially several different blogs (one for each of your podcast shows, for example). With this setup, it would be fairly easy to give each show it’s own theme, as each would really be it’s own site (usbn.net/rock and usbn.net/country, for example).

WordPress MU runs on just one database, so you don’t need to set up separate installations at all. Just follow the directions at http://mu.wordpress.org/.

Yes!

If you go to http://www.cmscareerxroads.com, you’ll see a horizontal login box in the upper right corner of the screen. Here’s the code that allowed me do put it there:

<?php global $user_ID; ?>
<?php get_currentuserinfo(); ?>
<?php if(! $user_ID){ ?>
	<div id="loginbar">
	<form name="loginform" id="menulogin" action="<?php bloginfo('wpurl'); ?>/wp-login.php?redirect_to=/main" method="post">
		<label><?php _e('username') ?> <input type="text" name="log" value="<?php echo attribute_escape(stripslashes($user_login)); ?>" size="10" tabindex="1" /></label>
		<label><?php _e('password') ?> <input type="password" name="pwd" value="" size="10" tabindex="2" /></label>
		<?php do_action('login_form'); ?>
		<input type="submit" name="wp-submit" value="<?php _e('log in'); ?>" tabindex="3" />
		<input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo attribute_escape($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?>main" />
	</form>
	</div>
<?php } ?>

The “loginbar” div gives you the ability to style things appropriately for your theme. I also recommend changing the “redirect-to=/main” line to whatever applies for your particular site. In this case, we’re redirecting people to a particular landing page.