Helen Hou-Sandi

In the wp-content folder, there should be another folder named plugins. Rename that folder to something else, like plugins-old and create a new, empty folder called plugins. That way the plugins won’t be found and they’ll be deactivated. That may not be the source of the problem, but at least we’ll start somewhere.

Have you tried the steps listed in the troubleshooting master list? http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-32-master-list?replies=7

Especially:

Have you tried:

– deactivating all plugins (yes, all) to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s). Don’t forget the ones in mu-plugins. If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

– switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

– manually upgrading. When all else fails, download a fresh copy of the latest.zip file of 3.2 (top right on this page) to your computer, and use that to copy up. You may need to delete the wp-admin and wp-includes folders on your server. Read the Manual Update directions first!

I think the original poster (qrazy) has to mark it, so don’t worry!

Both of your sites seem just fine. Please mark this as resolved.

The Trash (comments, posts, etc.) is emptied every 30 days by default. There are ways to change that behavior: http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/7736/turn-off-automatic-trash-deletion

You’ll need to look for “the Loop” in one or some of your template files (probably index.php, among others) and take out the part where it shows the comments, which will likely be right after the_title(). Looks like it’ll be from <span class="commr"> to the </span> two lines later. The loop will start with something like while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();.

Edit: Jeez Chip, we keep overlapping. I should have refreshed before actually submitting! 🙂

The custom design upgrade is available for the hosted WordPress.com version, not self-hosted installs. If you’re using WordPress.com, you might want to try their forums instead: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/