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Have you tried doing a search?

This is a hosting issue not a WP issue. You can refer your web host to the following wiki entry if they need more info but ultimately, it’ll be up to your web hosts to fix it.

Under options-> writing, there is a textfield which contains a list of services which are automatically pinged when an entry is posted.

Pingomatic should be in that list which, when alerted, will notify the other publication sites.

If you don’t want these sites to be alerted, clear the whole box.

Change
<li id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>">

to
<li id="comment-<?php comment_ID() ?>" class="<?php if ((get_comment_ID()%2)==0){echo "alt";}?>">

Then add a style for the alt class in your style.css file e.g.
.alt{
background-color:#ffffff;
}

You could, of course, can try contacting your host to see if they have backups but in all honesty, I think it’s too late.

There a section on the Codex which explains how to backup WP so that you don’t hit this in the future. Also, July 23-30, 2005, will be WordPress Backup Week here in the forum and on the WordPress Codex where Support Volunteers will be helping users backup their WordPress site and databases.

Can you try the following:
copy (not rename) the theme’s index.php into home.php i.e. copy
/wp-content/themes/chewinggum/index.php to /wp-content/themes/chewinggum/home.php

Now at the top of home.php, there should be a line called get_header();
after it add the following line:
query_posts('cat=1');

WP should be able to automatically generate a .htaccess file for you if it has been given the correct permission to do so. If it can’t, then to make one, open notepad (do not use word) and copy and paste the htaccess “rules” that WP gives you.

Then, you’ll need to save this text file as .htaccess (note the filename).

You’ll then upload this to the root of your website.

You can get it here.

This is probably a problem with your .htaccess file. Try deleting it to see if that resolves the issue.