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sure… that’s what I’d do at this point.

I’m wondering about what you don’t think is necessary though – if you have links to /wp/ in your templates, you should remove them even if wordpress doesn’t care – simply because google does. if the same content can be found via / or /wp/ then you’ll get a duplicate content penalty.

… opening 30 files in a text editor and replacing /wp/ with / is going to take about 5 minutes, including a break to scratch yourself.

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moving the files back is always an alternative… I don’t want to tell you how to live… but I strongly feel that your future will be easier if you do this now, and never think about having a ‘non standard’ installation again.

actually, if your images are the only problem then I think you’d save yourself some general kerfuffle by just moving the uploads folder (not the plugins, not the themes, just the uploads)…

if you put them into wp/wp-content/uploads, you can then change the path of your upload folder under Settings/Miscellaneous.

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personally, I think it’s worth the effort to run a search and replace through your database and replace every instance of ‘/wp/’ with ‘/’ once that’s done once it never needs doing again.

you can do a similar thing in the 5 template files you’ve got with a text editor… it’s maybe 20 minutes work.

… but of course its up to you 😉

and remember to backup your DB before you run any wild SQL magic through it 😉

yep, any hard paths in your posts will need to be changed – you can do that easily enough with a “search and replace” plugin – there are a couple of those available.

most of the issue is with your theme though – you have a LOT of hard-coded paths in your navigation… consider using relative links if you’re going to hard code them.

… generally speaking, you’re done… there’s just cleanup work to follow, but most of everything works once you get past the fact your navigation links are all broken.

the uploads location will work fine – but you can actually specify that in your admin options, so make sure its pointing to the right place.

try is_category

this will only work on category archive pages, while you browse.

your site is no longer generating ‘500’ errors, so *something* you did then did work (I’m guessing the deleting htaccess part).

if you have access to phpMyAdmin, then in the wp-options table, find the entries for “siteurl” and “home” and change them to your web address without the /wp (and without a trailing slash).

if you can’t get into the wp admin, this is the way to do it now.

I’m sorry, due to the beers actually present in the room, I don’t do live chat 😉 – but I do respond fairly quickly.

did you move the subdirectories as well? is /wp now empty (or better yet, gone?)

instead of making an empty htaccess, have you tried just deleting it?

I can’t see any problem with the steps you performed above… if you did actually change the two URLs in the options the way you said you did.

if you do the two things I’ve said above, and it still doesn’t work – I’d suggest you may have files lost in the move – in which case, wipe the web root and upload some new files – your posts will be fine in the database where they are.

if it *still* doesnt work, we might need to get our hands on phpMyAdmin and change those options URLs manually.

btw, if you DON’T want to do that, then you should keep step 1 of your process with the subdirectory in place.

… I don’t think that’s the best solution though.

I havent used the admin area in IE6, but I can tell you, that area has nothing whatsoever to do with your readers.

your blog theme is distinct from the admin theme… you may simply need to control the environment in which you create posts, either by upgrading IE, or by using Windows Live Writer to publish your posts, if indeed your admin area is hosed under IE6.

As I say, I’ve not tested it under IE6, but I would be kind of surprised if it didn’t work passably… but either way, it has bugger all to do with your blog’s visitors.