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Well, I found that I was able to edit basic.css via my ftp site but when I did it spread the 2 sections apart. I had save a copy of the original file before editing it but when I tried to restore the saved and renamed copy of the original basic.css from basic1.css back to basic.css to get my original configuration back the page still has the undesired appearance. Take a look at http://jmdouglass.com.

The original basic.css was never changed (accept the name) so I can’t understand why it did not go back to its original configuration. What to do? The edited file is now named *basic-old.css and the original file is named back to basic.css.

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The error message that I got when trying to log in indicated that the wp-admin/admin.php could not be found. I downloaded a new copy of WP and reuploaded the single file that was apparently missing. That fixed the problem and I can now log in normally. Thanks

Thanks. I am not confident in changing the whole upload. Fear destroying the whole board. Is there a simple way to reup the files?

If I’m reading the error right, it is saying that it cannot find the file admin.php in the wp-admin folder. Can I just copy that file back into the folder? Where can I get a copy of the file? Am I reading it right?

Is there a way to deactivate the plugin without actually removing it to see if that helps. Like renaming the folder or moving the contents to a temp folder?

Thanks worked perfectly.

Thanks for your help. I did get it to work. Here what I did–

1. Uploaded a new php file named astore.php to my themes folder using my ftp program.
2. Went to the editor in the WP dashboard and brought up page.php and copied the contents.
3. Opened astore.php and pasted previously copied contents from page.php
4. In astore.php I added the following contents at the top of the existing code:

<?php
/*
Template Name: astore
*/
?>

Then I deleted the following line:
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

Then found the line containing <div id="content"> and changed it to `<div id=”content” style=”width:100% !important;”>

Finally saved astore.php

5. Went to page editor and brought up page I wanted to change. On the right side of the screen there is a dropdown menu listing the template assigned to the page. It needed to be changed to astore.

6 copy the astore code from amazon and paste it into the page you are editing. Be sure it has HTML picked in the tabs at the top of the editor.

7 Preview and publish.

8. So far it looked pretty good but it still was a little too wide. So I search on amazon for a narrower theme in the astore editor, chose it, and copied the code, and pasted it into the page editor on WP. Preview. It fit but wasn’t centered the way I wanted it so I went back to the code pasted from amazon and started experimneting with changing the width="100% to smaller percentages until it appeared to look like I wanted. Then published again.

Hope this will help others who are having this problem. The theme I ended up using was bluebirdhost2. It is much narrower that the default theme and still looks good. It did need a little tweeking with the colors. Here are the results:
http://jmdouglass.com/forex_review/a-store/

Please let me know what you think.

Thanks