jonimueller

And also don’t forget to CONNECT the user to the database. I’ve been working with WP and other scripts for over six years now and I often in my haste forget this critical step!

You don’t “install” the database anywhere on your server for the world to see. You “install” WordPress. WordPress grabs the database and uses it for its own purposes.

So if you upload the WordPress files from the distro (distribution zip file), into your /blog subfolder, then point your browser to:

(for example only)

http://www.mycooldomain/blog/wp-admin/install.php

then it should install itself. That is provided you’ve filled out and uploaded the wp-config.php file.

Why is this so darn hard to understand?

/public_html is your “site root.” You can type the file name directly into your browser’s address bar and you should be able to view the file.

If you are attempting to upload a file to a folder on your site, that target is likely /public_html/[foldername]

Anything ABOVE the /public_html folder is hidden from public view. (Hence the string “public” in “public_html”.)

You are better off in the long run using an FTP client. The WP Codex suggests several. I personally use WS-FTP Pro but a lot of people seem to like Cute FTP and Filezilla. It’s alot faster than trying to upload via cPanel. But the File Manager in cPanel is pretty foolproof so I don’t, once more, understand your problems with this.

No need to do that. You can go to the old site and under Tools, EXPORT an *.xml file to your hard drive. This contains all your pages, posts, comments and most of your plugin settings. Categories should normally migrate as well, but warning you, sometimes they don’t.

Then in the new blog, go to Tools, and IMPORT, it will give you a chance to upload the *.xml file from your hard drive and it will ask you if you want to import file attachments. Always say “yes” to that.

Hi, Joel. The code that I posted above will work with just about any theme. 🙂

You might want to start over with the widgets. Decide where you want your widgets and how many you’ll want. In one design we did, I have custom widgetized sidebars for each page, plus an actual sidebar widget, and three footer widgets.

Here’s my code. Notice that you can NAME each sidebar by including it between the ' in the parentheses. This goes in your functions.php file, I think you can figure out where to swap out the current widget code with this code. And of course, your styles will be different from mine, but this gives you an idea of their flexibility.

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ){
    register_sidebar(array(
    'name' => 'sb-about',
    'before_widget' => '<div class="navbox">',
    'after_widget' => '</div>',
    'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',
    'after_title' => '</h3>',
));
    register_sidebar(array(
    'name' => 'sb-contact',
    'before_widget' => '<div class="navbox">',
    'after_widget' => '</div>',
    'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',
    'after_title' => '</h3>',
));
    register_sidebar(array(
    'name' => 'sidebar',
    'before_widget' => '<div class="navbox">',
    'after_widget' => '</div>',
    'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',
    'after_title' => '</h3>',
));
    register_sidebar(array(
    'name' => 'footer1',
    'before_widget' => '<div class="navbox">',
    'after_widget' => '</div>',
    'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',
    'after_title' => '</h3>',
));
    register_sidebar(array(
    'name' => 'footer2',
    'before_widget' => '<div class="navbox">',
    'after_widget' => '</div>',
    'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',
    'after_title' => '</h3>',
));
    register_sidebar(array(
    'name' => 'footer3',
    'before_widget' => '<div class="navbox">',
    'after_widget' => '</div>',
    'before_title' => '<h3 class="widgettitle">',
    'after_title' => '</h3>',
));

And then in your templates, call them as follows (place this line where you want the widget to appear):

<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('footer1') ) : ?>

And don’t forget to change the name to match what you’ve laid out in your functions.php file. 🙂

Oh, absolutely it’s a compliment. He’s my best friend in the world and got started on the internet at a young age and grew that forum to the monster it is today. And I see you were even younger when you started out. Now if we could just convince plugin developers to spit out validating CODE for their plugins, life would be pretty much perfect, wouldn’t it?