jonimueller

Last time I used Go Live was 6.0 (does that tell you how old I am?!), and I cannot remember if it color codes the code (there has to be a better way to say that, but I hope you know what I mean). Firefox Dev tools should get you going well enough. And once you start using them, you’ll find it hard to live without them. 🙂
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

Go into the database and export the *.sql file. (Make sure to check ‘drop tables’ when configuring the export.) Open it in a text editor and do aa find/replace, then import the *.ssql file back into the database.

In the index.php file change the_content to the_excerpt.

You should, however, be able to use the <-- more --> tag anywhere in the post that you darn well please. I’ve never heard of a theme that manages to disable that, since it’s not part of the theme’s files.

When you view your post as if you are going to edit it, there should be a “more” button there. Position that where you want the front page text to cut off and click it and it should insert the <-- more --> tag there.

That’s usually your best bet. Plugins can be fun, and I’m like a kid in a candy store with them and end up installing a bunch at once. Then something breaks the site. But which of the dozen plugins that I just installed is the culprit?

That’s why it’s best to install them one at a time, and make sure they don’t break your blog.

Also, some plugins work fine on their own, but some plugins, depending on what they are designed to do, will nto play nice with other similar plugins, so that can be a problem. But when your site goes wonky, that’s usually where you should start. 🙂

If you do a fresh install, it will create a new database, but you can import the old database into it. If you want to go the easy route, just backup your theme and plugin folders, export to XML (save that to your hard drive), then reinstall WP, upload your plugin and theme folders, and import the XML file. All your posts, pages, etc. will be preserved. (I do this all the time when moving content from my development server to the client’s server.) One caveat, though, sometimes, for whatever odd reason, categories may or may not travel with the XML file. It’s happened to me a few times, but not often enough for me to stop using this procedure. 🙂

Use an ad manager plugin:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=wordpress+ad+manager+plugin

They can usually be put in the widget area of the sidebar, but ad manager plugins also allow you to place ads in posts and elsewhere. Each plugin should have easy to follow directions.

I will say that it takes a bit of time for a site to become popular enough to warrant someone buying adspace on it; that likely won’t come overnight. Good luck with it.

Well here’s my quick and dirty list of things that make your site look like a blog. Remove them from the layout/design and you’ll be okay (or at least well on your way):

Comments
Tag Clouds
Blogrolls
Calendars showing posts (Calendars showing events are okay)

Some FTP clients hide files such as .htaccess. The filter (at least in WS-FTP) to display those “hidden” files is -la.

Backup any .htaccess files you have and upload a blank .htaccess file (use notepad — not MS Word!) to create a blank .htaccess file and upload it via FTP. Change its permissions to 666. Then see if the 500 Internal Server Error goes away. If so, you should be able to login to your WP dashboard and set up your permalinks again. Once you do that and things are still running okay, for security’s sake, go back to FTP and set the permissions on .htaccess back to 644.