Lorelle

Do any of the categories have posts in them? Ah, looking at your site, you have no posts PERIOD.

You have to have posts in your categories in order to see them. No posts, no categories.

As someone experienced about WordPress and also suffering from “upgrading-deer-caught-in-the-headlights” thing, I put off upgrading the smallest patch. I understand what you are going through, but we have a couple of issues that need to be dealt with.

1) You trusted someone else to install the program for you and then you went ahead and “did” things to it with little or no experience. Have you learned anything during the process? Weren’t those plugins, hacks, template file changes and so on educational? Have you learned anything about how WordPress works? Just curious. This kind of learning should ease your fears.

2) The changes you have made are within your /wp-content/ folder. It says VERY clearly that folder is to be left alone in the upgrade instructions. That is the folder that holds your themes and plugins. Leave them alone and nothing will happen. Screw with them every time you add a plugin or mess with the theme templates and you will have problems without running the upgrade. If you made changes to the core files, which is warned against repeatedly here and in the Codex, and didn’t take notes, which is also advised here and in the Codex, then you made a mistake. And you will lose those changes. Fact of life when you go into the core programming. But the Themes and Plugins can be messed with all you want and nothing will happen to them if you don’t delete that folder.

3) MANY people are working on ways to improve this process. Give them time to work out all the bugs associated with the thousand and one ways people install and use WordPress. I am continually boggled at the myriad ways people come up with for intalling WordPress. To make a good upgrade program, they have to think about all these different installs.

4) One of the ways things get done around here, all by volunteers as you mentioned, is that someone sees a problem and comes up with a way to fix it. I don’t know if this will help you, but I got tired of reading about everyone’s whines and decided to get past my own fears and procrastination and documented EVERY step of the process on my site. Maybe that will help you, too.

5) Carthik is a very busy volunteer. Because you got handholding once, does not mean he or other volunteers will repeat the process. ALL of us give what free time we have to this process without any payback. If you follow the instructions, your world will not end. All is fixable and you have the BEST here to help you.

Glad to help.

You should also know that there is another plugin with a similar name, just for info, called Enhanced Post View: http://www.coldforged.org/the-enhanced-view-plugin/

It does different but similar things, but you might get some requests for help regarding that plugin, and he might get some of yours. You also might check to make sure the two plugins don’t bork each other with conflicts if someone wants to use both.

Now, if you combine the two into one – that would be AWESOME since I’d love to have both features. 😉

Thanks for adding to the wealth of plugins for WordPress and make sure it is added to:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins
http://www.wp-plugins.net

Please contact the plugin author directly or via his or her website for help on that. You may find the answer already there.

Be sure and add this Theme to the Theme list at http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Themes/Theme_List

Consider asking at blogjet.

I assume this is a program or site that allows you to post to your WordPress site while browsing or reading their feeds or site? Consider using http://codex.wordpress.org/Press_It instead.