morepars

All of this info has gotten me to the brink of being 100%. I found widgets and I found php files (text and php that you can add to a sidebar) that I recreated on my site and now all the formatting is perfect. My problem is still links. But here is the catch, and I don’t think it is fatal. If I change from custom to the default structure on my local site, the links work fine. But when I return to custom and use what I have on Godaddy, which is: /%postname%/
the links don’t work.
This is not the end of the world and I am fully operational now. I would like for curiosity sake to know why it works with default but not custom, but I can do my work now. Thank you so much. I couldn’t have ever imagined I would have received such comprehensive and responsive help in this forum!

First off, thanks for this. I would have been totally lost without this direction. I am so close now. I downloaded the database. I replaced morepars.com with localhost. I exported and imported the database just as you asked me to do. I have pretty links so I moved the htaccess file down from GoDaddy to my machine. When I go to localhost wp-admin and log in I see all my posts etc. so everything seems to be in place. The problem is when I browse localhost the formatting is not quite right (the them is there but not formatted properly. I have a custom theme a company made for me. It appears the sidebar is screwed up. And when I go to my links I get errors…for example, from my home page if i click the link to my blog I get an error. Any idea of what I can try to fix this one last piece? One thing I thought of is I do have some plug-ins installed. Would I need to install them on my local machine as well or would they have made their way to me via the export/import? Thanks again!