Phil

IS this WordPress.com or WordPress.org you set up?

This forum is for self-hosted WordPress sites (on your own server.)

There are some big differences between the two, so if it’s WordPress.com you signed up to, the forum is here: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

When you register a new WordPress site on your own server, you register a username with your email address, so no need to log in at all.

Go to ‘Appearance’, then ‘Widgets’ and put what you want in there instead of whats there at the moment.

The things you see are the default items WordPress puts in there when you haven’t selected any widgets.

The email thing: Not sure what you mean? You used an email address to register with? You just check that email account.

Phil

Check that comments are allowed in the WP Settings.

If already enabled, check posts to see if comments are allowed on the post/page.

Then, I’d check comments.php in the theme to ensure the correct code is there.

Have you tried this in a blank html page? Does it work there?

If so, there could be Javascript scripts used in the theme that cause conflicts. If this is the case, look into ‘Javascript no conflict’ in Google for resetting the function $ before the new script gets called.

Add this to your style.css:

Either at:

#primary – (line 1206 of style.css)

font-size: 12px;

Or, paste into the bottom of your CSS file:

#primary a {
font-size: 12px;
}

Change to whatever you want.

you’d want to add something like this into a .htaccess file. If it doesn’t exist – create one in notepad but save as .htaccess (not .htaccess.txt).

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.yourdomain.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301]

Obviously change ‘yourdomain’ to whatever it is.

In admin:

‘Settings’ –> ‘Reading’

You’ll see option at top to use a page as your homepage as a static page. This allows you to use a page as the homepage of your site.