philipus

Thanks. But this doesnt answer my questions. Anymore ideas? Im very grateful.

As for the validator, that’s something I’ll have a look at later. Though I note that it mainly picks up on <br> tags which allegedly are unclosed.

Thanks again
Philip

Yeah it’s strange. The answer is probably in the code somewhere; i’m just not clever enough to see it. Here’s the full code:

<p class="cmeta"><?php bloginfo('description'); ?></p>

<?php if (function_exists('wp_theme_switcher')) { ?>
<li><h2><?php _e('Themes'); ?></h2>
<?php wp_theme_switcher(); ?>
</li>
<?php } ?>

<!-- site related posts get listed here: remove comments if you have Pages created and want them listed -->
<!--
<h3>Site Related</h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?>
</ul>
-->

<br><br>
<h1><strong><a href="http://philipus.com"><font color="#000066">PHILIPUS.COM</font></a></strong></h1>
<div align="center"><font color="#000066">Intermittently ranting<br>since 1999
</font></div>
<div align="center">
<br>
Welcome.
<br>
I'm Philip Dygeus
<br>
and this is my site.
<br>
<br><font color="#888888"><u>Status:</u></font><font color="#006699"> Learning manga</font><br><br>
<a href="http://philipus.com/about/"><strong>Let's talk about me</strong></a><br>

<a href="http://philipus.com/latest-news/"><strong>"Latest News"</strong></a><br>

<a href="mailto:blog AT philipus DOT com"><strong>Drop me a line</strong></a> <br>
<br>
</div>

<h3>Recent</h3>
<ul>
<?php get_archives('postbypost', 12); ?>
</ul>

<h3><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h3>
<ul>
<?php list_cats(0, '', 'name', 'asc', '', 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0,'','','','','') ?>
</ul>

<h3><?php _e('Archives'); ?></h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
</ul>
<br>
<br>
<!-- start links -->
<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>

<?php
$link_cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories");
foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) {
?>
<h3><?php echo $link_cat->cat_name; ?></h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_links($link_cat->cat_id); ?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>

<!-- end links -->

<!-- // <?php get_calendar(); ?> -->

<!-- // <label for="s"><?php _e('Search:'); ?></label> --> <br />
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>">
<div>

<p>
<input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="15" />
&nbsp;</p>
<p>
<input type="submit" value="<?php _e('search'); ?>" />
</p>
</div>
</form>

<?php /* If this is a category archive */ if (is_category()) { ?>
<p class="cmeta">You are currently browsing the archives for the <?php single_cat_title(''); ?> category.</p>

<?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_day()) { ?>
<p class="cmeta">You are currently browsing the <a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>"><?php echo bloginfo('name'); ?></a> weblog archives
for the day <?php the_time('l, F jS, Y'); ?>.</p>

<?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_month()) { ?>
<p class="cmeta">You are currently browsing the <a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>"><?php echo bloginfo('name'); ?></a> weblog archives
for <?php the_time('F, Y'); ?>.</p>

<?php /* If this is a yearly archive */ } elseif (is_year()) { ?>
<p class="cmeta">You are currently browsing the <a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>"><?php echo bloginfo('name'); ?></a> weblog archives
for the year <?php the_time('Y'); ?>.</p>

<?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (is_search()) { ?>
<p class="cmeta">You have searched the <a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>"><?php echo bloginfo('name'); ?></a> weblog archives
for <strong>'<?php echo wp_specialchars($s); ?>'</strong>. If you are unable to find anything in these search results, you can try one of these links.</p>

<?php /* If this is a monthly archive */ } elseif (isset($_GET['paged']) && !empty($_GET['paged'])) { ?>
<p class="cmeta">You are currently browsing the <a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>"><?php echo bloginfo('name'); ?></a> weblog archives.</p>

<?php } ?>

<h3><?php _e('Meta'); ?></h3>
<br>
<a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer&quot; title="<?php _e('Check it yourself'); ?>"><?php _e('Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr> 1.1'); ?></a>

<br>
<?php } ?>

<a href="http://wordpress.org">WordPress</a><br><a href="feed:<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Entries (RSS)</a>
<br><a href="feed:<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>">Comments (RSS)</a>
<!-- <?php echo $wpdb->num_queries; ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. -->

<!-- This nice layout and design is by Chyetanya Kunte - http://ckunte.com/ -->

The code in sidebar.php is this:

<!-- start links -->
<?php /* If this is the frontpage */ if ( is_home() || is_page() ) { ?>

<?php
$link_cats = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT cat_id, cat_name FROM $wpdb->linkcategories");
foreach ($link_cats as $link_cat) {
?>
<h3><?php echo $link_cat->cat_name; ?></h3>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_links($link_cat->cat_id); ?>
</ul>
<?php } ?>

<!-- end links -->

I’ve tried several things deleting all of it and also deleting the <?php wp_get_links bit with surrounding tags. The result is always this error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected '}' in /home/philipu/public_html/wp-content/themes/plain-vanilla/sidebar.php on line 105

Deleting in wp-admin does not work. It renders this error:

Can’t delete the Blogroll link category: this is the default one

Any ideas?

Thanks Monika. I had a look but cannot find anything. I’ve checked in style.css for info on what is defining that list (which is an “ordinary” ul li list). There are a few “margin” settings but none of them appears to be working…Sigh

Most bizarre, if I use the upload feature instead of WSFTP then I get it to display. Thanks anyway

Thanks Skippy. Double posting was a result of accidentally pressing Enter and then Stop when posting because I hadnt included the second question. Many thanks also for the link to the pages template.