Jay

Chevy, while I’m not the author of the theme, I have been hacking away at it for a few days to customize it to my needs.

I can help with #1, though I’ve not had the need to modify the code in such a way to handle #2.

This theme sets a ‘default’ featured image, which is a no no of course, so if you don’t set a featured image, you’re going to get the default, in this case it’s going to be images/default.png

So, if you open up content-single.php and remove the else statement, you will stop getting a default featured image.

// content-single.php lines 32-45
<?php if ( has_post_thumbnail( ) )
	{
		the_post_thumbnail( );

	}
// Remove this
	else
		{
			//To display the default featured image in posts
			$img_url = esc_url(get_template_directory_uri() . '/images/default.png');

			echo "<img src={$img_url} >";
		}
// Do not remove past here.
?>

Check the register_form() function, which you can alter. More on the codex: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Action_Reference/register_form

Also shows you how to modify the form’s current fields.

Merging two different themes will definitely be a pain, unless, both themes use a common framework, like bootstrap or foundation. Even then, you’re still looking at a significant amount of time needed to merge styles and resources.

More than likely HTML elements will have different class names, so you’ll need to change those, or bring in the appropriate css. If the css is hierarchical then that’s another problem, you’ll have to break that out. If the theme has Sass or Less files, this’ll be a lot easier.

Don’t even get me started on javascript… that’s a whole other beast entirely. Depending on themes, you may have issues there.

Consider looking at the WordPress Template Hierarchy to get an idea of which theme file does what. This way, you’ll know more of what you have to move, instead of attempting to combine an entire theme into another one.

I’ve never really used WP to repair crashed tables, may I suggest, if you have the capability, to use MySQL directly?
REPAIR TABLE wp_options;

You can also run that in PHPMyAdmin under the sql tab, though the MySQL terminal may give you abit more of an output.

More info on REPAIR TABLE: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/repair-table.html

Check your error logs for the apache installation, or your debug.log in wp-content/ if you have that enabled. There could be many different things at play here.

If you’re on a Centos install you can check /etc/httpd/logs/error_log, other systems may vary by distributor.

The first that comes to mind is maybe the storage is full?

Your code has conditionals but it’s only checking if both is set, if so, it’s displaying both logos. Instead, break the two down into one single conditional, and set the image source and id’s depending on what you want. You could probably compress this a bit, but should do the job.

<a>
	<?php
	$src = '';
	$id  = '';
	if( isset( $logoURL['background-image'] ) ){
		$src = $logoURL['background-image'];
		$id = 'main-logo';
	} elseif( isset( $smallLogoUrl['background-image'] ) ){
		$src = $smallLogoUrl['background-image'];
		$id = 'main-logo-min';
	}
	?>
	<img src="<?php echo $src; ?>" id="<?php echo $id; ?>" />
</a>

One of two things, either WP.org’s SSL cert has expired, which I doubt, or your system’s date/time is wrong. I had a similar issue where my son had changed my date-time on my laptop, only to be told by google that their SSL cert was invalid.

If for some reason that fails, it could also be your local xampp install. Try running xampp-control as admin then re-doing the template install. If that doesn’t work, try installing the latest xampp.

I use xampp as well locally, currently v3.1.0 Beta 6, and haven’t had that problem on Win 7 Pro.

This definitely isn’t a bug in 4.0, I have multiple 4.0 installs. Looking at core there’s no unexpected end.

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.0/src/wp-includes/user.php#L416

I would compare your user.php to this one. Also, don’t forget to check your mu-plugins folder for possible files.