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That page turned out to be very, very long. Unless you have a bunch of static pages, I think that whatever page WP is using, it’s grabbing all posts and pages (they’re all stored in the same table).

Do you have a file in your theme folder named “404.php”? If so, just rename it to “old-404.php” — then try that URL again. Does the problem still occur?

If you’re not using a 404.php file, then WP is using the theme’s index.php as a fallback.

I’m thinking that (1) there’s some custom query (using query_posts or get_posts) that is calling all posts or (2) your blog is set to show all posts on a page (Settings – Reading – Blog pages show at most — is set to “-1”) — though “www.booberfish.com/blog/” only has twelve posts and has links for older pages.

i am willing to reinstall wordpress all together, but if I do this, is there a way for me to import/transfer the content from my current one? which file do I transfer?

All your content is stored inside a MySQL database. For back-up instructions, see Codex: Backing Up Your Database. The one file that’s helpful to save is your wp-config.php, in case you don’t have the database user-name/password written down someplace.

To add-onto ClaytonJames’ posts, there also appears to be a WP installation in the root of the site, because when I tried to see if a wp-admin/ folder existed off the root, I was redirected to a login page. The stylesheet(s) for that page did not load.

A look at the source of the unstyled login page shows this as one of the stylesheet links:

http://www.uniteddivas.com/index.php/wp-admin/css/login.css

I’m thinking that somewhere/somehow the address for that installation was set as http://www.uniteddivas.com/index.php which is being treated by WP as http://www.uniteddivas.com/index.php/ (or is the /index.php/ part of your permalink settings?)

A quick fix might be to create a folder named index.php in the root of your site and upload a WordPress installation into that. (You might also need to modify a config file, so let us know if this doesn’t work). If you can get into the Admin area, export your site, just to be safe.

It looks like you have a static front page (an index.htm or index.html file) sharing the root with this WP installation. If I understand correctly, WP assumes that it’s index.php file is the only index file inside a folder.

E.g., for your root WP install, WP will be asking the server to serve up the index file in your website’s root. The server will reply with the index.htm(l) instead of the index.php file.

tsrainer, I had a mini-epiphany right after I wrote that post. Here’s my new thoughts. The problem is that your theme has the “About” and “Archive” links hard-coded as permalinks.

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The link that your blog is using for your About page is “http://blog.staceyrainerphotography.com/about/” and your Archives is similar (ends with “/archives/”). Those are pretty permalink URLs. I downloaded the theme. It looks like your theme (3-Column-Pressrow) has those links hard-coded:

<li><a class="archives" href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/archives/">archives</a></li>
<li><a class="about" href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/about/">about</a></li>

As I see it, you have three options:
(1) Change to a different theme.
(2) Enable permalinks (which since you are on an Apache server, shouldn’t be that difficult).
(3) Manually edit the links (they are in the header.php file of your template).

If you want to use pretty permalinks, then read through the Codex page, Using Permalinks. This plugin may be helpful: Ask Apache RewriteRules Viewers.

If you want to change the links in your theme, then let us know. I won’t waste time listing that how-to here.

SO… to pose a question back to you… if I create a new file with the blog header included, and run a loop to spit out my posts, will I still be able to pass variables to the code such as cat=6??

It’s just PHP. To test your question would have taken less than five minutes:
(1) In a text editor, create a new file
(2) Add the blogheader line.
(3) Add some quick PHP code (hint, hint — $_GET and WP’s query_posts)
(4) Copy/paste a loop from a default theme.
(5) Save the file and move it to a server or your test server.
(6) Access the file inside a browser with a query string.

Don’t ask a question that you can answer yourself, or at least be more forthright about your expertise. This is the “Requests and Feedback” sub-forum, not one of the support sub-forums. My earlier post was meant to show that what you asked for is possible and not that “hard” for someone who understands how WP works and has a basic understanding of PHP.

What browser are you using? Try writing a post in another browser (Firefox, Opera, IE, Safari). Does the error still occur? Does this happen when you post a comment?

This sounds like a cookie issue and we need to isolate whether it is happening on the client-side (your browser) or the server-side.

Link to the feed in question?

In your theme is there a category.php file? If so, rename it to old-category.php. Then, view your category pages. WP will use the index.php file in your theme instead. Now, does the problem go away?

If so, and the layout is okay, then that should solve your problem. If you later want to customize your category pages, copy the index.php file from your template and rename it to “category.php”.

The only thing that really has me stumped is why I cannot for the life of me seem to make a NEW custom rss feed?

What kind of “NEW custom rss feed” are you trying to make?

If it’s just a standard WP feed with a custom query, WP already does that. Googling ‘wordpress “custom feed”‘ brings up the following on the first results page: Creating Custom WordPress Feeds.

You can limit a query to posts by a specific author on a specific day with a specific tag.

Now, if you want to create a custom RSS feed, or even a file with a custom XML structure, all you need is to create a PHP file and put at the top something like the following: <?php require('/wp-blog-header.php'); ?>
Then you can use some custom query_post() query and design whatever your heart desires.