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# squamloon

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
    In
   reply to: [Is an automatic post from a Twitter tweet now impossible?](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-an-automatic-post-from-a-twitter-tweet-now-impossible/)
 *  Thread Starter [squamloon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/squamloon/)
 * (@squamloon)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/is-an-automatic-post-from-a-twitter-tweet-now-impossible/#post-2155059)
 * Thanks for the reply—I feared as much.
 * BTW your VoodooPress blog was incredibly helpful for me a few months ago when
   I took the plunge and upgraded from a very old version. Thanks so much for that
   too.
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Parent and Basic Child Theme fonts aren't identical](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-and-basic-child-theme-fonts-arent-identical/)
 *  Thread Starter [squamloon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/squamloon/)
 * (@squamloon)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-and-basic-child-theme-fonts-arent-identical/#post-2050375)
 * Well I’ll be darned. And I’d forgotten the second apostrophe in that iteration
   as well! (I’d had other issues with DreamWeaver crashing and downloading a new
   text editor, etc.)
 * Thanks, Amy! That was fast!
 * Sheepishly,
    James
 *   Forum: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
   
   In reply to: [wp-config error going from 2.3 to 3.1 and MySQL4 to MySQL5](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-config-error-going-from-23-to-31-and-mysql4-to-mysql5/)
 *  Thread Starter [squamloon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/squamloon/)
 * (@squamloon)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-config-error-going-from-23-to-31-and-mysql4-to-mysql5/#post-2047068)
 * Well 18 hours later I emerge battered and bruised but victorious.
 * Thank you, govpatel, for the zen-like single sentence that got me where I needed
   to go.
 * For the sake of others who may need to learn from my journey, here are the key
   solutions I found in other posts in the Codex along the way.
 * 1. When I tried to put my old site back to start over, the web page worked, but
   my Admin password didn’t, and I couldn’t remember which email address I’d originally
   used for my Admin account. I was able to go in and find it through PHPAdmin, 
   then send myself an email to reset the password.
 * 2. The increments that worked for me to upgrade from version 2.3 were: 2.3 to
   2.5, 2.5 to 2.8.5, and then the automatic upgrade (JOY!) to the latest version.
 * 3. Two of the three times I upgraded, it didn’t “take” until I deleted the old
   cookie from my website from my browser.
 * 4. I had to stay with the MySQL4 database until version 2.8.5, and at that point
   it was obligatory to point to the MySQL5 one.
 * 5. While the _localhost_ line in wp-config.php states that 99% of the time it
   doesn’t have to be changed, I guess I was in the 1% who had to change it. My 
   hosting service had the setting, though, and it was: **localhost:/tmp/mysql5.
   sock**
 * ======
    So I’m a 21st century WordPresser now —— sort of. [http://www.squamloon.com](http://www.squamloon.com)
 * I don’t expect any answers, but if anyone has any advice on what I should do 
   next, I’d gladly welcome it. I want to keep the look and feel of the theme that
   I painstakingly created back in 2006, but I want to be able to take advantage
   of all of the new bells and whistles. And as you can see above, I’m definitely
   an amateur.
 * Questions (on the off chance that someone wants to answer):
    1. I fixed the permalink
   structure, but there’s stillgobbledygook at the end of the page address when 
   someone clicks on the “add a comment” thing. Where do I change that?
 * 2. Should I just go into the new Theme folders and grab code to replace piecemeal
   into my old Theme? Or is the whole file structure and language syntax so different
   from 5 years ago that that’s impossible?
 * Again—no answers expected. I’ll ask those ones on their own in the forums if 
   no one responds.
 * Thanks again govpatel!
 * —James
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Get blankness when replacing kubrickheader.jpg](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-blankness-when-replacing-kubrickheaderjpg/)
 *  Thread Starter [squamloon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/squamloon/)
 * (@squamloon)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-blankness-when-replacing-kubrickheaderjpg/#post-246493)
 * Guess what? I am now officially absolutely excited about this steep learning 
   curve, and I am already humbly indebted to the two of you, and ready to be so
   to many more people out there. THANK YOU. This is going to be an amazing journey.

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