tastewar

Thank you, @thelmachido — that definitely got me closer to where I want to be. I added a cover block, and moved my pseudo-title to text on top of it (there was a placeholder). On that piece of text, I can change many attributes, including horizontal alignment within its rectangle. But I am maddeningly incapable of figuring out how to move the text so it aligns with the bottom of the image. There is no vertical justification option, and there is no “handle” for me to grab to reposition the block — UI clues that I am accustomed to in other layout tools. Any ideas? the site is tastewar dot com and I am trying to move the text that’s over the header image down. Thanks again for helping me figure out how to add the cover block!

Ok, working together with my ISP, this has been solved. I won’t claim to understand it completely, but as I understand it, the crux of the issue had to do with the account under which WP runs. On the problematic site, the WP process runs as ‘nobody.’ Running a script to touch all php files as follows:

// Script to fix .php files in main Coppermine directory
//     to run under user's ID as CGI script
// - Adds shebang line to beginning of each php script
// - Changes php file permissions to 0755

Has fixed the problem, with the side effect that in the admin UI the text

#!/usr/bin/php

appears pretty frequently. Also did not notice any actual change in file permissions. Have not noticed any side effects in the main (consumer) UI.

Thanks, Tim. Can you point me to anything which documents the correct permissions and what directories need to be setup in what way? On the surface of it, the two sites appear to have identical permissions, but I don’t know if the owner is different between the two. When I ftp to both sites, and do a “dir” command (which lists more details, including two username columns), on both servers, both username columns show the user account I am logging on to, when listing the “wp-admin” directory. I assume one of those columns is the owner.

There is *one* noticeable difference: on the updateable server, the listing for the parent directory (..) shows 99 in the second user column, whereas in the broken one, it shows the user account name.

The “broken” install was installed in a subdirectory (“dev”) whereas in the working one, the install was in the more standard “public_html” directory (don’t know how common that is, both of these are hosted on sites that use cPanel shared hosting software, and in fact both are at the same hosting company, though the non-working one is through a reseller.

And I definitely *do* have valid FTP creds — I use them all the time for command line FTP. Can you be more specific about “proper PHP extensions?”

Thanks, esmi.

1. Can someone give me a little more detail about how WP knows or chooses to use the “newer” update method vs. the old ftp method?

2. Seems to me it’s not the host — when I ftp directly, the same credentials work swimmingly.

Thanks; I should have mentioned that it is enabled there, so there must be something else I’m missing.

Works! Thanks!!

Thanks, Michael! This is really getting somewhere. I have two next questions:

1. Now, when I click on a post to view it, the previous and next post links are on the opposite sides from where they should be. Which is to say they are still in the default, rev. chrono. orientation, and I’d like to get them switched when being viewed from this perspective. I imagine that this would involve editing another template file. Perhaps you can point me to somewhere that would document how that template is chosen, and whether I have an opportunity to introduce a custom one without breaking the normal view.

2. The only thing that could make this better would be if it were indeed a special page rather than pointing to the Trip Log archive. Ideally, if someone clicks on the trip log category, it would bring up the standard rev. chrono view, but if they click on my diary page in the nav bar, it would come up with this view. It’s easy enough to get the old behavior back — I change the name of my custom template file to something else, like say diary.php. Then I should be able to create a new page with diary.php as the template, and somehow tell it that the category is “Trip Log” but the choice of templates is a very limited drop down. Am I on the right track??

Thanks again — this is getting fun (for me anyway)