theblacksheep

thank you for that marventus, but i believe that isn’t the cause of the issue here…

esmi, i copied the whole of the old theme folder back into the new fresh one and then, i deleted the search.php and searchpage.php files as they were the last files i created before the meltdown. problem remains. so then, i took out the functions.php file too, and went back into the admin. problem gone! put the search.php and searchpage.php files back in and there’s no problem so FUNCTIONS.PHP seems to be the cause. however, the issue now is, why is this happening.

here is the whole of the functions.php file as it stands:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
        'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
    	'after_widget' => '</div>',
        'before_title' => '<div class="title">',
        'after_title' => '</div>',
    ));

?>

<?php
function new_excerpt_length($length) {
	return 30;
}
add_filter('excerpt_length', 'new_excerpt_length');
?>

the first part i used to enable widgets on the sidebar, the second part i used to add an excerpt to the search results on the search results page.

any ideas?

thank you.

s.

hello again esmi,

my theme seems to be the problem – i removed the added plugins and theme folders from the fresh install. switched back to default theme and created a new page – the permalink box appeared and the page published correctly.

then, i put the old theme folder back in, went to create page, the permalink box DIDN”T appear, instead i get a little light red square under the upload/insert content box.

how can i determine where the problem is, when the theme was seemingly working fine before?

if i open all the files in the old theme folder, the php and css, copy the markup and create new files with that, will this resolve something?

thank you.

s.

ok, thanks cnorris, that wasn’t the problem but i figured it out for now, so far so good. i got rid of the “function init method” line and just stuck to <?php wp_enqueue_script(‘jquery’); ?>, and changed every $ to jQuery. i know that may cause conflicts later. the link that might help anyone else, wordpress support jquery question. any plugins, etc, might cause havoc, but we’ll see when we get there.

grazie all.

s..