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Thanks RoseCitySister, but it doesn’t work. Without keywords listed in SEO, Custom Fields refuses to add a keyword field. “Disabling On Post” disables title, description and keywords.

But I may have found the problem. In adding keywords in SEO, I occasionally left a space after each comma. Removing the space, the keywords are no longer duplicated. So that seems to be solved.

However there is another weird problem. I use Tags for Technorati plugin. On a couple of pages (not posts) it has inserted keywords that are not listed anywhere. I have looked high and low and cannot fathom how it came up with these keywords. They are not the keywords listed in All-in-one-SEO Home Keywords. If you’re interested, they appear as Technorati Tags in the page footer of this page. Other than here, they exist nowhere.

Finally, I never use Custom Fields is why I was hoping someone could point me to the WordPress file where I could delete them. In fact MathewBo came up with a solution in this forum, which he said eliminated custom fields from his blog. But he must have an earlier version as the code in his and mine were slightly different. I nevertheless deleted the relevant block of code from my version, but nothing happened.

During the posting by chaoskaizer I FINALLY SOLVED THIS PROBLEM. Here’s how:

1) A few days ago I came across the following support topic from a couple of months ago:

Can you hide the sidebar in a Page?

Scrolling down to a comment by a certain “genevaeagles” I found his code for “Template Name: Page Templage w/o Sidebar” (see above link). At the time I didn’t think it applied, but a few hours ago I went back to it. I changed the Template title to No Sidebar (no_sidebar.php) and uploaded it to my mistytheme folder.

2) I then edited the css file of my theme by copying the #content-main code, renaming it #content-fullcolumn and extending the original width of 520px to 720px. A shame there isn’t some uniformity in css jargon.

3) Then in the following Theme files: Single Post, Page Template, Archives (archives.php), I changed <div id=”content-main”> to <div id=”content-fullcolumn”> at the top, and removed <?php get_sidebar();?> at the bottom. I may have to change others as time goes by, but this is a new blog so there’s only a few posts so far.

4) I made this change on the 404 Template as well, but it still shows the sidebar, which may not be a bad thing.

So, the No Sidebar template of genevaegles may only effect pages, but the other code has successfully knocked the sidebar out of posts and everywhere else but the homepage.

chaoskaizer, I will try your solution as soon as I get my eyesight back, though at the moment I am to such code as Alan Turing’s gardner was to the Enigma Machine.

Thanks to all and sundry.

Well, I deleted v4.2.4, uploaded v4.3.1. A much improved layout as to information. Emptied the cache of browser etc. This time lots of successes, however, there were lots of encyption failures and the same thing happened when I entered username and password. Got locked out with a 404 staring me in the face.

Interestingly, this time, the only htaccess file that was changed was in wp-admin. The other one was left unchanged. I seem to recall it was changed the last time I tried.

htaccess files are chmod 644. Is this right? Or should they be 755 or 777? or something else. I note authors often say the file or folder should be “writeable” but it would help gits like myself if they gave the exact numerical configuration.

I will fire the changed htaccess to you via email, but I think I’m going to give up on this one.

Thanks for the help.

Many thanks for your help, folks–

I don’t actually want to change what the site looks like on the web. What I do want to change is what I’m looking at in the theme editor, for one example, at the code in “header.php” or any of them, really. It’s in this area that I want to make the print darker. MichaelH’s suggestion to use CTRL + has made everything larger and therefore easier to read. But I want to make it all darker, as in some degree of font-style: bold.

It would seem that this is controlled not by the particular theme I’m using (all theme codes look the same in theme editor) but in the bowels of WordPress itself.

Maybe this is impossible?

In the end, I deleted all WordPress files and uploaded again. To make the install work I had to empty my MySQL tables. Given a new password and presto – the site now appears.

I haven’t made any changes to it yet, so I may be signing back in sooner or later.

Looking forward to using WordPress. My old site used Movable Type. Time for a change.