John H

This is how your Theme you are using breaks up your headline to fit in the static size box on the homepage.

Because the box is only so wide, only so many characters (white space included) will fit in there.

To fix it, you’d have to edit your theme’s code to widen the box. But doing that will affect everything on the right as well.

If you know how to code and design sites, go for it. If not, be real careful because you could really mess things up.

You can try deactivating all your plugins and then doing the upgrade, just in case there’s a plugin causing problems.

If that doesn’t work, there’s a sticky post plugin.

To get your phpMyAdmin login info, head over to your Yahoo’s control panel, then File Manager, navigate to the /blog directory, tick the box next to wp-config.php and click the Edit File button.

Once the file is open, look at the code. You should find your database’s username and password in there. Note it, head over to phpMyAdmin and try logging in.

If that doesn’t get access to your database, you definitely have changed your user credentials for it. This could also be a reason why your website is not coming up.

A possible fix for your current problem:

In your /blog directory you should see the index.php file. Open that file with the editor.

Make sure this code require('./wp-blog-header.php'); reads like that. If you moved it to your root previously, you may have included the path /blog in it. Make sure it looks like the one above.

If all else fails, simply restore your backup. Upload all your WP files to the /blog directory, drop your database tables (if you have access), and upload the new database. If you can’t get access to your database, create a new one, upload your backup database to it, open your wp-config.php file and update it with the new database name, password, etc.

If you’re not sure how to do all that, let us know.

It might change if you changed something within WordPress. For example, if you toyed with your Permalink structure.

The site below shows the code needed for pretty permalink structure if you want to replace it.

http://perishablepress.com/press/2006/06/14/the-htaccess-rules-for-all-wordpress-permalinks/

That’s doable, but not as easy as it may seem. Your database will need to be updated with the new blog address.

Here’s a video on our site on how to move WordPress into your root directory. It’s not exactly what you’re looking to do, but very similar as you’d need to do basically the same thing except rather than transferring your blog to your root, you’re just moving it to another directory.
http://wpbloghost.com/wpbloghost-home-school-for-wordpress/how-to-move-your-wordpress-blog-from-a-subdirectroy-to-root/

Here’s another tutorial WordPress has itself:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

I assume you tried resetting your permalink structure (revert to default and then create the new structure again)?

Some servers require what’s called a refresh of .htaccess files on their servers. This happens once every hour with some companies. So leave your permalink structure intact, wait until the top of the hour hits, and see if they magically work once the hour passes.

Other than that, I haven’t heard of any WP issues.