Dave Naylor

I think what’s happening is the expected result. The sticky post appears before the remainder of the posts, stuck as post one which may be styled differently. The second post is the last post you wrote and would naturally appear next. Do you have blog posts set to show one post only?

It’s difficult to fully understand with your site URL.

What user role do you have on the site?

It’s not usually possible. How are new users given the contributor role. The account I created as a test the other day does indeed have the ability to create posts. This really shouldn’t be the case.

From where did you get the theme?

1. You can select only those files you’ve edited and upload those. If you want the process to be more automated I think you can upload selected files based on their timestamp.

In truth FTP isn’t the best tool to deploy updated files. The use of version control systems, dedicated deployment services and good old rsync are all much better than FTP. Each comes with a learning curve.

2. You don’t need to upload the database unless you want local changes to be reflected on the remote server.

So, the error is telling you that the prefix can only contain numbers, letters and underscores. Yours contains a period.

Login to your hosting and see if you can administrate your database from there. You usually can. See what the names of your database tables are. The prefix in wp-config.php should match the actual prefix in the database. If there’s a mis-match, correct it.

There’s a plugin to edit your prefix in the database:

http://wordpress.org/plugins/db-prefix-change/

I’ve tried Chrome and Firefox (On my main Linux machine) then Chrome, Firefox and Safari on my Apple machine. The site loads no problem on all.

Your site need some configuration. Clicking on one of the categories, for instance fashion, results in the URL changing to:

http://66.147.244.102/~lynngolo/category/fashion/

It’s probably a result of you setting the site up before the DNS propagated. Also, when your site tries to serve a non-existent page, instead of throwing a 404 not found error, it 500 server errors.

As for he blog element of your site, simply add the link to the blog page to your menu as a custom link. You can edit menus in WordPress Dashboard –> Appearance –> Menus.

Are you using a membership plugin of some sort?