Blogroll disappeared

Thank you. On your advice I deleted error log and index.php

Where does style.css, which I just learned is the same as stylesheet, go?

What I mean is, WP tells me theme.css is not installed. You say it belongs in the theme folder. Style.css is already in the theme folder.

You wrote:

Secondly, there should not be any stray files inside your wp-content/themes/ directory. There should be theme directories, and then files inside those directories.

So I deleted the “stray file” index.php. Now I read this:

“The HTML code and CSS references that hold the structure of your page are generally found in the index.php file in your Theme folder.”

https://tinyurl.com/27pz7w

Maybe I should click on the word “cutline” at the bottom of my page, instead of the word “copyright”, download the theme zip file again, and upload the new file. Will that work?

Do I need to delete the old theme folder, or can I just overwrite?

So now I’ve come full circle. I’ve update WP, and downloaded the same theme I had before. Still no blogroll.

You said I need to insert this line of code:

<?php wp_list_bookmarks(‘categorize=0&title_li=’); ?>

Here:

• /archives” title=”Visit the archives!”>Visit the archives for more!

Does that mean I replace one line of code with the other? Or do I insert the top line into the second, longer line?

That’s one of the few themes I’ve seen that doesn’t have the blogroll code already in place. Open up either l_sidebar.php or r_sidebar.php and insert the code whooami gave you wherever you want the blogroll to appear.

Take notice of the particular styling that theme uses and style that code the same way.

More on the use of that tag and the arguments you can use with it here.

I inserted the code. No blogroll has appeared. Do I need to delete a line of code, too?

Well, I don’t know what you’re doing or how you’re doing it. A shot in the dark – are you using widgets? Because if you are that will overwrite any hardcoding you add to the theme.

I’m inserting code in the r-sidebar file in the theme folder. Isn’t that what whooami was instructing me to do?

Yes you can put it in either sidebar. But you haven’t answered my question – are you using widgets?

I’m not that clear on what widgets are. According to WP, WordPress Widgets (WPW) provide a simple way to “arrange the various elements of your sidebar content (known as “widgets”) without having to change any code.” So if any sidebar content is a widget, then yes, my blogroll is a widget, and since I am using a blogroll, then I am using a widget. But then, if I have been told to change code, then according to this definition I’m not using widgets.

So I guess the answer to your question is yes, I am using widgets, with a small w. But no, I am not using WPW.

Well … from that rather cryptic answer we can assume you don’t really know what widgets are so you probably aren’t using them. But I’d like to eliminate that scenario as a possible cause nevertheless. From your Dashboard click on Presentation > Widgets and see if there are any widgets listed in your sidebars. You’ll see a complete list of them underneath that.

i finally just uploaded that theme to a dev install of bleeding.

it DOES show the blogroll, its using get_links

at any rate, here it is, the right hand sidebar file, with that bit added:

Copy and paste this at your leisure

https://www.village-idiot.org/broke/r_sidebar.txt

Thanks whoo. I was going to install that damn theme on Xampp already to see what the heck was going on.

Classy.

Yeah, very classy. You should be so lucky. Youre welcome, all the same.