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I discovered the source of the error to be an older version of the Comments Quicktags plug-in – the newer 1.9 version seems to have resolved it.

Win XP SP2 (Home) – it started in IE6 (but it lasted to IE7)

(FYI Yosemite – I do know how to turn it off simply – Disable display Script Errors in Internet Options.)

It doesn’t appear to be a biggie, but I figured some smart folks would want to take note of it … if it wasn’t just me. I didn’t see it in Opera 8 or 9 or Netscape 8 in either IE or Firefox render mode, but I do not use or configure those browsers to troubleshoot pages, just to see what pages look like to the average geek. Firefox 1.5 didn’t show it either – same comment – I run those without any extensions (beyond my Roboform support plugin.)

It would be easy to say this is just IE weirdness, but I suspect something more may be awry (and I thought it worth a mention.)

Any suggestions on what the problem is? Like something practical perhaps.

Posting gives me an error on Line 27

It appears you are still calling to the default kubrick style sheet
https://www.twobrothersandasister.com/wp-content/themes/default/style.css

body { background: url(“https://www.twobrothersandasister.com/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg”); } #page { background: url(“https://www.twobrothersandasister.com/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickbgwide.jpg”) repeat-y top; border: none; } #header { background: url(“https://www.twobrothersandasister.com/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpg”) no-repeat bottom center; }
#footer { background: url(“https://www.twobrothersandasister.com/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickfooter.jpg”) no-repeat bottom; border: none;}

But I may be wrong.

Some Hosts require you to create the database first which is little more than giving a unique name. Contact them for details since this is what happened to me my first shot at installing.

Hi Onice,

I’m not an expert with Word Press nor familiar with PowWeb, but you should never give out your login or password.

If the WP folders are in your root directory, you will also see an index.html file which is the PowWeb page which I see at your site. Most likely they have supplied you with information about setting up a database or they may have done so for you and given you the necessary infomation to configure your Word Press installation. That is done by editing the wp-config-sample.php file which should also be in your root directory.

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘username’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘password’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

Fill those in with the information PowWeb has supplied you with (or the database name they have told you to make. Then save the file as wp-config.php and upload it to the same root directory. Then open http: //YOUR_SITE_NAME/wp-admin/install.php and you should arrive at a login page with admin as your user name and the password which was generated by Word Press.

When you login there you are at the Dashboard and ready to begin writing and configuring it to your heart’s content.

Am I totally dense but isn’t there a ‘rating’ that could also be used? Granted it’s 1 to 10 (or 0 to 9 technically) but isn’t that what the rating was designed to do?

OK, I’m not clear about those answers. Maybe my question wasn’t clear.

ROOT (containing regular .html files and folders and a .htaccess file)

ROOT/WPblog/(guts of WP and contnts in a quasi-standard arrangement with the .htaccess that sets permalinks)

Question 1. With multiple Themes can one 404.php work across all them? Does it need to set up and referred to outside the Theme’s normal location?
From the two answers above, it seems the default theme that admin selects would overide the Theme the viewer might choose to be using. Or am I reading too much into this.

Question 2. If I set the ErrorDocument in the .htaccess file in ROOT/WPblog/ it covers only errors in that section. Will changing it in ROOT’s .htaccess make it work throughout the whole site as well? And in that case is the full path required?
I’m guessing from the answers it is a yes to both.

Thanks for the responses, sorry for the poorly expressed question. Or maybe I’m just dense this lifetime.

You may need to add or modify <?php get_links_list(‘id’); ?> if get_links is how it reads now. Some themes (like Benevolence) don’t have that line in their sidebar template ‘tweaked’ yet. Hey I’m old and a newbie — gimme a break!

I’m guessing here, but the title of “Mr Obvious” requires some guesswork and creativity (private joke) and it will be mine. If the wine list is your blogroll, add another category of links.
Dashboard > Links > Link Categories
The Add a Link panel is below the list of existing link categories.
https://www.oldnewbie.org/wpblog/
Different Themes handle them differently (which gives me a reason for flaunting my own efforts) so flip through a few to see before you plunge into hand coding.

Link categories are different than Post Categories.

Whoa — the competition in the “Mr Obvious” race is getting fierce!

So the fox is not perfect (hush the Linuxen may hear.)

I’m not a CSS expert and browser vagaries mystify me but around 5AM I got a thought I haven’t looked into about @import – I was too busy to look into because I was moving the direct out of the root folder to /wpblog/ for no pressing reason but to avoid messing with a .htaccess in the root, where my Host has a tool to write into it and I just knew in my guts it would cause a mess.

Also, with some ISPs and a properly configured router an email’s IP points to a larger pool of users. The IP to a website is a different matter. If it were effective, spammers and pop-up advertizers would have been out of business long ago.

Thanks, VKaryl, I had seen the failedvalidation and was too tired and upset to worry further about it the other day.

It complained of a missing close tag for an ul — but having no Pages was leaving the list with not li – or child items. So I added a dummy page.

I was stumped by the second error which sometimes reported a missing close tag for a div and sometimes reported no close tag for body. The line numbers weren’t much of a help. I tried the close div in a few spots but settled on putting in the footer.php above the footer opening comment.

That fixed the page for the validator. FF still renders text only but Opera 7.54 likes what it sees. FF also has trouble with oldnewbie.org that also validates. In FF none of the template renders and even WordPress Default is mangled and I didn’t alter them (except to add the Theme Changer.) Without opening a browser skirmish, I’m not so impressed with the fox.

You know I hadn’t noticed that till you mentioned and now it is driving crazy. I tried a few (quite a few) tweaks but things are getting worse not better. Notice the column is wider now. I’m thinking the .line div is related. I was going to suggest specifying
margin-right: 5px;
but it didn’t really help and it didn’t appear to harm it either when I upped the numbers. I did just notice the negative top margin on the .line class and using it on at top ‘pulls’ the sidebar into place better.

Here is a shot in the dark — try moving the #links ul section above the #links li section in the cascade. There’s a theoretical reason that might make a difference though I’ve yet to prove it myself. Sorry it is too late for me to try it myself.

BTW thanks a heap for making the wider column so obvious to me now — it’ll make me nuts till I figure it out or give up and switch to tweaking a different theme more. ??

“Why don’t you think that publishing IP is a bad form?” You meant do, I think, from the context. The whole notion of black listing is questionable. Some argue fundamentally flawed. When you see an IP, do you actually check that it is who the posting says it is? Some don’t. Is the poster making a justified accusation or is it a squabble over something else?

Is it the IP to your target or to their host server where others may be hosting and be blocked unintentionally? This once happened with a large hosting company being put on a black list by a spyware blocking group and affected me. I was merrily editing pages but outside the editor I could not view them while the particular blocking software was run and altered my Hosts file effectively censoring a large chunk of the internet for me and anyone who used that software.

Yes, spamming is bad, wasteful, evil, and a royal pain in the asq, but posting an IP so others will preemptively censor remains bad netiquette in my mind and it invites abuse and misuse as I outlined.

PS I was testing the spyware blocker at the time, but it still took over a month to rectify and though the toolis better I still wouldn’t even mention it by name, let alone recommend it. ??