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It’s loaded into the ones that I’ve installed. Maybe it’s a quirk of the server I use which offers WP as a one-click install.

Regardless, whooami, you seem to be a snot based on this and other posts I’ve read of yours.
thanks for coming along and posting useless crap on this thread after it was resolved and soundly ignoring it when I still needed help.

Hopefully by the time you stop being 13, you’ll have learned some basic decency.

Well, no one posted anything here to help solve this but I was able to figure out a solution anyway. In case anyone ever comes across this again, the problem seems to be in the plug in wp-cache which is apparently totally unnecessary tends to break like this a lot and is for some reason loaded in a lot of WP installations by default.

Anyway, the fix was to use an FTP client and go to the blog’s plugins directory and delete the folder wp-cache. fixed!

Ok. First of all, MAD PROPS AND MUCH RESPECT to Doodlebee. Thank you thank you thank you for all the time and effort you put into this and for fixing the problem! I really appreciate that.

Next, when I started this process, I DID go to the admin page and changed the settings there to the new blog address per the instructions I noted in my first post. However, when I then clicked on Update in order to save the settings, I started getting the error messages. Did I do that step out of order? I thought it was an odd thing to do, as WP would then point to a place that did not yet exist and how then would I get to my admin page?

I didn’t touch the wp-blog-header.php file or the index.php file except to move them along with all the other files. I have no idea how that item got changed.

Third, the plugin does not sound familiar to me so was it something there by default? Weird anyway and I plan not to use IT again.

Again, Doodlebee, thank you SO much. If there is anything I can do, please email me off line.

charlie

yes. I moved all of the files in my root directory – where my blog had been living – to the new /blog directory. As you can see, it is still not working.

Additionally, I tried to install a new version of WP in the /blog directory and then restore my db backup but that did not work. Everything in the main column of the blog was missing.

Can anyone suggest anything else I can do please?

Thanks!

Ah. yes. but this orders it only in the dashboard. Not on the site

I’m with the OP. My upgrade from 1.5 to 2.+ was horrific and I followed the directions exactly and carefully and I am pretty confident in my computer sjkills. I am no hacker or anything, but I understand the concepts behind the things one has to do for a WP upgrade.

There is no way I am upgrading again at any time soon until someone comes up with a really simple way to do it.

No that’s not my page. that’s where the theme came from. sorry if I was unclear.
my site is charlesredell.com

Yes. It is the default category and can not be deleted.
??

I have to bump this because it is getting to be quite annoying as one of the main reasons I switched to wordpress was for the categories. Below, I have posted my bug report to mosquito. Please, can SOMEONE, ANYONE help me?
Thanks!

Whenever I write a post to my blog, it is labeled with the category “uncategorized” as well as the category I choose. This happens even though the uncategorized box is NOT checked on my write page.
I am able to go back and edit the post to remove the uncategorized label after first publishing.
If I write a post and save it as draft and then go to edit it, the uncategorized box is checked on the edit page although it was not checked on the original page nor did I choose it myself. If I uncheck it there, and then publish the post, the uncategorized label is not present though the label I choose is.
I have disabled all plugins, switched my theme (currently using Flex)and changed my default category from Uncategorized to “Just some ramblings” which is ID#2.
I have tried checking and then unchecking “uncategorizing” prior to publishing.
None of my categories have parent categories.
I have tried this on two machines. One using Windows 98 and one using Windows XP Personal (or home, whatever it is called).
I am running Firefox 1.0.2 on both machines.
I did try to use a tool to import my blog from a blogger account (which is available here: https://www.skeltoac.com/2005/03/12/from-blogger-to-wordpress-2/) though it ended up erasing all of my formatting and I had to go in and drop my wp-pages table and re-build it (I am not experienced with MySQL but got some coaching in doing this).
I did browse though my db to see if somewhere I have the category default set wrong in there but couldn’t see anything that looked like it was wrong.
My Web site is at charlesredell.com

so does that mean some snippet of code could be added to the page that would call posts only of a certain category?
If so, what would that code look like or where could I find out?
Thanks again,
c

ok. thanks. so that kind of makes sense and I think I can do it (i’m not experienced in PHP at all if that isn’t obvious. but I can play).
However, from reading it, it doesn’t look like that alone would make a post go onto another page (other than the main page of the blog). It would just keep it off the main page. Am I right? If so, is there a hack that I could use to make posts in a specific category publish on only one page?
Is that another way to use “The Loop”? If so, can someone help me create the code for that please?
If that is an inapproprate request, please let me know. I don’t want to demand anything of anyone. But it sounds like it might be a cool feature and if there is someone out there who could/wants to do it, I bet people would use it.
Thanks!
c

Yes. But then how do I force it to post to the page and not the front page?

Thank you! That worked perfectly!
c

IT may have been. I don’t know. I finally just backed up my db, and dropped my wp_posts and rebuilt that table. I now have a fresh, clean site with no blogger archives. *sigh*
it works though:
charlesredell.com