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Doodlebee – I do appreciate your suggestions in your 2nd post. Thank you.

Otto, thank you. I had 3 people all saying, “It’s not WordPress/WP can’t do that.” Geez.

Problem is now solved. I chose a standard Blogger template, and the site is back online, with all my posts. It’s not as great as my customized template (prior to the import), but at least it’s back online. I’ll post a message on the main Blogger template to refer people to the new WordPress site. It’ll be nice having the Blogger site still online, since it’s got PR, and will provide an incoming link to the new WP site.

I still think that the plugin author should state that the import script CHANGES the template (and then changes the template back–assuming the import is successful). If I had read text, informing me that the import feature would be **modifying** my template, I would have had a compelling reason to backup the template.

I figured the plugin author was just being overly cautious, telling everyone to backup everything before importing. Thus, I ignored the “the backup your template” step. Lesson learned (the hard way): backup your template before importing.

Thanks again.

Doodlebee – No offense, but you don’t know what you’re talking about. Yes, the homepage message **WAS** created by the WordPress import feature. In fact, the message contains a link to a “better blogging tool” (anchor text that links to www.remarpro.com). There’s no way Blogger would put a link to WordPress and call it “a better blogging tool.” Blogger’s system is up and running fine. I have more than one blog, and all homepages are fine, with the exception of one blog that I imported into WordPress.

Oh, and the “temporarily out of service message” has been displaying for the past 28 hours. Blogger is NOT down, and has NOT been down for the past 28 hours.

Back to the point…

1.) Whoever created this plugin, needs a warning that the import feature will modify your template. The code appearing inside the template is, in fact, created by the import plugin. This is the code the Import feature inserts into the Blogger template…

<MainPage>

Are you looking for
MyBlogNameHere? It is temporarily out of service. Please try again in a few minutes. Meanwhile, discover a better blogging tool.

<BloggerArchives>“><$BlogArchiveName$>
</BloggerArchives></MainPage><ArchivePage><Blogger>
<wordpresspost><$BlogItemDateTime$>|W|P|
<$BlogItemAuthorNickname$>|W|P|<$BlogItemBody$>|W|P|
<$BlogItemNumber$>|W|P|<$BlogItemTitle$>|W|P|
<$BlogItemAuthorEmail$><BlogItemCommentsEnabled>
<BlogItemComments><wordpresscomment>
<$BlogCommentDateTime$>|W|P|<$BlogCommentAuthor$>|W|P|
<$BlogCommentBody$></BlogItemComments>
</BlogItemCommentsEnabled></Blogger></ArchivePage>

2.) Is there any way to restore the old template and get rid of this new “message” that’s appearing on the Blogger homepage?

Awesome, that did it. Thanks, HandySolo. Being locked out of your own blog is pretty unnerving! I wonder why the plugin wouldn’t let me access my login page.

Ok, makes sense. Thanks!

Ok, thanks HandySolo. So, just to make sure I understand this…my posts were saved b/c I still had the MySQL database intact. Is that right?

If that’s the case, then I never have to worry about overwriting the wp-config file…as long as I still have the MySQL database intact, then all my posts (and theme styles) will be saved.

Yes?

Never mind. I solved the problem. (It just nearly gave me heart failure for the past 10 minutes, though!) There were 2 problems with my edits to the wp-config.php file…

1.) I had the wrong password. As soon as I changed the password, and reuploaded the config file, I saw a different error message (about the name of the database).

2.) On my host, the name of the database is username_dbname. Not “dbname”. WordPress suggested that this might be the problem. Thank God for clear error messages!

Problem solved. So happy now! Any idea why WordPress saved my posts–even though the config file had been overwritten? I’m very glad WP saved my posts, but I don’t understand why it did so.

Hi HandySolo. No, my original wp-config.php is not still inside my WP directory. I re-uploaded a new set of files, and deleted the old set, and I guess I inadvertently deleted the wp-config.php file. Ouch.

When I log into Cpanel, I have a “MySQL databases” option. I’ve got “username_wrdp1.” Am I correct in assuming that “username” is my username and “wrdp1” is the database name?

Assuming this, I opened up the wp-config.php file and inserted my password, username, and database name and uploaded the new wp-config.php file. I’m still seeing the same error message and cannot access my domain. What now? Why didn’t that work?

I’ve got a “Repair Database” option under MySQL. If I click “Repair” will that solve the problem, or will that make matters worse?

FruitFly, thanks so much. Awesome response. I appreciate it. I agree with you; it would be better not to modify the Javascript file for the reasons you mentioned. I’ll make the change via CSS.

However, looking at my custom.css file, I have the following syntax for all items in the file. Items are either…

.custom #wrapper (then the specified attributes)
.custom #sidebar (specified attributes)
.custom #commentform (specified attributes)

OR

I’ve got one tag that’s defined as body.custom (then the attributes).

So, following the same pattern as the body.custom tag, I added the following code…

p.custom
{
padding-bottom: 25px;
}

I hope this works. I’ll post the results in a couple of minutes.

Thanks again.

Thanks Denis. Unfortunately, I only understand part of your answer. You wrote, “Terms2search and terms2tags use Yahoo’s term extraction api and returns your posts key terms as search queries and tags.” I understand the part about search queries and tags, but you lost me when you mentioned “term extraction api.”

Can you show me a site that uses terms2tags and terms2search, so I can better understand how it works? You lost me on the whole “extraction api” thing.

Thanks.

When you save the .htaccess file in Notepad, make sure you select “All Files” instead of “Text Files.” You’re experiencing a problem with the .htaccess file, b/c it’s not named .htaccess. Instead, you’ve named it “.htaccess.txt” Get rid of the .txt extension and your problem will be solved.

Awesome plugin. Thanks, SyncMaster. That did the trick. Problem solved.

Awesome. That did the trick. No more syntax errors. From now on, I’ll be sure to use the ?> and <?php tags when embedding HTML inside a PHP file. Thanks.

Hi Denis-

I inserted the code into my sidebar-ext.php file, and I got a syntax error that showed up on my site. Here’s the code I inserted into the sidebar-ext.php file…

<h2> Random Quote </h2>
//Random Quotes Plugin

if ( function_exists (‘wp_quotes_random’ ) )
wp_quotes_random();

Again, I’m just trying to get a “Heading” formatted just like the “Categories” heading and the “Pages” heading. Why am I getting a syntax error? It doesn’t like the < > tags, apparently. Can I use HTML syntax within a PHP file?