davidwilbourn

Problem solved.

… did some investigation on this and realized that the problem is 2 things:
– Changing the Sunday or Weekday font size for the theme changes the height of the cell top bar
– Sundays from the previous month are displayed with weekday height while weekdays from the next month are displayed with Sunday height

Solved!

Dumb beginner’s mistake: I had set the Access Host for the external database in DirectAdmin to my PC but had forgotten to do that for the WP database. Once I added that I had access to the WP database.

Sorry for having wasted anyone’s time. At least it might help the next newbie!

Catacaustic,
I thought it was the wrong user/password as well, but I can connect ok. The error only occurs when I execute an SQL statement. If I change the password or user to something obviously wrong I get the ‘access denied’ error immediately I try to open the connection so I think it has to be something different.

Rajan,
I can already access the non-WP tables, it’s the WP tables I can’t access from the external program.