DianeV

Did you copy your images over to the new server?

Interesting, mercime. Thanks.

Sort of …

Copy the folder that the theme is in and name it (the folder) something else. Then edit/upload your theme, and select it in the Appearances tab.

You’ll need to talk to your web host about this.

Normally, sites will load with and without the “www” — but that has to be set up on the server.

Oh, I see that the original poster has redirected the www to the non-www, so it’s working.

The idea is to copy whatever theme you wish, rename it, and then edit and upload that theme. That way you don’t run a chance of overwriting your edited theme when you upgrade.

Note: in the theme folder, there’s a style.css file. At the top of that file is information that will distinguish it from other themes in the Appearances tab of your WordPress admin area … just update that so that you can tell the difference.

True, what Ipstenu said.

Normally when FTPing files to a site, everything gets overwritten; however, WP has enough files and folders that sometimes something gets missed. Better to delete and upload.

Okay. See on your https://curtisamongfriends.com/home/about-2/ page where the “paragraphs” don’t have spaces below them? That’s because they’re not actually paragraphs.

Those are called “lists” … first, the bulleted list (the “paragraphs” with the dot to the left) and the numbered list (with the 1, 2 and 3 to the left).

Changing the style for the <p> tag (the paragraph tag) will not affect these, because they’re not paragraphs. You’ll need to change the styles for the lists:

<ul> is the "unordered" list ... the bullets

<ol> is the "ordered" list ... the numbers

If you’re going to be doing this yourself, you’d be best off if you learned a bit about Cascading Style Sheets (such as your brown.css), so that you’re not hampered each time by the next thing you don’t know. This can be a bit tricky, but I recommend https://htmldog.com … start with the CSS Beginner section.

Just a note, Curtisamongfriends — those are not paragraphs (made with the <p> tag, but bulleted lists, which are made with lists tags, as alchymyth mentioned.

The error message states what the problem is: “error in database connection”.

If the site works correctly sometimes, but occasionally there’s an “error in database connection”, then there’s a web host problem. Call your web host.

It would be best to ask whoever owns the images.

I’ve never seen such a message.

It seems to indicate that the database is missing the correct tables — which are set up in the database during the WP installation. But there has to be a database already. Did you set up a database before you installed WordPress?

Works fine for me.

That’s odd. How old is the blog? Google is not showing any pages from it.

Is there anything (any posts) in the database?

> how do I upload the files?

With an FTP program. Something like WS_FTP will do. However, from your description, I can’t tell what you’ve done. Is WP reinstalled? If so, you don’t need to upload anything.

> Also, it will not let me log in, i put in the correct password/ admin name and nothing. help?

Sounds like you either don’t have the right login information, or you changed something that is causing a problem. Without knowing more, it’s hard to guess.

You’d typically upload the files (not the database) with an FTP program.