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Thank you alchymyth!

This is great, govpatel. This is exactly what I’m looking for, changing the large white area where posts are to another color. I hesitate to ask this rudimentary question, but what is the best way to make a child theme? Just copy the existing style.css and upload it to the same location? I mean, there’s not a way to make a child theme from within the WP interface, is there?

Hi folks — In case this helps anyone, in my blog where the BDPrss plug gave me “cheatin’ uh?” instead of the config page, I went back into my users area where I saw myself as admin, and then I checked my admin user id and updated myself wityh admin privileges, even though I already had them, I assume, since I created the blog. Now, thankfully, I get the configuration page for the plug instead of “cheatin’ eh?”

I got the same thing on a fresh install of 2.1 with me as admin. Oddly though, another blog with a fresh install worked. Both are in the same main hosting account, though I don’t know if that’s a factor. I’ll compare the plugs in the two sites to see if that sheds any light, and if so, will report back.

Just in case my minor progress helps. In Safari, I still have nothing, not eve3n quicktaqs. In Firefox I had quicktags but no rich text editor. However, when I called up a stored draft, the rich text editor miraculously opened. I’m glad, because the miles of entries in the javascriipt console were intimidating to me. Anyway, if you have a draft and you’re working with Firefox, give it a whirl. Sadly, it didn’t work for me in Safari.

Update — I gave it one more try, this time with success. I did another clean install, but first I deleted the first two databases that didn’t work and created a third. Other procedures were the same, and now it seems to work. At least I have a dashboard (haven’t gotten into plugins yet.) From this I ‘m guessing that some database servers at godaddy work with wordpress and some don’t.

Just adding to those reporting godaddy probs with wordpress. No solutions yet. In case it helps others troubleshooting, here’s what it is.

After install I get this error trying activate the blog:
“There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started. Need more help? We got it. You can create a wp-config.php file through a web interface, but this doesn’t work for all server setups. The safest way is to manually create the file.”

-Linux economy package
modified config.php to read correctly (I believe)
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘niceguy’);
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘niceguy’);
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘…….’);
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘mysq17.secureserver.net’);

Tried stangill’s mod to wp-settings but no change

Tried deleting and reinstalling using ws-ftp instead of dreamweaver or control panel — no change

Called tech support; they said they weren’t trained to help

tried creating a new database — no change

I’m out of ideas.

Maybe our problems are related, not that I have an answer. I just did the upgrade to the best of my ability and now all of my posts are gone. The front page is up and the sidebar with categories and archives, but they all bring up “not found.” Any help is appreciated.

Drat — I can’t figure it out. My title in the admin panel is left blank because I put it in the image file. Can someone tell me how to add a title to rss2.php in these circumstances. I’m very grateful if you can keep it basic so I can work with it in my RSM (really simple mind.)

I got a blank dashboard, too. I thought it was related to the upgrade I just got around to, but apparently not. (I reverted from the upgrade and still no dashboard.) I’m not on any of the hosts mentioned in this thread, incidentally.

jeremycherfas, pplproof et al. That did it! Thank you so much! I really appreciate the help.

pplproof — In my style.css lines 320 to 360 of the default 1.5 theme I see code that to my untrained eye looks as if it’s intended to do what you described — img. alignright has margin settings of 0 0 2px 7px, left has 0 7px 2px 0. there’s also a centered setting and one for float right and float left. So I’m guessing that my problem is that I just need to figure out how to insert images in my posts that take advantage of this CSS? There’s also this descriptive bit in the CSS:
Using ‘class=”alignright”‘ on an image will (who would’ve
thought?!) align the image to the right. And using ‘class=”centered’,
will of course center the image. This is much better than using
align=”center”, being much more futureproof (and valid) *

I have the feeling all the information is in front of me. I just don’t know my way around tags and slashes well enough to make it happen. Thanks again for your help.

Allotherplaces — I’m too short on blogskills to have come up with a way for WP to do the work. I just kept a copy of the general link-to -picture code handy in a notepad file and then I inserted an image in the post with wp. I then swapped the image link into the notepad file and copied that whole clump back in the post, replacing blob of code WP originally inserted for the image. It was much simpler than I just described.
Pplproof, thanks so much for that detailed and clear description. Heaven help me, I might be learning. I think I almost understand it. We are talking about the style.css doc in the default themes folder, correct?