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I gotta start paying more attention! Of course, I always wait to upgrade till I absolutely have to, so it will be a while… but it would be nice. Thanks IanD.

Can you log into the admin? Can you see your posts in there?

If so, it may be a plugin or the theme. Try disabling all plugins. If it works then, re-enable them one by one to figure out which one it is. If that’s not it, try switching to the default theme.

I know I’ve seen this issue come up before, but I can’t seem to find the thread. (Argh to the borked search! Google’s not much help either.) Anyone else remember it?

Which is a small feature that would be nice, actually. ??

I’m able to get to your site just fine, and can get to the login screen for wp-admin, using Firefox.

Maybe try clearing your cache? Sounds like it’s a problem on your computer, rather than on the server.

Or a temporary hiccup with your host.

I think – if I’m understanding you correctly – you’re simply wanting to link to other pages that aren’t WordPress Pages. To to that, you can add those links under Links, or you can manually add in links on your sidebar.php (hard coded).

If that’s not what you’re trying to do, can you explain a little better what it is?

A link to the site would help a lot, so we can see it in action. What do you mean by disappears? When you click the link are you taken to the correct destination?

I don’t know that I can solve the problem, but that should help someone get an idea of what’s happening.

WordPress is completely customizable. Take a look at the Codex section Blog Design and Layout for the documentation.

Best advice I can give you would be to search for a theme that’s relatively close to what you want to do, and then customize it. It’s a good way to jump in and learn WP. (Search for WordPress themes on Google, or browse through https://webdesignbook.net/themes/)

You can do the iframe bit, but I’ve never tried to do it. I know it’s possible, but I see a lot of people having problems with it too. ??

I believe if you update your spam karma plugin, it fixes this problem.

What do you mean you don’t want it sorted? Do you mean you want them to be in the order you entered them?

If so, you can do that by going to Links – Link Categories – then edit your link category, where you’ll see a choice for the sort order, and choose by ID. If you want it to be different every time, choose Random.

Or choose to sort any other way listed there… but they pretty much have to be sorted one way or another. ??

rexprice: Can you give us a link to the site you’re trying to modify? Are you trying to modify the default theme? It’s notoriously funky when modifying, you might be better off picking another theme you like and working with it.

jblow: Most 1.5 themes work on 2 and 2.01. I’m relatively sure the base themes referenced above wouldn’t have a problem.

Can’t think of one that really fits that off the top of my head, but there’s got to be one that would work on here:

https://webdesignbook.net/themes/

If not, find one that’s close and customize it to make it do what you want.

Aren’t there enough blogs with false rumors and speculation already though? ??

Are you using the same database each time? If so, you might want to think about deleting the one that’s there (assuming WP is the only thing using the DB, creating a new one, and installing to that new one.

Or if you’re comfortable in phpMyAdmin, drop all of the WP tables in the DB, and start over after wiping.

If it were me, I would take the step of blocking the whole range of IPs from accessing wp-comments-post.php at all (instructions in my earlier reply). Yes, you might lose a few other people, but if he’s that annoying, it might be worth it.

If this person already has your email address, then have your email address on the custom 403 page so that other folks can email you their comments.

If he doesn’t already have that, then maybe set up a Yahoo address just for that, then block his email from your account.

Depending on how awful the comments were, you could also report him to his ISP for harassment, though honestly, usually not much comes from that.

I’m not really sure what you mean – you wouldn’t be installing phpMyAdmin.

phpMyAdmin is not WordPress. It is a tool to manage databases that your host would have installed, and you should have access to it through whatever sort of control panel that Yahoo offers. I’m not familiar with Yahoo hosting, so I’m not sure how to tell you to get to it. (Or if they even give you access to it.)

Is there anyone who knows Yahoo hosting that can help?

The <?php wp_list_pages('title_li='); ?> tag will pull pages that you’ve created by going to Write – Write Page, but from what I can see, you haven’t created Pages, only posts.

If you have in fact created Pages, what are the ID numbers for your Pages? (To find this, go to Manage – Pages in your dashboard. You’ll see a list of any Pages you’ve created, and the ID numbers will be in the list.) I’ve run through 1 – 10, and the only IDs that have anything are 2 and 8, which are both posts.