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Cheers, thanks for that. Saves me messing up my sidebar!

bump

Thanks very much for your responses! I really appreciate it.
Cheers

that’s all i need. thanks, you’ve been most helpful.

id like to learn how to fix it myself, that’s what I’m here for.

I followed the links and ended up where I’d started:
https://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/

Any other suggestions?

Thanks! I feel like an idiot. Such a simple thing! Based on this, I don’t think I’m ready to start messing with the plugins!

One other thing. With my site, I only want visitors to be able to view the content and leave comments if they’d like. Is this the default for wordpress? I’ve been reading up on file permissions etc and think I’m confused (the 664 775 thing got me).

Post closed – problem solved

Here’s a message (extract I received from the provider). Does it sound reasonable?:

Please note that your account currently does not have MySQL support.
You can install MySQL via my.kangaweb.com>>General Settings>>Install
a MySQL database.

The price for MySQL would be as follows:
$33.00(AUD) setup, $3.30(AUD) per month.