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After investigating further, changing the text color for this style applies correctly to any text that is typed into the text box (in Chrome, Firefox, and IE). However, the word “Search” that appears in the search box before you type anything is the specified color only in Firefox. In Chrome it remains the default twentyeleven theme grey. In IE the word “Search” fails to appear at all. It’s not really too big a deal, so I’m wondering if I might just have to live with this, but it is a little perplexing. Any ideas on whether there might be a fix?

Thanks alchymyth. I only just started using Firebug today and was having some trouble with it, but thanks to your suggestion I’ve persevered and figured out how to use it now. And the style you noted was indeed the culprit. However, while changing this style works to change the border and text color in Firefox, for some reason only the border changes in Chrome, while the text color remains grey. On checking IE the text (“Search”) doesn’t appear at all for some reason.

Cleverdot.com said, “This was due to a mod_security rule, we have disabled it.”

Thanks for all your help!

Whoah – someone at cleverdot.com just fixed the problem! I’ll try to find out what they did.

Or another thing I was thinking of trying was reinstalling one last time, but this time using Softaculous rather than doing a manual install. Or would this be like trying to kill a fly with a missile (and with no real guarantee of it fixing my problem)?

It looks like all folders have a permission of 0755. Should I change all the folders to 0700 or just the js folders? And how do I do this? – I’m using FileZilla for my FTP client. (Sorry if these are very naive questions – I’m quite a bit out of my depth here.)

I forgot to say my source of WordPress was directly from www.remarpro.com.

Normally I use a Mac but I’m having to use a Windows computer just now and I’m embarrassed to admit that I don’t know quickly how to create a screenshot to upload. However, these are the errors that appeared in the console when I clicked on Add New Post and then tried clicking on the HTML tab:

GET https://kusikawsay.org/wp/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=1&load=admin-bar,hoverIntent,common,jquery-color,schedule,wp-ajax-response,autosave,suggest,wp-lists,jquery-ui-core,jquery-ui-widget,jquery-ui-mouse,jquery-ui-sortable,postbox,post,thickbox,media-upload,word-count,editor,quicktags,jquery-ui-resizable,jquery-ui-draggable,jquery-ui-button,jquery-ui-position,jquery-ui-dialog,wpdialogs,wplink,wpdialogs-popup,wp-fullscreen&ver=3.4.2 406 (Not Acceptable) post-new.php:593
Uncaught ReferenceError: fullscreen is not defined wp-tinymce.php:27
Uncaught ReferenceError: switchEditors is not defined post-new.php:231

Thanks again for the quick advice. I looked at everything you suggested:

– The same thing is happening in Chrome, Firefox, and IE.

– My hosting does not seem to be adding a header or footer to the page.

– I installed WordPress manually rather than through the hosting cPanel.

– I just rooted around my cPanel but could not figure out the PHP version. I can try contacting the host (cleverdot.com) to find out.

A few more things I’ve noticed:

– The fly-out menus on the dashboard don’t work consistently. When I first log in they don’t fly out at all. If I click one of the main menu items then the sub-menu items appear below as expected and the fly-out menus all start to work. However, if I then try something like adding a new page, the fly-out menus stop working again.

– The Screen Options and Help links in the top right of each page don’t work.

– Clicking on Visual or HTML on a Post or Page screen doesn’t do anything.

It’s all kind of messed up.

Thanks for the suggestions. Initially I did activate a custom theme (but did not install any plugins). However, I’ve reinstalled WordPress since then to see if that might fix my problem. Now I have (as far as I’m aware) a clean, untouched copy with just the Twenty Eleven theme (and still no plugins).