jerryjm

As xhhn said. You need to login to the Yahoo control panel and look for something about databases. If you see phpMyAdmin, that will work.

Poke through the WordPress documentation and find what choices you need to make when oyu to do your backup. There will be options such as (Add) Drop Table, Full Inserts, etc.

Follow these instructions and will should have a complete backup, although I would also grab a copy of all the template files, as I am not positive they get included.

Once you download the backup, uncompress it and check in a good text editor. Search it for something like a user name where that user has added an image and see if you can locate an embedded binary, which will be a bunch of gibberish in yout text editor.

By the way, I can add https://www.coolcats.com/Nashville-Web-Designers-Blog//wp-rss.php to my YAHOO home page without error.

You log into your blog like this:
https://address.com/wp-admin/

Then you write.

This is not a solution, but are you aware that your page title is a link to the home page which has the sidebar?

Response to my post above: My WordPress blog is in a subfolder at https://coolcats.com/Nashville-Web-Designers-Blog/.

Google Sitemap Generator took all of three minutes to set up and created sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz in the subfolder, and even notified Google, Ask, YAHOO! and my mom (just kidding) of the new sitemap.

This is way cool, thanks for this plugin!

What if I already have a sitemap.xml with over 100 pages? Will this plugin respect and add to it? Thanks.

It’s no problem using FTP to edit, I live in UltraEdit most of the time. Thanks for the tip and have a great day.

Thanks for the reply, Michael. If such a thing could exist, and you likely have an idea of whether it is possible, it sure would cut down on problems people are having. I had no idea I could bring my site down just by following the prompt to make that folder writeable.

I should add that I realize messing with permissions is a big deal and the support I’m seeing on these forums is remarkable. I am a big user of Usenet and the WP forums are equal to or better than the best news groups I hang out in. Thank you.

Thanks for the reply.
* wp-content is 755

* wp-content/themes/default is NOW 755 and that got my WordPress back up, thank you!!!

* I see you are a moderator, so correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe I need all the files in
wp-content/themes/default to be 666 so I can edit them in the admin control panel.

Thanks again! ??

After mucking with permissions in wp-content, I now see that when I am in admin and go to the Theme Editor, I see this:

Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in /xxx/public_html/Nashville-Web-Designers-Blog/wp-includes/theme.php on line 298

WP thinks there are no themes available.

Yep, thanks; I just did it again to be certain.

Hy, thank you, Michael, I didn’t see your reply before I posted. Thank you!

Never mind, I am a friggin’ genius. ?? Here’s what I added to the sidebar if anyone needs it.

<!– begin new login –>
<?php

global $user_identity;
get_currentuserinfo();

if ($user_identity == ”) {
echo(‘Welcome Guest, why not register or login to post comments’);
} else {
echo(‘Welcome <b>’ . $user_identity . ‘</b>’);
}

?>

<!– end new login –>