kevin22

Ah found the answer. Hopefully it will help someone in the future.

When altering the database enter your user password and then to the left of that in a drop down box select MD5 and select. You should now be able to login.

Kevin

Anyone? Please!

So OK no takers on why the script doesn’t work; I’m still open to suggestions but maybe going down the widget road would be easier?

As mentioned above put a rotator type widget, or any widget for that matter, on a wordpress blog where you already have other standard info like: catagories, ad blocks, archives, contributors, that general type of stuff activate the widget and hey presto all your info has gone.

Can anyone tell me how you actually put a widget onto a wordpress blog without all the other info disappearing. I’m hearing that this is one of the drawbacks of wordpress widgets – I’m digging through past posts to see if I can find anything useful. Or maybe I’m just silly, any advice?

Kevin

Seem to be having the same problem see post One Problem – Two Questions.

As a matter of interest are we able to revert to an earlier version of WordPress, maybe that would help solve some of the problems – then update again when editing is done?

I’m an un-techi myself and I’ve asked some very basic questions here in the past and I’ve always got answers. Just try and pick an appropriate forum to ask the question. The ‘techie’ guys really are a helpful bunch ??

Kevin

Problem solved, many thanks

Kevin

I hear what you are saying Gangleri

The way this blog is set up is that all the links: sidebar, posts, etc are all set #333, now there is no difficulity in gooing to the style sheet and changing a:link, a:visited and a:hover, a:active to say 0000FF your standard link colour but if I do that every link changes, and really the outlay looks awful; what I want to be able to do is to make links within posts a different link colour so while the links to latest posts etc remain #333 I want to be able to make other links on a link by link basis 0000ff

Take a look at my blog to see what I mean

Kevin

You got it in one. Great answer, many thanks.

Kevin

Still lost is there any hope for me!!

Using Windows Explorer I’ve come up with the following path and I’ve tried various combinations of it with no result – any suggestions. Here’s the path:

(C:\Documents and Settings\Owner.KEVIN\Desktop\my-domain\wp-content\themes\branfordmagazine\my_mark_of_approval.php.

Proper domain name changed for security reasons. Any suggestions as to what I might try?

Kevin

In his book Sites That Soar (about setting up Branford Magazine) the author suggests removing the right column and replacing it with the right column from Mimbo, says there are no clashes and that Mimbo is easier to play around with

Hope this helps

Kevin

Think I’ve got it ??

In WordPress – settings – miscellaneous – store uploads in this folder for some reason or other wasn’t set at the default so when I changed it to ‘wp-content/uploads’ and that seemed to work for the post with the value set to ‘2008/11/trial-blue.gif’ but with the one where I had the full path ie. https://ww…….. it didn’t but when I brought it back to ‘2008/11/trial-blue.gif’ it also worked

Don’t know why. Personally I prefer putting in the full path as it helps me if I need to go back on it.

Anyway I hope this helps some other people out

Kevin

I’ve been doing a bit of Googling and came across this suggestion: ‘move (not copy) the index.php file from the main folder of the WordPress install to the root of your website and open up it in a text editor and change line four from
<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>

to

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require(‘./news/wp-blog-header.php’);
?>

or whatever your sub-directory name is: I’ve tried it went back to
https://www.mydomain.com/news/wp-admin/install.php but still get the same error message. Is this right? I’ve moved the file back into its original place until I find out a little more.

Kevin

I’m back again no joy with my ISP and they have updated their servers!

Here is the full story, only domain name and password changed. I’m attempting to install my WordPress Blog in a subdirectory called ‘news’ on my website https://www.mydomain.com the site is hosted by f2s. The sites login name is [email protected] and the password is ‘password.’ The password for the blog is passwordtwo.

The WordPress files were uploaded using Dreamweaver MX

Here is where I am at the moment. I’ve uploaded my blog into the subdirectory ‘news’ and this is the working part of my wp-config file:

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'db-f2s');    // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'abcdef_210081_1');     // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'password'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'db-f2s');    // 99% chance you won't need to change this value
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

?>

I’ve checked the above with f2s and they say it is correct.

When I go to https://www.mydomain.com/news/wp-admin/install.php and select enter I get the following message error from WordPress:

‘Can’t select database
We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the db-f2s database.
? Are you sure it exists?
? Does the user uworldw_210081_1 have permission to use the db-f2s database?
? On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_wordpress. Could that be the problem?’

When I rang the ISP helpline the guy on the phone told me that he wasn’t really up on databases and suggested I submit a ticket to customer support (appoligized that the database guy was off today – he did help sort another problem) he told me that the database define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘db-f2s’); // is a gernic name. Could that be what is wrong.

I can access the database admin area through ‘database tools’ in my members area using the following ‘abcdef_210081_1’ and password

One final bit of information. This particular site hosted a blog on its own some months back in the main root directory but from what I can see everything is clean

Hope someone can suggest what might be wrong.

Kevin

Sorry, back again.

I thought I had the problem beaten but went back today and discovered that, when viewing https://www.abcwritersnetwork.co.uk in IE, the display size appears much larger in a number of the posts. This seems more obvious is you look at the sidebar.

As jleuze suggested I went through all my old posts – at least those that appear on the first page and got rid of the rubbish code, everything seems clean now.

I’ve also checked for the phrase “endif” in page source and I seem to have got rid of them all

Again any suggestions and again many thanks for any help offered.

Kevin

Many thanks jleuze, think I have the problem sorted out now – lesson it doesn’t pay to take shortcuts

Kevin