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For your site title: Under Options->General you’ll have ‘Weblog Title’. Whatever is in that box is displayed as bloginfo(‘name’). Try adding ‘Living In Stereo’ and it should show in the browser bar.

For individual page titles: The wp_title() tag would normally display the name of your page but the browser bar doesn’t support images.

A while ago Podz had people working together to turn the Codex into .pdf files. And that was mostly done but I’m not sure when it was last updated. You can find it here. https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/docs/

You might want to create a second install on your server to test out the new version & plugins. Once you’re confident everything works you can upgrade your production site.

Podz has a good guide to installing XAMPP if you want to test using a local copy of WordPress.

https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

I said get rid of all words, phrases, etc., that could identify wp installation. That’s it.

That’s it? Fair enough, but you’ve just asked for the entire WP engine to be rewritten. Not to mention requiring everyone to have custom themes as ones like Kubrick, and the dozens based upon it, can be easily identified.

We also need to deal with the substantial performance hit that would be created when looking up every single random directory and file. And, as has been mentioned, support becomes nearly impossible.

Speaking of security, how was your WP hacked? An earlier version with a known vulnerability? Something newer (which you’ve reported to [email protected])?

You still need to address Podz’ concerns. Filenames are only one way to detect an installation.

You’ve got a lot of general questions on WP and blogging so I’ll just direct you to the Codex, WP’s online documentation. There’s all kinds of information there on blogging, WP features and how to create a ‘theme’.

It’s a lot to take in so once you’re familiar with the basics come back and we’ll fill in the gaps.

Welcome to WordPress!

I was able to just cut and paste it into the sidebar using the default theme. A copy of the sidebar.php file is here: https://pastebin.com/585923 (lines 14-31)

You will want to change (or remove) the stat links since they all point into your admin section.

What about future dating your posts? Change the post time to your future date, set the post to publish and you’ll be good to go.

Wow, I used the word ‘comments’ five times in 3 sentences. Writing teachers everywhere are spinning in rage. Let me know if it needs to be clearer. ??

If the link to your comments ends in #comments then a small tweak to the above will work. At the top of your comment form put comments as the ID on an element. For instance, <div id="comments">

I don’t use the WP uploader so I’m just guessing here but 2.0 includes a new template file called ‘attachment.php’. I’m pretty sure that’s the file that’s used to display attached images, pdfs, audio, etc. If your theme doesn’t have that file then I believe it defaults back to single.php.

If that’s right you should be able to make a copy of single.php and rename it attachment.php. Then just mess around with that file and see if the changes show up when viewing your pdf page.

oh, you might want to make your links a little darker. I didn’t actually see the link to the .pdf, I had to search for it. ??

Not sure what exactly you’re looking for but its probably one of these. To display how many comments exist for a post (for instance on your index page) use this:

<?php comments_popup_link('No Comments ', '1 Comment ', '% Comments '); ?>

To display comments and the comment form on an individual posts page you need to add this:

<?php comments_template(); ?>

If that’s not enough help look through index.php and single.php in the default theme to see how it’s done there.

Wasn’t there a plugin for firefox that made form fields yellow? I seem to remember having one installed a long time ago. Check and see what extensions you’re running because I don’t get the yellow highlight on any of your fields.

The searchbox style is definitely css related. If you look in your style.css you’ll see a section for your searchbox.

You can use the ! mark in PHP to evaluate a negative.

<?php if (!is_page()) { echo "not a page"; } ?>

Yup, kinda ??

The code you would need has to do two things. 1) Query the database for a list of all your categories and then 2) loop through that list and for each category do another query to get and display the two most recent posts.

Whether it’s difficult or not really depends upon how good you can code PHP. Ideally you’d want to create this as a plugin so you could just drop a quick get_recent_posts_from_categories() function in your sidebar.