onocrotalus

What are the specific issues? If it’s just the errors generated on your homepage, it looks like you just need to close the final tag in the footer.php – i.e. change from

</div><!-- end id:footer -->

to..

</div><!-- end id:footer -->

There are lots of plugins which help you place AdSense code in the posts area. Do a search on https://wp-plugins.net or see the Codex list.

Your styling for “searchdiv” is incorrect CSS code; it should be in the form

#searchdiv { border: 1px solid #000; }

or whatever colour, line thinkness, etc. Also, “searchdiv” wraps the whole of the search area in the sidebar, as the HTML of your page shows:

<div id="searchdiv">
<ul>
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="/index.php">
<li><h2>Search</h2></li>
<div>
<input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="15" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</div>
</form>
</ul>
</div>

The id of the search box itself is “s”. So if you add a style for “s” in your CSS file, you will be able change its appearance, e.g.

#s { border: 1px solid #000; }

See these CSS resources from the codex for more info.

See the Codex: Creating a Static Font Page.

Are you trying to get the archive lists to appear in the page area? If so, see threads here or here.

After a LOT of headscratching, I can now get my proper WP 404 page to show when it should. I made a copy of the root index.php file…

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

…called it 404.php, and left it in root. This meant that when I typed in https://www.onocrotalus.com/404.php the WP 404 page actually appeared – before, it just loaded the index page.

Then I added a line at the top of my .htaccess file:

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

Trying /index.php?error=404 as the ErrorDocument location didn’t work; a non-existent address loaded the index page. I don’t quite understand why this solution works – it mostly got to it by elimination and luck. If anyone with more knowledge can see a potential problem with this method – or understands what’s going on here and why it was necessary – I’d be interested to know.

The content area is blank white for all the video clips pages on that site; I’m running Ubuntu Linux and video playback is certainly sketchy, but videos haven’t been completely missing before. I’ve posted a screenshot.

They API key doesn’t get emailed to you – you need to log into your wordpress.com account and get it. Read the Codex instructions for setting up Akismet.

You can get the WP Database Backup plugin here. It can email you a backup of all your wp tables. Not sure about the best way to transfer them to new WP install though – maybe through phpmyadmin or equivalent.

Perhaps better – you could investigate transferring the posts into the new install by importing from the old site’s RSS feed. Feedwordpress looks like it might help manipulate categories as you import the feed, but I’ve never used it.

Try fixing the validation errors, as they can often be the source of layout problems.

Features like links lists, blogroll etc. are called by template tags placed in sidebar.php. So to add a list of your links in the category Blogroll, you might insert <?php wp_get_linksbyname('Blogroll') ?> where you want the list to appear in sidebar.php.

Plugins might be more suitable for the recent comments and recent posts features. The Recent Comments plugin is fairly popular, or you could search for alternatives at https://wp-plugins.net.

Confirmed doesn’t appear on FF2.0; this might be connected with the 152 validation errors on the page.

People can’t help much unless you post a link to the site you’re talking about. Check that the theme folder of the theme you’re using is a top-level folder in wp-content/themes, and that the main stylesheet is called style.css.

No – see here.

That line doesn’t seem to be causing the page’s errors any more.