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Also the sub menus don’t reveal often under their respective top menus – which is strange

Managed to get the site working again by copying a new comment.php from my local machine. This file looked nothing like the non working one on the site.
Which leads me to the crux of what I was trying to do – Turn all comments off permanently. How do I do this – I am using the Envisioned Theme?

what does – require_once( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/admin.php’ ); actually mean?

not using that plug-in. I put the comment.php back in the /wp-includes directory and has the correct r/w permissions. I Do not understad why I am getting this error message since I have done nothing but move the file out of the /wp-includes dir and then moved it back in. I also moved the comment-template.php and moved it back to the /wp-includes dir. Just moved – no modifying!

site is https://www.vickiyenphoto.com.au/carlpick65new/ but is currently passworded – [ password redacted, if you need support please open up the site ]

Getting this message after removing comment.php from wp-includes upon advice saying to remove it to stop comments. Have repaced comment.php but now getting this error.
Warning: require_once(/home/vickiyen/public_html/carlpick65new/wp-includes/admin.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/vickiyen/public_html/carlpick65new/wp-includes/comment.php on line 10

cannot log into site – after moving it and after replacing comment.php.
Have made NO changes to this file at all.

Yes the new instant WP install has thmes working properly. It asks me to install a new version of WP (3.5.1). Is this worth doing? It says compatibility is unknown with this 2.5.6 version of instant WP. What is the difference between instant WP and the ‘regular’ version?
Still doesn’t resolve my earlier problem but now I can get on with some websites.

Thank you Seamus I have downloaded instant WP and your PDF. The PDF downloaded before the WP finished downloading. I shall install and try it. Let you know if it solves this theme problem.

I have installed a few more themes and have discovered a few that seem to work – such as “Customizr” , “Aapna” seems to show the header image but not the left hand side image. “Snapshot” displays the top image only. In fact many themes just display the top image/part only. Now I’m really confused.

I have been unzipping into the themes folder and then activating them through word press. Is there an alternative way?
I have no plugins installed.
Have looked at all wordpress support issues which seemed to suggest similiar problems but were more about problems uploading themes to a site.
Read about one person who seemed to say that themes would not be visible on a local installation only on an actual site which does not seem to make any sense. I presume many have intalled wp to a local machine to trial themes and start a local website. Have checked all permissions on folders. I did attempt initially to install wp manually but ran into conflicts with mysql and php installed through acquia-drupal so used Web Platform Installer. If nobody can offer insight into this problem I may have to attempt a manual install again.