requiemz

Thanks! You answered my question I ddint realize that the thumbnail grid was the native gallery type. That did the trick. I wonder why slideshow is there even though I dont have any gallery plugin activated.

Still no joy. I cant get the page content to show up. I dont understand whats going on here.

OK thats what I thought regarding the installation. Now, initially I did try to do everything without the help of a plugin. However, I could never get it to work right, so i though I may be doing something wrong. That’s when I decided to use a plugin.

So I followed your instructions which is basically what I have been doing several times however, the site still refuses to load right. Now the interesting thing was that for a while I was getting the cannot connect to database error message. So I checked and rechecked the wp-config.php settings and they were set to the correct database.

Now I do have a couple plugins that a suspect may be causing some issues like wp-security, but I have disabled them in the plugins folder. The other interesting thing is that if I set the permalink structure to exactly the way my live site is set I get a 404 not found message, however if I set it to the default post ID setting I at least get a blank page. I will trying again removing all the content, and following your instructions.

I know this may sound like a silly question, but do I need to have wordpress installed first?

Yeah all the menus mirror that of the live site so its not that. Any other suggestions?

Is that just in the menu settings or should I check another place as well?