sassy007

haha.

Thanks for your help, vkaryl and moshu.

Hopefully I won’t be back with trouble any time soon. ??

Ok weird.

It stopped working and then started working again.

Categories are working now as are monthly archives.

So weird!

awww no giving up!
Sad.

and my monthly archives still aren’t working, either. drat.

Oh my gosh I think I fixed it!

I pasted the info at the bottom of the permalinks page into my .htaccess file and I think that did the trick…
I can see my comments pages now…
Did I do it right?

I installed WP and set up permalinks, but I guess I’m still not very WP savvy.

My categories links still aren’t working, though – any tips for that?

This is the last I heard from my webhost:

“I checked your wordpress admin panel. I cannot find anything on the server that would be affecting this. I am not sure what permissions wordpress requires, or what files it uses when loading the comments page. I noticed you get this message also when looking at archived posts, so you may be missing whatever file it needs. Unfortunately we can’t provide further support for third-party applications, so I suggest either making a backup of your database and trying a fresh install, or checking the wordpress support forums. Let us know if there is anything we can do to help.

Thanks,
R***”

The only thing I can think about is that I changed my hotlinking protection to allow a site to hotlink to me – that’s it.

I’ll definitely let you know when I hear back – thanks for your help!

and, changing the hotlinking protection affects the .htaccess file. hmm.

Ok I just replied to them AGAIN asking if anything was upgraded.

Unfortunately I have no idea how to do anything that you said.

I’m an incompetent wordpress user. :/

hmm… none of my “categories” are working, either – I didn’t do anything, I swear!