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I did not catch the theme development page! I will check that out, also the tutorial may be good, it is nice to see how I can use features that underscores that others don’t have, like hooks (I understand bones and some other popular ones don’t use that).
I know I can just google it when I know it is what I want but sometimes that’s the problem, I don’t. One example was trying to have a page where the user puts his content not on one spot, but in several spots all throughout the template, I read all of the page codex, and the page template codex, but come to find out what (I think) I needed was Custom Fields, had my friend not told me that I would have not known what it was called.
I think my problem is I thought with the videos I could just dive in and be done in no time. I have a history in being a Drupal admin so the subtle nuances are jarring for me. I think that themeshapers tutorial will be a great start and I will just read through that and then start with a fresh copy of underscores.
A quick question though, as underscores gets updates, would my theme have an update available where it would make changes to some of its core or do you just have that version when it is downloaded? I am not using underscores as a parent theme because everything I read says not to… so I am guessing not.

Mariko, do I understand you are from 1&1? If so that would be great, I have had horrible service with some techs there but switching domains and emails attached to the domain to another company can be a pain and I don’t want to risk the downtime for my client. I guess I was just frustrated by that response because re-sizing a 4000×3000 image to 1600×1200 or whatever it changes to. My client really has no interest in resizing photos (as easy as it may be) so it is nice wordpress can do that for him.
And Mike, thanks for the URL links, I know I can just google myself, but I am really afraid of finding the wrong plugin that creates vulnerabilities, asking more experienced people such as yourself gives me more confidence it is a safe plugin.
I will start a trial with dreamhost to see if they are a valid alternative. I did see their dreampress option but don’t know if automatic back ups and automatically updated core is worth twice the price since there are plugins can do that anyway. Also I plan to have other content hosted there. I will contact their support to get those questions answered.

Thanks for the heads up about godaddy, my friend says he has had heard nothing bad about them and loves them, but when googling best website a couple said they were the worst. I never heard much about dreamhost before but some sites said they were the best, so I guess… the trouble is whenever you type “best [anything}” on the web you run into sponsored content where they are paid to put a certain one at top and then max out the SEO.

With dreamhost they give you a 90 day money back guarantee. I plan to open an account, install a test on whatever free sub domain they give me, and then see if a 4-8 meg image works.

What bugs me is it was set at 8 MB before I call them, then their support said bump it to 64 MB, then they tell me their servers can’t handle more than 2 MB photos, I am frustrated by 1and1’s service.

This tech has a great point, when my client loads the pages on the site, we don’t want them to be 4900×2880, he said it fails in scaling down, what does it scale down to? Is there a good plugin that would create smaller versions still, like one with max width of 400px and one with max width of 900px or something? I know that google had one that was discontinued that many people warned me to stay away from as it injects several vulnerabilities, that is my biggest concern.

I got an e-mail back from my hosting:
“The issue seems to be related to the resolution of the images. The memory runs out before the image attachment metadata is generated and saved. This happens during the crop of the image to smaller sizes. Every pixel that needs to be generated takes memory, and when the memory runs out the process breaks and the thumbnail is not generated. The only solution to this error is to optimize the images for web by lowering their resolution and size and then perform the upload. The resolution on those images is very big, some of them have a resolution of 4900×2880, which is not recommended for web. This is a know issue with WordPress downloading big image files, if the memory is not enough the thumbnail is not generated.”
Apparently 1&1 shared servers don’t allow enough memory to properly upload the file. Guess it means I will have to try an alternative host and wish for better luck. I believe both dreamhost and godaddy have money back guarantees, so I will check them out.

New development; we did put in the php.ini file to wp_admin that contained
memory_limit = 64M;
upload_max_filesize = 64M;
post_max_size = 64M;
I tried to upload a 3 MB jpg file and it failed, but then I tried to upload a 24 MB BMP file and that worked, so I am wondering if that Imagemagik that you (Mike) mentioned does something to scale down jpg files or create thumbnails if they are at a certain resolution and that is the part that is messing up.
I need to figure out what to tell my host.
Also, I just tried a 16 mb png and that failed too.
But the fact that a 24 MB file can upload tells me it is not a file upload capacity issue.

I am not sure about imagemagik, I looked it up some, does that come native with wordpress? Good idea about the host, I was actually e-mailing them as I got this message from you, it is possible I was set to an old version of PHP or something. It didn’t tell me what it was currently set to but I changed to 5.6 and have to wait an unknown period of time for that to kick in.
Would you know, if I installed this version of wordpress while on an old version of php, would I have any issues down the road or if I haven’t gotten errors yet I am safe or would installing it on an old version of wordpress be causing part of this?
Shawn

I think I found the issue, in that directory listing I sent I think I was supposed to have allowoveride set to all.
It shows in this post.
https://www.alwaysgetbetter.com/blog/2008/04/21/apache-enabling-mod_rewrite-on-windows-2003-server/
I say that because I HATE when I see forum posts that match my issue exactly and there is no resolution. For some strange reason though when I hover over my sites along the top it does not show my new entry in the drop down. I’ve wiped wordpress and created the network so many times it will just take me a minute and I will see if that fixes it, honestly if it doesn’t it is not the end of the world and I will work around it.
Shawn

I may have mistyped that, I don’t think I can see the subsites, I hover over “My Sites” and I don’t see the sites I created; just “network admin” and the original site I had first created. I can go into the dashboard for the network admin as well as the dashboard for my original site
The reason I suspect mod-rewrite is I go to where I have the subfolders in /blogs and there is nothing created. I created a few tests and in my sites I see a link for /blogs/test but it doesn’t work.
As far as permalinks, I am not sure if that is working correctly. Is there a way to test it.
Is pretty permalinks the same as “Post Name” so it looks like this?
https://testsite.com/blogs/blog/sample-post/
If so then no, it was set with default, which was the p=123. I changed it to Post Name now and tried it again but no luck
Also, if mod_rewrite isn’t working after I do get it to work would I need to create a new wordpress and enable the network functionality or would it work automatically? My concern is there may be something that wordpress tried to do when creating the networks that didn’t happen without mod_rewrite. Of course if any of you have suggestions outside of mod_rewrite I am totally up for hearing them.
UPDATE: I switched to the “Post Name” permalinks and now the links don’t work, so no, pretty permalinks are not working. It shows the entry on the main page but when I click on the hyperlink it doesn’t exist. I go out to the folder and those directories do not exist.

I should also note that if I click on sites and then all sites on the left panel of the dashboard I see the sites I created but if I go to visit then it doesn’t work. But along the top panel on “my sites” I don’t see all the subsites I made, just the main site. Not sure if that information helps…
This wordpress was previously empty and I did blow away the database and reinstall wordpress to try and install it again but no luck.
Any help you can provide would be wonderful, thank you!