shiningphoton

I had a problematic transfer from blogger to WordPress and had to fix a lot of bugs. I have the exact same problem you describe. When i select a theme, the theme changes but the dashboard always indicates the default theme as active. it’s annoying but i havent had any problems with it.

i also assume it’s an option in the options db that need to fix..

oh hmm i did a text search for the wp_tag_cloud function but couldn’t find it. i’ll check that file.

no other noticeable tag problems. I see a tag cloud when i go to the tag settings page and all 41 are listed appropriately.

Ive tried deactivating all plugins, reinstalling my theme, using default theme. i just can’t figure it out.

I recently did an import of my blog from another host and had some issues which i have been tracking down and fixing. This is one of the last ones i have yet to fix.

hmm good point. i just checked another site (rad-boy.com) which is using the exact same theme which shows this:

<div id="sidebar-bottom">
<h3>Tag Cloud</h3>
<a href='https://rad-boy.com/tag/rad-boycom/' class='tag-link-12' title='1 topic' rel="tag" style='font-size: 8pt;'>rad-boy.com</a>

<a href='https://rad-boy.com/tag/us/' class='tag-link-8' title='1 topic' rel="tag" style='font-size: 8pt;'>US</a>
 </div>

Both sites have the exact same code being called:

<div id="sidebar-bottom">
<?php 	/* Widgetized sidebar, if you have the plugin installed. */ 					if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar(4) ) : ?>
<h3><?php _e('Tag Cloud','arthemia');?></h3>
<?php wp_tag_cloud(''); ?>
<?php endif; ?> </div>

So it looks like something is wrong with the wp_tag_cloud() function itself?

is there a way for me to see what, if any, error messages are generaated by the wordpress code? i dont see any error log file anywhere

i was using simple tags plugin for the tag cloud.. but then when that wasn’t working, i took out all the plugins and just tried the default tag cloud which didn’t work. i am so frustrated!

Wow didn’t know you could check for errors like that.

well i went through all of them to figure out where the errors were.

Most of them aer related to ampersand symbols not encoded correctly, or code related to Amazon affiliate links or statcounter.

after removing the culprit code, it didn’t fix the problem. i didn’t bother fixing the ampersand issues as there were too many and it seems like they are harmless.

Thanks guys.

I just figured out how to set up a WordPress site using my local computer as host so I am in the midst of migrating my blogger website to WordPress.

Once that’s done, I’ll transfer the domain name to a different host, redirect DNS to the new site.

That should work

So you’re saying it’s easier for me register a temporary garbage domain name on which i can duplicate my site to my liking and then just transfer over the domain name?

then my temporary domaian just never gets used? It seems like a waste of a domain name? i suppose its really best way for me to not deal with any downtime?