stricklyspeaking

I’ll try that in the morning – I think I’m toast for the night. Thanks for the help and thanks for sharing about your dad. He sounds like quite an extraordinary man. Let’s hear it for all the C.O.B.’s of the world – they make it a far more interesting place ??

I just checked all of those areas. I’m on the default theme and don’t have any plugins that are activated and the permalinks are at the default – still no blog ??

Yep.

I never moved the blog. I took all of the original wordpress files and copied them all into my root folder before installing. The actual install file is in the admin folder and is accessed for the first time by going to yourdomainname.com/wp-admin which brings up the install.php and gives the password etc.

The screen capture for the database screen is at https://www.zillaweb.com and I it didn’t link above because it pulled in the period at the end of a sentence as a .com. – (haha – thought I was losing my mind when the link didn’t work but I could type in the url and it did). It looks like WordPress interacted with the database and populated it with some files, as far as I could tell.

Okay – I’m still trying to figure out the first part of your response about going to the options screen before moving files. I followed the directions online as closely as possible.

I’m not very familiar with databases and am still getting used to the control panel at dotster, so I took a screen capture of the database controls that I could get to – you can see it at https://www.zillaweb.com. Maybe you can see if that tells you anything? It looks like I have phpmyadmin access – I just don’t know what to do with it ??

I copied all of the files to my root folder. The wp install was in the wp-admin folder.

(aside from being crotchety – your dad must be scary smart)