william-david-grimes

I fixed it. It’s too stupid to say. Why didn’t I do it yesterday.

Ok. I’ve never done any of the things suggested, but something needs to happen. Hope it works for me. It’s up in the air. I’m clicking Resolved.

songdogtech,
Yes. I know Yahoo has .htaccess issues. It’s the only host I’ve had, maybe 10 years now. I never had 500 errors until recently. Without knowing how to do it, I built a site with a WYSIWYG site builder. They’re a search engine, but they’re who I chose starting out. I’m familiar with their layout and process. They’re a dinosaur, they were late upgrading to php 5. But they’re never down. Their tech support is there. WordPress is an addition that hangs off the tool belt, like the blog hangs off the above site with a slash. But the blog has become as important as the original site.

Without getting into endorsements, who might be some higher quality hosts?

Suzette,
There is a lot I don’t know. I’ll search uptime monitoring tools. Never heard of them. Yes, Yahoo is the web host.

Matt,
I forgot to say I called Yahoo tech support. They say there is nothing wrong with the Yahoo configuration. And, the part of the site that isn’t wordpress, the …com part, has no issues.

They talked about clearing caches. I’ve cleared caches repeatedly and maybe reduced the number of errors.

I have always upgraded in small steps before. I don’t know why I didn’t do it this time. This topic is resolved.

Ok. Thanks for your help.

Yes, I have a backup.

I guess I didn’t do that. Too big of a jump?

Thanks cos. I was looking for that. I found older messages about widgets.php that were, uh, older, outdated, and didn’t help. default-widgets.php did the trick for me. I deleted the link I didn’t want. –WDG