wolf99

Thanks for the help! getting my webhost to setup the ports as required solved the issue ??

OK on the back of my thought at the end of the last post I found wp-admin/custom-background.php and its take_action() function.

A) is it possible to override this in a child theme like manner, or will I need to actually alter this file?
B) if I need to alter the file, can I safely add a new if(){…} to the function just before $this->updated = true; and add the code for displaying it something like:

<tr valign="top">
<th scope="row"><?php _e( 'Vertical Position' ); ?></th>
<td><fieldset><legend class="screen-reader-text"><span><?php _e( 'Background Vertical Position' ); ?></span></legend>
<label>
<input name="background-vertical-position" type="radio" value="top"<?php checked('top', get_theme_mod('background_vertical_position', 'left')); ?> />
<?php _e('Top') ?>
</label>
<label>
<input name="background-vertical-position" type="radio" value="middle"<?php checked('middle', get_theme_mod('background_vertical_position', 'left')); ?> />
<?php _e('Middle') ?>
</label>
<label>
<input name="background-vertical-position" type="radio" value="bottom"<?php checked('bottom', get_theme_mod('background_vertical_position', 'left')); ?> />
<?php _e('Bottom') ?>
</label>
</fieldset></td>
</tr>

Prob not that easy, am pretty n00b at PHP though, only learning as I go, just enough to get by…
Thanks for any help

Hi michebel

simply add wp-admin/ to the end of your blog url to get https://www.michebelzhollywood.com/wp-admin/ and this will bring you either to the password gate, or if your already logged it will take you to your dashboard.

Thanks Eric its appreciated

Ok thanks Esmi, I’ll just have to man up and take the plunge to deleting files…

My hosting package doesnt support the MySQL and PHP requirements, but I need the security of a more recent install…

Also the update details page notes that updates should never be applied over more then two versions, i.e. I can update to the next version or the one after directly but that I shouldnt update to a third version without updating to the first or second one first. As my version 3.0.4 is about 7 or 8 versions behind 3.2.1 I would still need to update to an older version first…

@keesiemeijer:
Thanks for that link, but it doesnt shed much light on the question…

Thanks again esmi

Hi esmi many thanks for your reply, that clears things up a bit ??

Hi Eric

apologies for the long delay in replying; the other plugins I have activated are: MiniMeta Widget and Widget Logic.

If I remember correctly I did try deactivating these and trying the archive update again but with no change in the results…

Many thanks

Oh God I am such an idiot!!

Just found the option, turned off, in user control!!

My memory has been slowly turning to mush recently…

Thanks for your help anyway esmi ??

Hi esmi

Yes it does

As I say the only change I can think of between it being and not being there is the changes to the child function file, which change the height of the header image….

Other wise Ive not done much else structurally code-wise since 3.x was installed…

The theme Im using is a custom child theme of the TwentyTenHTML5 theme
The child theme only adds 4 files:

• front one column page template.php
• header.php
• functions.php
• styles.css

Ive tried switching to several different themes with no effect, all of which are high grade themes (thematic, twentytenhtml5, etc) and all call wp-footer….
Is there a place it can be turned on and off in the cp? I may have done this and not remember… ??

Hi there

I have tried resetting the plugins folder also now with no luck…
thanks

Hi esmi
thanks for your reply

As I say I have only 1 plugin which was installed long before the bar left and I have tried deactivating it to no effect But I will try resetting the plugin dir as you suggested

Switching themes does not help…

thank

Ah, my thanks Rev. Voodoo this makes more sense!! ??
works perfectly ??

So I grabbed the entire function (twentyten_setup()) from the functions file of the parent theme and put it into a new, empty, functions.php file in my child theme.

I changed the values I required changing and added <?php before the function and ?> after the function, with my new size header also upload this worked nicely.

I wonder is this the correct method? Copying down the entire setup function to change one image dimension seems a bit much??
thanks