I’m missing something important.

That link doesn’t work for me. It wants to redirect me to https://www.charles-suggs-computer.local

I left out two salient points. I am self hosted, and when I view my blog at localhost, all of the visuals show.

In re to the second post in this thread-

That is odd. If I type that address into Safari, it redirects me to where you were redirected. If, on the otherhand, I surf to that address using a back-up ISP I get to it and only see text. If I override the .local address and force the ccs-ams address I see WP in all of its glory.

https://maczealots.com/tutorials/wordpress/ ?

Thanks for the link to the tutorial. That is the one I used to install my first WP blog. I did virtually the same thing using phpMyAdmin this time, then I went back and installed through the terminal and now back to phpMyAdmin.

WP works, it connects to the database, I can view it on localhost with no problems.

If I surf in from another account, I only see the text for the titles, posts, and so forth. I am really frustrated because I have reinstalled WP six times, installed an older version of MySql. re-created the database a dozen times. Of course the problem is if you have repeated an error two or three times it becomes part of the process.

The key is, WP works fine on localhost. From the outside I get the correct text but no formatting. If the directories were wrong I couldn’t get the text.

Try this link:

https://ccs-ams.com/blog/

I know it looks the same but I am entering it from my alternate location.

Are you absolutely sure that your <link> info to the stylesheet is correct?

Viewing your link through FF, with Dev Toolbar enabled, there’s no external stylesheet at all…. just a few inline styles….

Thanks, got it, I needed to change the blog URI under options. It works fine now, though I’m not sure where that spurious redirect comes from. Thanks all.