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ok, my suggestion were for the orange titles, with a white hover – they seem to work now.

That’s so bizarre — they DO work now, but they didn’t when I posted yesterday. Must have been a cache issue.

Can I ask a stupid question? This is part of what was confusing me. Why is the title syntax like this: a:link .post-title { } but the more link ISN’T this: a:link .more-link { }?

I’m not doubting it! I’m just trying to wrap my head around it. Thanks!

[edit: I also found the other thing I was looking for:

.entry p a:link {
	color: #fc0;
	}
.entry p a:visited {
	color: #FFF;
	}
.entry p a:hover {
	color: #fff;
	}
.entry p a:active {
	color: #fc0;
	}

It wasn’t just the more links but also the links within entries. For some reason they’d been commented out.]

Thanks alchymyth — no joy when I add it in… Is it because of the page that’s holding the posts? I also tried adding a new style and putting that in a <span> for the title, but still no luck (did that in the “thoroughly confused myself” stage).

Also (not sure if this is new and/or related) — any idea why, at https://teknikor.com/content/career-opportunities/ (which uses essentially the same page template), the first “more” link is #cccccc (body copy color), and shows white on rollover, but the SECOND “more” link is white and (therefore, I assume) shows no rollover?

Thanks!

I’d like to add different -visited, -hover, and -active states to the post title (also to links within the posts, but I figured I’d try to do one thing at a time).

The reason being, client thinks that they don’t “look like links”. If I can add a hover state, at a minimum, they’ll get it.

Thanks yet again, esmi!

Oop, sorry — thanks! We actually DON’T have a blog on that site, so unless they decide to add one, I’m all set. And if they do, well, I’ll worry about that then.

Thanks SO MUCH!

Sorry, I may be being dense — Isn’t that mostly css? I don’t see how it address my issue of separating posts of the News (category) from Jobs (category)…

Sorry for the delay.

Link: https://teknikor.com/content/news/

As you’ll see, if you click on the top News item and go to its individual post, the link to “previous” is a news item, but the “next” link is a job offering! That’s what I’m looking to solve.

Confusion is probably on my end, I must be misinterpreting the codex’s loop page. Is that just for sidebar info or info under the post or something?

Thanks on clarifying that last point, too.

Thanks so much,Esmi! That did it beautifully.

[Code & CSS moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

Oops, sorry about that.

use the following code inside the loop for the dynamic content:

Okay, I tried this but didn’t understand where in the code it went. Is it somewhere within the highlighted lines here?

https://wordpress.pastebin.com/RU14Hrsy

Okay. Some other issues still cropped up, but none related to install.

Went back, removed WP using Fantastico, re-installed using Fantastico, followed all instructions above, all is well.

Exception: pages didn’t want to keep their plug-in assigned status, but again — not an install or move issue.

Thanks for all of your help and patience, Michael.

Never mind that “blooey” — got it back. Accidentally set wp-content/admin to 777.

Also re-upping everything; looks like I accidentally re-upped the “blank” install. Dag-nabbit.

ARGH again. Everything uploaded, permissions set, now when trying to log in at wp-admin, I get a 500 Internal Server Error.

Just minutes ago I WAS able to log in and had the default template. Then I changed permissions and blooey.

Hi again Michael —

Got lucky with host support! They suggested that if the MySQL file was trying to create a DB that I get rid of that line. So I commented out

/*CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS wordpress;
USE wordpress;*/

And it imported with no problem. NOW (of course; it’s one thing after another with me), when I went to the index page, I was told that I was starting the famous 5-minute install. So I went ahead with that and now I have a fresh, clean WP site…

I’m not panicking; I know I have all of the pieces, but I just can’t seem to get them together in the right order.

Of course, I will start panicking when client starts yelling at me that they want the site up and running yesterday…

Thanks again for all the help (and sorry for the inadvertent double-post yesterday).

I don’t know if this is related, but if I go into phpMyAdmin and go to Information Schema to check USER_PRIVILEGES, I get this result:
GRANTEE TABLE_CATALOG PRIVILEGE_TYPE IS_GRANTABLE
‘tekni2’@’localhost’ NULL USAGE NO

And this error at the bottom of the page: “unknown table status: TABLE_TYPE”

ARGH. Asking my host will be like pulling teeth. Here’s my info as shown on the
MySQL Account Maintenance page —

Current Databases:
tekni2_wordpress

Users in wordpress
tekni2_tekadmin (Privileges: ALL PRIVILEGES)

Connection Strings
Perl $dbh = DBI->connect(“DBI:mysql:tekni2_wordpress:localhost”,
“tekni2_tekadmin”,”<PASSWORD HERE>”);
PHP $dbh=mysql_connect (“localhost”, “tekni2_tekadmin”,
“<PASSWORD HERE>”) or die(‘Cannot connect to the database because: ‘ . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db (“tekni2_wordpress”);

tekni2_wrdp1 (Privileges: ALL PRIVILEGES)

And here’s my wp-config —

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'tekni2_wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'tekni2_tekadmin');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', '<password>');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

Doesn’t that look right? Same error.

ARGH. Asking my host will be like pulling teeth. Here’s my info as shown on the
MySQL Account Maintenance page —

Current Databases:
tekni2_wordpress

Users in wordpress
tekni2_tekadmin (Privileges: ALL PRIVILEGES)

Connection Strings
Perl $dbh = DBI->connect(“DBI:mysql:tekni2_wordpress:localhost”,
“tekni2_tekadmin”,”<PASSWORD HERE>”);
PHP $dbh=mysql_connect (“localhost”, “tekni2_tekadmin”,
“<PASSWORD HERE>”) or die(‘Cannot connect to the database because: ‘ . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db (“tekni2_wordpress”);

tekni2_wrdp1 (Privileges: ALL PRIVILEGES)

And here’s my wp-config —

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'tekni2_wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'tekni2_tekadmin');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', '<password>');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

Doesn’t that look right? Same error.