andrew_c

Ah ok, that all makes sense now.

Here is my next problem. I have downloaded a theme called basic https://www.visual-assault.org/projects/wp_theme-basic/. When I upload it into the theme directory at the rrfp.net site, I cannot get it to show up in the Presentation view of the admin panel. However, when I upload it to my personal webpage, it works fine. What could be wrong? If I contact the client’s server, what do I need to tell them?

This may be another piece of the puzzle. When I delete all the .php files from the kubrick theme’s directory, it does not change the look of the blog whatsoever. However, if I mess with the style sheet, I can get things like color and type and position to change. However, nothing I do can change the tags and page structure (which is very strange considering I deleted the files completely).

I think it may have something to do with them having a central install of wordpress for all of the pages they host??

Thanks again for your time!

I’m a little confused, you say “Another option is to copy the function into your template”. By template, in this case you mean my news.php file? And where would the copied and edited funtion go, somewhere in the header?

I understand the rest about calling my_excerpt() instead of the_excerpt().

I also attempted to make a very simple theme to start with, then messing around with that but I could not even get the new theme to show up in the admin presentation view. I started off with a copy of the kubrick’s index.php and a copy of style.css with the header’s info changed. I uploaded them into /wp-content/themes/rrfp/ and double checked the permissions, however this theme still does not show up.

Thanks a whole lot for your help. I really appreaceate you taking time to help walk me through this.