Michael

Thanks. I’ll try that.

Not a problem. Thanks for looking. I tried adding that bit of code to the index file but no result. Don’t know what the deal is.

Thanks. Now I have an even dumber question. What exactly is the name of the file I would apply this change to? He’s not specific about it. Don’t know what to make of this:

“In your template file, index, single, whichever one you want to apply this to…”

Thanks for the input gang. I elected to just embed it via Vimeo in a post on the page. The file was not on my local drive (on a friends) and it was hard to compress without using a host server.

Ha! That worked. The blog shows now. Thank you. So what does this mean for my plugins? Is there a bad element in the mix that I need to get rid of?

I’m going to try deactivating the cache plugins first and see if that helps. I don’t want to switch themes. I use a custom made theme that the rss has worked with in the past.

If it is a cache plugin problem is there a workaround, or do I just have to forgot the caching?

Strike that. As I said, I followed these directions – https://digwp.com/2009/06/including-jquery-in-wordpress-the-right-way/ – to try and get a javascript widget to work on my blog.

And it worked! In my header. Ack! So the widget, the Buzzfeed promo boxes, should up at the top of my page, above my actual website header.

I want the widget to appear in my sidebar. I’ve tried placing the code in my sidebar.php and so far no luck.

Can someone smart tell me how to make this happen? I feel like it’s fairly easy, but I can’t figure it out.

Coincidentally, there is a Buzzfeed wordpress plugin, and THAT doesn’t work for me either. Ack!

Thanks. I went through the instructions to add javascript to my header, but nothing. I need to figure out how to get it to show up on my sidebar.php.

This didn’t work for me, but my permalinks problem was actually a template problem. I needed to manually change the links in my sidebar template to match the permalinks on the blog.

I’ve got the same problem. Can anyone recommend solutions?

Fixed! Thanks a lot for your help. No issues with the custom template it turns out. The problem was with the Google analytics plug-in.

Thanks a lot. I do have a customized theme template for my blog. Do I need to deactivate that as well?

It was just a database backup. I’m able to get back to my dashboard now and am going to try upgrading again, but will deactivate all my plugins before installing this time. Is there anything else I need to do beforehand?

Thanks much. I will try this and report back. Just for reference sake this is my current .htaccess

# BEGIN WPSuperCache
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html [L]
</IfModule>

# END WPSuperCache

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Does anyone have any advice on making this work?