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Well, if you’re using <–more–>, that’s your problem right there. The tag is <!--more-->, HTML comment style. Have you been clicking the ‘More’ quicktag button in the edit screen, or have you been writing the tag in yourself?

You might try searching for “shoutboard” and variations of that on Google. Other than that, I don’t know where else to point you.

As far as I can tell, Lorelle’s solution should work. You’ll need to add quotation marks around all of the values for all of your attributes, especially the src attribute, as a browser may read the space as part of the URI, or bork some way like that.

WordPress doesn’t fiddle with the code you insert directly into the template files at all. The only code that it touches is that which you enter into entries or Pages created through the Page feature. WordPress will parse PHP template tags included in the template files, but that shouldn’t effect your code at all. Make sure though that all the PHP tags around the area you’re editing are closed. That means for ever <?php you see, you should see a corresponding ?>. Your problem might possibly be that there’s an open PHP tag somewhere that’s stopping the browser from seeing your HTML code.

By banner graphic, I assume you mean the header image that appears across the top of your blog? As long as you’re using a somewhat clean version of Kubrick, everything regarding images should be contained within the header.php located in the wp-content/themes/default folder of your WordPress installation. I believe that there are even instructions on how to go about changing the header image included as comments in the header.php file.

Kubrick can be rather daunting to edit, but I think that it’s simple enough. The new themes system is designed so that everything about your blog’s presentation is contained within the folder for the theme that you are currently using. Search around the Codex if you have any further problems and you’re bound to find lots of useful help there.

You don’t need to add anything. Create your single.php the way you want it to look and then put it into your theme’s folder. WordPress will take care of the rest for you.

Thank you! Clearing my cookies did the trick. ^_^

You could just use the <blockquote></blockquote> tag. Most themes have this set with some special styling (usually a border on one side and sometimes all around), so you might want to add a class to that tag.

Maybe use <blockquote class="poem"> and then add to your CSS at the bottom of the file:

.poem {
border: 0;
padding: 0;
margin-left: 10px;
}

That’ll make any text block you surround with <blockquote class="poem"> and </blockquote> have a left margin of 10px. You can change that value if you want a bigger or smaller left margin.

This might be a problem with WordPress trying to correct your HTML. In XHTML, the new standard for web coding, all tags must be written in lowercase. WordPress is probably reading your uppercase tags as invalid and removing them.

That’s my only guess. Try writing your tags in lower case.

Unless you’re trackbacking any other links in that post, you can uncheck the ‘Send Trackbacks to all URI’s in the post’ option on the advanced editing screen.

I wouldn’t recommend editing it though the online editor. I acutally wouldn’t recommend editing any of your WordPress files in the onine editor anyway. It’s much easier, I think, to edit your files in a normal text editor offline. That way, you get a copy of the updated file on your computer and all of your files are synched in case you might need to update.

And I don’t think that you can edit the proper index.php in the online editor. I suggest you open up the proper index.php in a normal text editor like Notepad.

I think having an RSS feed is a good idea. With one, readers can subscribe to your entries and keep themselves updated on your entries without having to actually visit your site to read them. And, because RSS is becoming such a mainstream feature of blogs these days, I feel that having a feed shows that you’re dedicated to blogging, insomuch as you feel you’ll be writing entries with enough substance and often enough that readers should subscribe to keep up with you.

The only downside that I could see to having an RSS feed is possible bandwidth problems. If a bunch of your subscribers have their readers set to check for updates very often, your site might get overwhelmed by the constant queries to the RSS feed.

No, I don’t believe that that’s the case. I think that as long as a user is registered, they can post a comment, but if they remain at 0, they can’t write entries. I wouldn’t actually, know, as I don’t allow new registrants at all, but this is how I believe the system works.

Edit the index.php file that you placed into your root directory so that the line that looked like:

require('./wp-blog-header.php');

now looks like:

require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');

After that, things should work. Make sure that the file you are editing only has a few lines (I think it’s four or six?) in it. Otherwise, you may be editing the wrong file.

This is a common problem that’s not really a problem, more than it is a design choice on the part of the designer of the default template. To “fix” this, open archive.php in a text editor and replace all occurances of the_excerpt with the_content.

This has been answered numerous times before, so please do a search before you post a question on this board.

wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&child_of=170&title_li = ');

If that’s what you’re using exactly, the only problem that I can see is that you have a space between the title_li and the equals sign. The space after the equals is OK, but before is not. And if you built this tag straight from the Codex page on it, this should be your only problem.
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages