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Well, first off, you shouldn’t type that into the Permalinks box. That’s a mod_rewrite rewrite rule and should be entered directly into your .htaccess file. You should probably delete your .htaccess file, re-enter the permalink structure that you were using, remake the .htaccess file with the rules that WordPress generates (or have WordPress insert the rules for you by CHMOD’ing the .htaccess to something writeable by the server), and then add in that rewrite rule manually.

Look in sidebar.php, in the themes folder of your WordPress install. That should be located in the wp-content folder.

To provide a little more info for your second question:

You can list all of the pages you’ve created with WordPress using the <?php wp_list_pages(); ?> function. Place the tag where you want the page list to output. See the Codex for more information on the tag’s parameters:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_pages

So far, WordPress only supports one blog with multiple users and cannot support multiple blogs without multiple installs. Look at the MU version.

I don’t know if there’s any script that will auto-create a blog for the user, and I don’t know how simple blog creation is using MU, so I’m sorry I can’t provide more help here.

I use three traffic exchanges to increase traffic to my blog:

BlogExplosion
Blog Clicker
BlogAzoo

Of these, I like BlogExplosion and BlogAzoo the most. They seem to have the best content and more sites so I get repeats less often when I’m surfing. Both have been very good and have gotten me about 1,000 hits a month.

Check around the author’s website or the plugin’s page. These should be included as links in hte plugin’s listing on your Plugins page in the Admin Panel.

Do a search on these boards. There are tons of topics on this. Also look around the Codex, in the Blog Design section for some good information on how the WordPress theme system works.

Pretty much your only choice is to make a new theme. You could just modify the default theme to look the way you want, but then that would just be creating a new theme anyway, yea? Creating a new theme isn’t nearly as hard as it sounds. It’s really easy to convert an HTML page to a WordPress template. You just need to add a few of WordPress’ template tags to the mix and change the file extension.

Search the boards first. Then, if your questions are still unanswered, post back here.

Try removing the second line in the code. I use WordPress functions like this in some of my non-WordPress pages, and I don’t include that second line.

I’m pretty sure that there’s a plugin for this somewhere on the boards, I just can’t remember where it is anymore.

Other than that, the only way that I can think of testing themes is to use a separate install on your server; or you could install WordPress on your own computer and test it out there.

All of your posts are not actually contained in any files on your server. As we’ve been saying, they are in a MySQL database which is completely separate from your files. WordPress accesses this database every time it needs to display one of your pages and pulls the necessary information (posts, comments, titles, etc.) from the database and generates a page to be displayed by the browser. If you look in any of the WordPress files themselves with a text editor or something (not through your browser’s source function) you won’t see any of your posts, just the strucutral HTML and some PHP tags.

So, in short, WordPress separates your posts themselves from the structure. The files that you see on your server are just the strucutre of your blog. Your database is in a different part of your server and won’t be deleted when you delete these files.

Also, if you do decide to do what you’re saying, make sure that you run the upgrade.php script on your database before you switch it over to 1.5. That’ll ensure that the database is compatible with 1.5.

Try using <?php wp_list_cats('children=1'); ?> to display the categories. If that’s not working try <?php wp_list_cats('hierarchical=1'); ?>. I use the first and my category lists are indented as you describe.

Codex on the wp_list_cats tag:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats

Make sure you’ve disabled Textile 1, Textile 2, and Markdown in your Plugins page. The asterisk is a formatting character that marks bold text when these plugins are active. I think that that’s all you should need to do.

I believe that WordPress gives the thumbnail image the same filename as the original image, but with either thumb_ or thumb- attached to the front. You’ll just need to change the filename in the image tag you’re given, and then wrap it in a link tag. Example for image image.gif:

<a href="image.gif" title="Full version of image.gif"><img src="thumb_image.gif" alt="image.gif" /></a>

Of course, you’d change the paths to the images to reflect where they actually are one your server. WordPress really should give the link to the thumbnail if you’ve asked for one to be created. I wonder if there’s a way to automate this?

Thanks Kaf! I hadn’t thought of doing something like that, but that does work. I wonder if there’s any easier way to do it? Ah well, your way works and that’s all I care about. Thanks again!