barmaid

You totally rule and I love you bunches. Thanks for the help.

Quick question – JUST the style and footer go in the new folder, right, not the whole theme?

Thanks!

Hahah! I was just coming to ask about that, actually. Thanks for the heads up. I was about to ask if I just changed the theme folder name itself if that would suffice. I use it for another blog, and just changed it to add “gc” at the end of 2010 and none of the updates messed with it.

PS add this below the tags:
Template: twentyten

what tags?

One problem is actually solved -the bullets showing up all the way down the page on the main page of the posts themselves…that isn’t WP3.0 OR 2010 theme…

That was the sexybookmarks plugin. I noticed one of them was a hyperlink and clicked…it took me to Linkedin and it occurred to me the bookmarks weren’t showing up, but the link locations were.

Not sure if it’s a SBM setting or if this plugin isn’t 3.0 compatible but will look at it.

As for the themes being updated and overwritten every time wp is updated, I guess they have their reasons. I have decided to, for now, just copy paste the style sheet and footer back in as soon as I update the rest. It’s a pain but it’s easier than having to go learn Joomla or some other one at the moment.

But, WP people…I got my eyes on you…yes sir…I’m watching. 8-/

Well hopefully they’ll stop messing up the theme settings. I was sooooooooo excited to finally get to 3.0 and figured hey, can’t go wrong with the default theme eh?

Wrong. Every time they change anything it undoes everything. 2.9 is looking really good all of a sudden.

Oops. Sorry. Guess the /end rant tag missed a period.

I just went with the multiple name changes and it worked fine. I don’t know enough to mess with child themes at this stage.

I ended up going with twentyten and modifying it. I got it finished and was in the middle of posting when I saw an update notice. I clicked that and when it finished it undid all my styling in styles.css which royally pissed me off, it was hard enough trying to figure out which attribute went to what thing on the page.

SO DON’T DO THAT ANYMORE.

I fixed it again and saved a copy so next time you guys update and it screws up everything I’ve already done, least I have a copy now.

At any rate, this one’s considered resolved.

Still no answer on the htaccess question but the blogs.dir seemed to show up automatically…and it seems to work fine so I consider this one a wrap unless anyone wishes to let me know about the htaccess file and if it’s ok to have them both in two different folders or how that works.

Thanks!

So can I just rename it and carry on or do I need to scrap it all and start over? As for the htaccess, is it ok to have both copies in the public and wp folders or should I get rid of or change one? So far everything seems to be working as usual…

(Note, it wouldn’t let me edit the above else I’d have reposted there)

Okay…this is what I did, seems to work fine, however I’m wondering if I messed up on this instruction and how easy it is to fix if so…

I set up a sub folder my root domain and installed wp3.0 there, so to get to it would be mydomain.com/wp30

I added the code to the config file and uploaded it
I clicked tools/network and went through he instructions and changed the url names in general section from -www.domain.com/wp30 to -domain.com/wp30

Where it said create blogs.dir in the folder, I did not make it blogs.dir, I only went with blogs. I was confused as to whether that is the specific name or if it was a typo and .dir meant the directory, not some extention??

I added the htaccess but the main file was in public directory. I added the code to it in there and copied/pasted it also into the wp30 wp-content folder

Relogged and seems to be working fine. I added 2 sites, selected themes, set up the options for disable registration.

Should I have made it blogs.dir specifically and if so, can I just rename it or would I have to reinstall the whole thing and start over?

On the htaccess file, I basically have two with the code, one in public and one in the content. Should I delete or change any of them?

Will this matter? If so, how…and how to fix?

Thanks!

Are you sick of this question yet? ;-p

Awesome! Thanks sooo much for the clarification. I appreciate it much!

…or, is that basically what you said? Heh. Arrgggh!

WordPress would be perfect if it was like drag & drop cut & paste style like dynamic drive. It’s easier to learn by just doing. Php frightens me still but I’m sort of getting to understand some of it anyway.

Hi Andrea

Thanks for the reply. Since asking, I did go ahead and install wp3 alpha in a separate directory in my root domain. I have a blog already in another one. I’ve since figured out through messing with it that it’s like a blog distribution system, like you said, wp.com – but I don’t want to distribute blogs to others…I really just want my own personal special topic blogs, each with its own directory, and would be called as mysite.com/blog 1, mysite.com/blog 2 etc.

Now where I’m greatly confused is if I set them all up with the current version and next month the upgrade comes for 3.0, can they all remain standalone blogs? I think I remember reading that I’d have that option.

The question is though, none of them will be using the root domain, my actual website is there. So will I need to designate one of the blogs as a “mothership” blog that will link up the others? Or will that even be a function/option? Or is there a way to link them all together network style?

I know each installation can do it with sites inside that system but if they’re already all using wp before the upgrade, I’m totally lost on how to work out the networking angle.

That brings me back to the original question – if they’re individual installations, there will be X many login info per blog, right?

And is there going to be a global login option for visitors, like registering to post comments? Or will they have to register for each separate blog?

Believe it or not, I slept 3 hrs, stayed up all night into daylight this morning reading, tinkering with wp3 and I’m overloaded and confused worse now than I was when I asked above! ;-p

bump

https://bestfreewordpressthemes.org/mycutepups/

The above is the template I used (and modded a little, changed image, and colors basically)…but she only added one post so the links wouldn’t show up yet. I have more posts but they are inaccessible due to no nav links. Just need to know what the code is to make them/add them, and where exactly I need to add it.

Thanks!

So browsing, it seems I’m not the only one with this problem…and apparently nobody has a clue how to get the nav links to show up or why they do not. All the ones asking got no answers.

I expect the lack of response is because there isn’t a solution?

Great. wp appears to be a waste of time.