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This is actually the www.ads-software.com forum.

https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

The forum/support page over at WordPress.com will be able to provide more relavent/knowledgeable help.

https://en.forums.wordpress.com/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/

Your theme has to specifically tell WordPress that it supports post thumbnails. To do this, you use add_theme_support:

Function Reference/add theme support

In this case:

add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails' );

A couple relavent links:

Codex: Post Thumbnails

https://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-add-featured-image-thumbnails-to-your-wordpress-theme/

Google creates those automatically.

https://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334

No, it looks like you’ve replaced the code that would show your widgets with hardcoded custom queries/loops. You have to have a call to dynamic_sidebar.

Function Reference/dynamic sidebar

Look at an unaltered version of Twenty Ten’s sidebar.php to see an example of how dynamic_sidebar is used in the context of you theme.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/twentyten

You could always save a post/page as a draft. Then it won’t appear on your site at all until you publish it.

If you’re redirecting a site on WordPress.com (example.wordpress.com) it has to be done through them.

I just wanted to make sure since it’s possible to use your own domains on WordPress.com. So, you’re looking to redirect a WordPress.com site to your own? That’s still a question that primarily falls within the realm of WordPress.com:

https://en.support.wordpress.com/site-redirect/

Your site isn’t really hosted here. www.ads-software.com and .com are separate entities:

https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

@os1:

Since the OP hasn’t said anything in a couple weeks, I would assume his issue was resolved. The problem here was with what id_base was set to. It would be best to start another topic specific to your question(s).

When you say “both use WordPress” do you mean both are hosted on WordPress.com? If so, you should try their forum/support page instead. You’ll find people who are more knowledgeable about WordPress.com there.

https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/
https://en.support.wordpress.com/

Editing core files isn’t a good idea. The proper way to remove the links to xmlrpc.php and wlwmanifest.xml is by adding something like this to your theme’s functions.php or a custom plugin:

remove_action( 'wp_head', 'rsd_link' );
remove_action( 'wp_head', 'wlwmanifest_link' );

To remove l10n.js (or any registered script) you can simply deregister it like this:

if ( !is_admin() ) {
    add_action( 'init', 'my_init' ); 

    function my_init() {
        wp_deregister_script( 'l10n' );
    }
}

Function Reference/wp deregister script

I would image most people aren’t too concerned about this. The files added by WordPress itself are fairly small and necessary for certain functionality.

The external JavaScript file is currently being added correctly to every page but this one. If you check your site’s footer on any other page:

<script type='text/javascript' src='https://scottcarltonblog.net/wp-content/themes/BLANK-Theme/author-toggle.js?ver=3.2.1'></script>

Is the “our-team” page using a custom template? It seems to be missing the footer: get_footer();

If you want to move the file here: wp-content/theme/BLANK-Theme/js/author-toggle.js

Then you just need to alter the second argument of wp_register_script:

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'add_my_js' );

function add_my_js() {
    wp_register_script( 'my-author-js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/author-toggle.js', array( 'jquery' ), false, true );
    wp_enqueue_script( 'my-author-js' );
}

And, if you want to have it only load on this one page, you can do this:

add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'add_my_js' );

function add_my_js() {
    if ( is_page( 8 ) ) {
        wp_register_script( 'my-author-js', get_template_directory_uri() . '/js/author-toggle.js', array( 'jquery' ), false, true );
        wp_enqueue_script( 'my-author-js' );
    }
}

Since that seems to be a problem with BuddyPress, you might try asking in their support forum:

https://buddypress.org/support/topics/

Edit:

I noticed you’re also using bbPress. Here’s their support forum:

https://bbpress.org/forums/

You can add the tag(s) “buddypress” and/or “bbpress” to this topic if you want it to appear on either of their plugin pages. I don’t know enough about these plugins to suggest anything.

Are you referring to this forum? You were able to create this new topic…

For secondary loops using get_posts or manually creating new WP_Query objects like my example above is generally the way to go.

Template Tags/get posts
Class Reference/WP Query

Without knowing specifically what you’re looking to do (including your current queries or what posts/pages you’re looking to query for, the order of their display, what exactly you mean by a slider, etc.) it’s difficult to comment on anything else.

query_posts is for altering the main loop. What are you wanting to accomplish?