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If you install WordPress (any version) on your new host with a completely new database, can you then login to your admin panel? If you can get to this point in the install, then you can begin the process of importing your backed-up database.

Are you asking how to get a web feed icon on the sidebar of your blog?

Log into the admin page of your wordpress account and go to the Appearance->Widgets page. Drag a “Text” widget into your sidebar and put this code into the widget:

<a href="https://www.lancebledsoe.com/feed/"><img src="https://www.lancebledsoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/rss_48x481.png" /></a>

(You’ll want to change the URLs and pathnames to point to your site, icons, etc.)

I’m not sure if this question was ever answered. It appears to be the case that only certain people who post in the www.ads-software.com forums get their website linked to their username, but who exactly are these people. People who have posted a certain number of times?

(It’s apparently not necessary to be a “Moderator” in order to get this functionality, since whooami has a linked username, but is labeled a “Member.”)

I haven’t tried this, but have you seen this post: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/225403?replies=9 ?

(It makes use of the fact that you can use the Tools->Export function to export only the posts written by a single author.)

I assume you mean you exported and imported your WordPress MySQL database from one host to another, correct? Before you do the import, you need do a global search and replace to change all the instances of the pathname of your old webspace to the pathname of your new webspace. There may be WordPress plugins to assist with this, but I just used a text editor and did it myself.

Take a look at https://www.lancebledsoe.com/how-to-move-your-wordpress-blog-to-a-new-host/

Yes, gravatar.com is the “official” way that WordPress handles avatars, though there are a number of plugins available that add additional functionality.

You’re correct that on gravatar.com, each gravatar is linked to a single email address (though you can upload multiple images, and change the one that’s associated with a particular email address).

But it’s also true that a single gravatar.com account can manage multiple email addresses (I have three email addresses on mine). While I think the intent was to allow one to manage multiple email addresses which all belonged to the gravatar account holder, I don’t see why you couldn’t use your account to manage the gravatars of other people as well.

Have you tried it?

Is the “Show avatars” button selected on your Settings->Discussion page?

I believe that as of WP2.5, all the avatar support is handled thru gravatar.com (unless you install some sort of plugin).

You say you don’t have FTP access, but you have the ability to upload a full backup (of WordPress files)? How would you do this?

Rather than doing a full reinstall or uploading from a full backup, I’d think it would make more sense to start by deleting/reinstalling the simple-indy theme files (or even just the one functions.php file), since that seems to be where the problem is.

As far as I know, in the WordPress universe avatar=gravatar, which means that anyone who wants an avatar to display next to their comments on your blog must create an account at gravatar.com and upload an image.

Click on the “Discussion” link under the “Settings” menu in the left sidebar of your admin page, and check the settings. In particular, make sure you have a check mark next to, “Allow people to post comments on new articles.”

There appears to be a problem with one of the files (functions.php) in your simple-indy theme. Did you just install/activate this theme or was it working before?

Do you have FTP access to your site? If so, you could delete the simple-indy folder from your themes directory, which should eliminate the problem. Of course, it would also eliminate that theme from your WP site, but you could easily download and reinstall it. (You’d probably have to re-do any customizations you made to the theme, however.)

Is it possible that the email address that’s associated with your gravatar (on your gravatar.com account) is not the same email address that’s associated with the admin login for your recently-created (www.ads-software.com) blog?

I had that problem once. As soon as I logged into my gravatar.com account and added the correct email address to it (and linked the image to the email address), my gravatar showed up next to my comments.