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Yes thankyou Samboll,

I have got it all working now.

As for attitude ! do you really think that anybody about to use wordpress is going to sit down and wade through thousands of pages or posts before using the program…? Be realistic, the majority of people would scan through the basics & then have a go, hoping to pick up info as they progress & delve deeper & deeper into it.

Unfortunately I am not a book worm or an academically minded person, therefore I learn much quicker & better, by practical experience and I’m sure there are very many people that are exactly the same !!
It doesn’t make you right & us wrong, it is simply that different people learn in different ways.

One final point, please bear in mind that when someone has a problem with what they are attempting to do with WordPress, quite often they will have sat for hours, (or in my case days) trying everything they can think of to remedy their problem, many are at their witts end when they eventually resort to asking for help on this forum ! Therefore I do not think that to reply with attitude as you did, is the correct way to create a solid, friendly & helpful community, do you..??

If the questions & problems of us novices are irritating to you then please just step aside & allow someone with a more tolerant and understanding nature to answer instead. That said I do thankyou sincerly for your advice, it is just that having almost lost my entire site (yes due to my own stupidity) I can well do without your self righteous and critical attitude.

Regards Taffy

Well to answer your question,

I guess people don’t do it the right way to start with, simply because they don’t know what the right way is !

I just wish that one day maybe I’ll be just as perfect as YOU ! never making any mistakes !!!!
How lucky you were to have been born with all this superb knowledge pre programmed into your brain.

I only hope that one day in the not too distant future, I too can have an attitude like you !!!

Oh & thankyou for the info, I’ll just go do it the right way now OK

Hahaha,

I take back everything I said, I am in fact a bloody genius !!!

The idea I dreamed up, mentioned above worked perfectly. Everything is back including all images etc no errors and all fully functioning hahaha

Thanks anyway guys.

Now to try for the 2nd time to switch hosts & at the same time change domain name…???
Oh hell I bet this is going to hurt !!!

Hi iridiax,

Tried that mate and after removing two blank lines, it just went to page cannot be displayed !

So I just had a thought that maybe there is a difference between installing WP from within cpanel & installing manually…? I could be talking utter garbage, but i’ll try anything just to get access to my posts in the database. I know the original was a manual install, so at least this way I can tell it at the start what the database is & the user name & password.
Anyway am busy uploading WP 2.7 to give it a go, will let you know soon if it sorts the problem.

Regards Taffy

Hi, thanks for the quick response !
However I don’t think I explained myself properly, my site on the old host is gone & I cannot get it back because the backup I did turned out to be corrupted ! So am thinking that if I can at least get access to the database, I could at least retrieve the posts that were on the site.
I have tried dozens of times to do a new install of WP (so no plugins or theme) & then to switch to the old database as that is still there and intact on the old host ! But no matter what I try I cannot get a fresh install of WP to work with the old database. I have tried “Restoring” the DB & have even tried importing over the top of the 2nd DB, but whatever I try I still get the same errors mentioned previously.

I need some method of installing wordpress to read my old database and thereby allowing me to copy the posts to my comp ready to rebuild the site !

Regards Taffy

Hi Michael,

Thanks for that, I’ll checkout it all out & see what I can get to work ! Am new to all this so page templates etc are way over my head at the moment !

Hi Guys,

Yes my problem is solved thanks to iridiax,

but I thought I’d let you all know who the guilty parties were, in case you get the same problem.

1.AStickyPostOrderER 0.2.2.8

2.FD Feedburner

If I enable either of these 2 plugins, then they screw up my sites RSS by displaying categories instead of posts !!!

Thanks again iridiax

A big big Thanks to iridiax,

Yes I followed your advice & disabled all plugins and yes back to listing all posts in my RSS all in correct date order ! Excellent thanks again.

Now I just have to track down the guilty party grrrr

Regards

Steve

Excellent thanks a lot ! ??

Aha I see,

So it is better to have a static home page with links to all other posts, is that correct…???

Thanks