DianeV

Did you check as to whether you’d uploaded all the new files properly?

When uploading something like WordPress, it’s important to delete the files on the server first (otherwise, some might not get replaced with new files during the upload).

Maybe so. ??

Just a note: I recently successfully upgraded a friend’s blog from 1.2.2 to 2.9 through these steps:

1.2.2 => 1.5 => 2.9

As esmi pointed out, if you back up your WordPress files *and* your database, they’ll be safe in any case.

Okay. But the content *is* in the database. WordPress consists of two parts:

(1) the WordPress blog software, which includes your theme (the design)
(2) the database

From the error messages, I’d guess that the database is still on the server, so I’d work to get that backed up right away.

By the way, I upgraded a friend’s WordPress 1.2.2 blog to 2.9 recently … all I did was upgrade to WP 1.5, and then to 2.9. It went smoothly.

=> In your case, I’m wondering if you didn’t upload a folder, like the wp-includes folder. Check to see if you uploaded everything.

NOTE: With applications that have a lot of folders and a lot of files, it’s best to delete the older files on the server (but keep the ones that WP tells you to keep) and then upload the new ones. Otherwise, you may end up with old files still there or old files not overwritten by new files, all of which will give you problems.

Hmm. It’s removing the slash before category.

Have you tried resetting your permalinks? Sometimes that fixes things like this.

I generally always have other stuff in the .htaccess file.

The trick is not to put the other stuff in between the #BEGIN and #END comments.

At least, that’s how it’s worked for me.

It looks like the stylesheet for the admin area is missing. Or perhaps the templates for the admin area have been messed with.

Perhaps re-upload the admin theme?

Some of your images are just huge, but you’re using HTML (or CSS) to display them at a smaller width and height. That is not the same as actually resizing them in an image editor (such as Photoshop).

As to an optimal image size, that would be about 1K … which is hardly optimum for most website usages.

Ah, a list uses different coding than paragraph tags. Yours is (I’ll just use a few lines):

<p>My name is jon</p>
<p>i live in canada</p>
<p>this is my first post</p>

It should be:

<ul>
<li>My name is jon</li>
<li>i live in canada</li>
<li>this is my first post</li>
</ul>

Changing your password is not going to help if your site is infected.

I visited and my anti-virus detected Trojan-Clicker.JS.Iframe.db. It appears that the site also links to a page on a Russian domain.

You’ll need to go through your site files and remove any coding calling the trojan. This *may* involve going through your database.

Then find out how it got there in the first place so that you can take steps to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.

Good catch, Chris_K.

Looks like the DNS is pointing to a nameserver at atomicwebhosting.com.

Typically, saying something “doesn’t work” does not give enough information for anyone to help. For instance, you’ve said you are “not able to get comments to a post” … do you mean that the comment feature on your blog is not displaying? Or that it does display but when you submit a comment, the comment itself doesn’t display?

I’d think it should be “can’t comment” or something of that sort:
https://www.ads-software.com/search/cannot+comment?forums=1

NEVER type your databasename, username and password onto an online forum … you’ve just given away the security to your blog, and possibly the server. You do realize that anyone can read this?

Have you tried the search feature? Perhaps some of these may be of help:
https://www.ads-software.com/search/login+404?forums=1

Have you asked the plugin author?

Looks like the site is here:
https://recaptcha.net/plugins/wordpress/