Darin Kotter

What you could do is get rid of the WordPress dashboard bar, and that fixes the issue pretty easily. If you don’t want to do that, if I’m understanding correctly, giving the anchors a position of relative and then setting the top position to be 28px or more (which is the height of the WP dashboard bar) should show it.

#anchor {
   position: relative;
   top: 28px; // or more
}

This might mess up your alignment elsewhere though.

You have an issue in your functions.php file, just like the error message shows. The easiest way to fix this is open the functions.php file locally on your computer, just in a text editor, find line 458, and you should see a ‘<‘ somewhere around that line that needs to be deleted.

Once that has been removed, you can re-upload the functions.php file via FTP and your site should work. If you need help in finding the wrong character in your functions.php file, you can send the file to me or at least upload the contents somewhere for me or someone else to check out and help you out a little more.

Interesting. It sounds like probably a configuration issue then, either with how your database is set up or with how XAMPP is set up. There’s somethings you can try that are in this thread, that hopefully will help.

Unless the error message is wrong, you have a permissions issue on a file or folder. You’ll need to change the permissions to usually 755 for directories and 644 for files to get it to work. You can read here for more on file permissions.

As far as files go, unless you’ve done some custom stuff, you should only need the wp-content directory. If you want your local site to match exactly what you have online, it’s best to copy the database as well, but you can usually get away with using WordPress’s built in export option.

Do you know what version of PHP you are running? Older versions of PHP and MySQL are not supported by the latest version of WordPress.

Also, here’s a thread with quite a few responses on the same issue.

Have you had success uploading any other images? What the most likely issue is, like the error message says, the parent directory isn’t writeable. This means the server can’t create the correct directory. To solve that issue, you need to change the parent directory (wp-content) to 755 permissions. Changing permissions can be done via an FTP program.

There might also be an issue with ownership, meaning you (your username you use to upload things) doesn’t have ownership of the directory. I think you can fix ownership issues through an FTP program, or it’s easier via SSH:
chmod -R yourusername:yourusergroup full/path/to/your/wordpress/upload/dir

Maybe I should start another thread though for this…

I was using 3.0.5, but I think I updated after I tried implementing this so maybe that was the issue. On another note, I’m having issues with the posts linking to the right place. If you click on the image, it takes you to the home page. I’m assuming this is a permalink issue that I’ll mess with later.

The biggest issue is that when you click on the title, it is supposed to take you to a page where you can see a bigger image and read the full post contents, as well as leave comments. But it just takes you to a page that has the thumbnail and title. The only difference is it does give you the comments page.

So I haven’t had much time to look into it as I’ve been trying to fix this other issue first but I really don’t know why it would do this. Again, maybe it’s a permalink issue as well?

Yeah I just fixed it, at least for now. I had to not only redo all the posts, but delete the images and re upload them as well.

I’ve looked over all the documentation I can find and have everything set up like the examples show. I’ve tried putting in true, I’ve tried putting in false, I’ve tried leaving it blank. I get the same results. If I change the first #, which controls width, the image will change. If I change the second #, which controls height, nothing happens, not even if I set it up to 9999.