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Ah, very clever. Thanks!

I’ll give it a go.

In simple terms, what does your piece of code do?

Thanks panther8, are you sure there’s no way of doing it? It seems like a fairly good idea and I can’t be the first person to have thought of it.

Anyone?

Thank you. Editing the file on the server has done the trick, oddly enough.

You’re a genius!

Thanks a lot, that worked great!

Thanks a lot, that seems to have solved the problem. Oddly the php include() in line 1 was fine. The problematic one was much further down.

Thanks a lot!

Sorry, I meant search.php not searchpage.php. My mistake. Anyway, the problem still stands.

Any ideas?

What version of WordPress are you using?

What did you change when you were fiddling with it?

The problem was indeed with WordPress 2.8.3, I uploaded 2.8.4 today and hey presto, I could log in, effortlessly.

I now have just one or two minor problems including:

I want my permalinks to be formatted: musicalit.ie/2009/08/25/sample-post/

However WordPress tells me the following:

If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

I have been in touch with my hosting provider, and hopefully they’ll be able to sort that and one or two other little niggles out for me.

If not though I shall be back for more help!

(Thanks a lot to all of the above posters for your help)

Having done that, the characters just disappear, leaving me with a completely blank page, which I assume means that the problem has little or nothing to do with the characters.

All of the WordPress files are definitely on the server. I have re-installed several times, but the problem persists. If I manually try to navigate to pages such as /wp-admin/index.php, I get a blank page (with the same charachters unless I do as you suggest above).

P.S
There is no .htaccess file anywhere in the WordPress directory, could this have anything to with it?

Here you go:
https://www.musicalit.ie

Notepad 2. I’ve edited nothing but the wp-config.php file, which is working fine, because it contains the database details. If it was not working, the site would not be online.

I am beginning to think the problem might be with WordPress 2.8.3 .

I see that 2.8.4 is now available, I might try that

It’s not the header, as the pages it displays on are in the admin section, not the site pages with your choice of theme that everyone sees on the site.

I found this, I know it’s about Joomla, but it explains what the symbol is: https://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=275353

It’s to do with the UTF-8 Character Set

I still haven’t solved the problem though, so keep the suggestions coming!

Thanks for your help, I’m sure I’ll be back looking for more advice ;0

I am now going to install WordPress locally as per samboll’s advice, the reason for my suggestion of not connecting to the internet was to keep the site on my server only, with no access via an online domain.

I will eventually put the website onto paid for hosting, but I first want to test