doncampbell

@mayazack – please email [email removed] and we’ll help you out with this.
Thanks,
-Don

@cuteseyglam, the SmallBiz Theme supports full WordPress menus – here’s a tutorial that shows how to set them up: https://userguide.expand2web.com/introduction-to-the-wordpress-menu-builder/
-Don

@muzahistka,
We rely on the APIs for the reviews service to get back the # of reviews. Sometimes a business has multiple profiles, with different #s of reviews.

In Google’s case, the Places Page does not have an API to retrieve reviews, so we have to scrape the page. When they change the page layout or formatting (which happens frequently!) then it sometimes breaks our parser.

We’re working on an update to the service now due to some recent changes Google made.

Thanks Andrea. So there is no way to customize the theme on a site-by-site basis then? For example, even if they wanted to tweak the theme style sheet slightly, then it would change it for all the sites, right?

Is there any way to enable a local copy of the theme for each site in multi-site?

It depends on the theme header.php file. I’ve seen some that make it difficult to verify. Here is a video that shows you how to get it verified: Verify your WordPress Website in Google Webmaster Tools.
-Don

@directorysieve – I agree that the file upload is the best way to do it. A lot of newer folks I’ve talked to aren’t familiar with FTP though.

I made a video that shows how to verify using the Meta tag method. It works with any theme. Verify Your WordPress Website in Google Webmaster Tools.
-Don

I had this same problem on 1and1. I ended up creating a new MySQL 5.0 db, exporting my old db, importing to the new one, and then changing my wp-config to point to the new database.

Here’s the step by step how to do it – What I learned upgrading to WordPress 2.9

Too bad WP Automatic Upgrade doesn’t check the DB version before taking you 90% through the install…

@patrick – try taking your site out of maintenance mode. FTP to the directory where you have WordPress installed and rename or delete the .maintenance file. Then see if you can log into your Admin and re-activate your plugins.

If your upgrade failed before the database upgrade was done, you might also try to copy the WordPress 2.8.6 files back over to your installation – just make sure you don’t overwrite your existing wp-config.php file!

Good luck.

@Henrikbunck – Here’s what I did to do a successful WP 2.9 upgrade on 1and1 –

I used phpMyAdmin to export my database from MySQL4 and import it into a new MySQL5 database. Here’s a step by step with screen shots of what I ended up doing to move the database tables and get a successful upgrade:

What I learned upgrading to WordPress 2.9

I hope that helps and can save you some of the hassle that I went through!
-Don

In case anyone is still struggling with the ERROR: WordPress 2.9 requires MySQL 4.1.2 or higher message.

Here’s what I did to do a successful WP 2.9 upgrade (1and1 was my hosting provider) –

I used phpMyAdmin to export my database from MySQL4 and import it into a new MySQL5 database. Here’s a step by step with screen shots of what I ended up doing to get a successful upgrade:

What I learned upgrading to WordPress 2.9

I hope that helps and can save someone the hassle that I went through when I took my blog offline!
-Don

@geeksimplified – I ran into that exact same problem. Here’s how I did it – I used phpMyAdmin to export my database from MySQL4 and import it into a new MySQL5 database.

What I learned upgrading to WordPress 2.9

Let me know if this helps or if you have other questions. I just went through this process and will be glad to share what I learned!
-Don

@monu2323 – have you looked at WordPress Mu? It allows you to manage multiple blogs with a single install of WordPress. It might help with what you are trying to do. Here is the link: https://mu.www.ads-software.com/
-Don

@agenerousdesigner – I was having a similar problem and putting the <?php wp_reset_query(); ?> right before my is_home() call did the trick!
Thanks!
-Don

@t31os_ Thanks – I was having a similar problem and putting the <?php wp_reset_query(); ?> right before my is_home() call did the trick!
-Don

@seaneee,
If you want content that explains the page before it starts listing the posts, you’ll have to add that content into the page template PHP file itself. When a page is based on a page template, it ignores all of the content that you put into the editor interface.

Here is a video on setting up custom Page Template that might be helpful: Make WordPress Look Like a Website.