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Check that you have a call to the stylesheet in the themes header.php file in the head section. You should have something like this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

If you have this then make sure that your themes stylesheet is named correctly. It should be called style.css

Something like this for your coding your php file:

<div id="post-info">
  Date, Authour image etc goes in here
</div>
<div id="post-content">
  Put your post content here
</div>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>

and the CSS for this would be (assuming your page is 800px wide):

#post-info {
  width: 280px;
  float: left;
  margin-right: 20px;
}
#post-content {
  width: 500px;
  float: left;
}

If you could provide a link to your site showing the problem then I am sure that we could help.

Try clearing your browsers cookies and cache first before trying anything too drastic!

I use MAMP all the time to create sites locally and then when they are ready I upload them to the remote server ready for the site to be online. Here is what I do once the site is finished:

Login to phpmyadmin through the MAMP homepage. Export the database using the PHPmyadmin export tool. This downloads a .sql file to your machine (I put it on the desktop)

Open this .sql file in a text editor (textedit is fine on the mac) and then do a find and replace. Find all instances of your local URL (mine is always https://localhost:8888/sitefolder/) and replace with the new URL of the were the blog will be once on the web. Save the file.

On the remote server in PHPMyadmin import this .sql file to your database.

Upload all the local files to your server.

Go to the new address of the blog on the server and all should be fine and work as it did locally.

TIP: sometimes I have to browse the options table in the database using PHPMyadmin and change the blog address to the new remote address and also the wordpress address. Sometimes the find and replace does these two values, and sometimes it doesn’t. I am not at all sure why!

Take a look here as I am pretty sure that you can customize the text that WordPress brings back.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/previous_post_link

If you want a static page to be your ‘home page’ then create a page in WordPress (perhaps call it home). Then in your WordPress settings go to reading and choose Front Page Displays static page and then choose the page that you have created (called home?).

Yes probably. However it is the <title> in the page head that google is more concerned about when it comes to SEO. I would say that if you feel you have bad SEO at the moment and you are moving to a better solution, then go for it!

Hard to determine without a link to your site. However if you want your navbar to sit in the centre of the screen try this.

Specify the width of the navbar to be lets say 90% and then give it margin right and margin left auto, like this:

.navbar {
  width: 90%;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}

Difficult with a link to your site. However most themes have a “post” div class which all posts are wrapped in. Therefore adding this to the bottom of your style sheet should do the trick:

.post a {
  color: #000000;
  text-decoration: none;
}

This will make all links in a post black with no underline. Change the hex code to a colour to suite your needs.

To check whether it is a theme issue or not, try reverting back to the default theme and then see if you can edit text widgets. If you can then you know that it is a problem with the theme that you are using.

I had this problem a while ago with a cheap hosting company which I eventually left in part because of this. I did manage a fix though until other things started annoying me.

In the wp-config.php file where you state the database location I had got an address to the database in there as it was not local e.g.

sql.somedomain.com

instead i changed this to the specific IP address of the database location rather than the domain e.g.

123.456.7.89

I think this was a problem with the hosting companies DNS messing up. Once I had done this it worked far more reliably and didn’t suffer the symptoms that you are describing.

If you have changed nothing then why not try and get onto your hosting provider to see if they have changed anything?

I am not sure why it is not working as I have never done that. I would always recommend that you upload your images. The main reason is that if you are using Pictures from URL and they move (particularly if they are not your own) then they will disappear from your site.

<?php query_posts('cat=28'); ?>

Add the above directly before the loop in your themes index.php file.