erikreagan

Try to find a dreamhost knowledge database or FAQ and search for phpMyAdmin

It looks like you are hosted with GoDaddy. Is this true? If so, log in to your administration panel there and see if you have any MySQL settings you can find. From there you may or may not have a link to something like phpMyAdmin. Since you’re new to this arena and I’ve never used GoDaddy I can’t really help you further unless you can get that far…

Do you have any database manager installed on your server such as phpMyAdmin? If so, you can adjust this there easily. Take a look at the wp_options table and the option_name ‘home’.

The problem is, for some reason, it won’t obey my
commands in code

What type of commands are you giving it? The text should not get bigger unless you change the font-size. As witzelwords suggested ‘line-height’ is probably what you’re looking for. Now if you are trying to get some whitespace after each paragraph tag you may want to adjust the padding-bottom to the p tag in your css.

Okay I will try and get it accessible soon. Thank you

I thought of that earlier but I didn’t want to have lines and lines of code because I will have 20+ of said header images.

I just found a plugin called Get Custom Field Values that does exactly what I want. It allows me to read the custom field data and echo that anywhere outside the loop. I will probably venture to create a plugin that allows me to browse my media for the file and insert that way but for now this works great.

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I guess this will be my last try bumping it….

It sounds like you may have closed your conditional or function or whatever has the curly brace already. If this is not the case then the php line before it may have not been closed with a semi-colon. There are a number of syntax errors that could cause this. Without looking at the code prior to line 41 there’s no way for anyone here to know.

If you want to post some lines before go for it – if you’d like you can IM me @ erikreagan (aim screenname)

FYI – the } and ) are fairly different in programming ??

Yes, it is. Assuming your theme’s files have the correct permissions you can edit the header.php file (most likely containing your header section) directly from the administration. Just go to Design > Theme Editor. This will pull up the theme you are currently running in your blog. Click “Header (header.php)” to edit the file. If you can edit you’ll see an “Update File” button below the text area. If you see a message (“You need to make this file writable before you can save your changes. See the Codex for more information.”) then the file does not have the permissions to edit through the admin and you’ll have to edit the file directly. If you see the message go ahead and click the Codex link and read up on it.
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Why do you need the slash?

It looks like a permalink problem. When clicking on your post titles those also show up as 404 pages. When I try to access your feed by going to /news/wordpress/?feed=rss it works like a charm. Read up on permalinks and their use
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Permalinks

A quick search reveals a number of solutions…

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/search.php?q=popular+post

This one seems to be popular:
https://alexking.org/projects/wordpress
It’s called Popularity Contest

Take a look into the_excerpt() in the codex. This may help you out
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/the_excerpt
De Colores!

It does sounds like your sidebar is not “Widgetized” or widget-aware. What instructions were given to you? Are you working on a theme you’ve done yourself? Take a look around this link – it could prove helpful.

https://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/

If it’s too much jargon to take in I understand – I’m sure someone around here can provide a copy/paste situation for you if needed. It’s just a matter of finding someone who can do that for you ??

I don’t know if this is correct but it looks like there’s an error in calling your config file
Warning: main(../../../wp-config.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/joshbick/public_html/downtowndesmoinesblog/wp-content/themes/magazinestyle-2289/magazinestyle/get_data.php on line 3
If get_data.php is in
/downtowndesmoinesblog/wp-content/themes/magazinestyle-2289/magazinestyle/
and wp-config is under the root then you may need an additional “../”

/downtowndesmoinesblog/wp-content/themes/magazinestyle-2289/magazinestyle/
    ../                ../       ../               ../