GeekNJ

I’m working on a brand new blog and it’s using the WP provided 2013 template and I don’t show any prev or next month in calendar view. The only plug-in active is Askimet and there are no other plug-ins installed. There have been no changes to the out of box WP provided 2013 theme.

I don’t have the site published yet so I can’t provide a link, but it seems to be base functionality that isn’t working or there’s some option/configuration I haven’t found yet?

UPDATE: I see the next/prev month displayed UNDER the calendar view page and not above it as the screenshots on the plug-in page show. Is there a setting to control that? I’d prefer it be both above/below but if it can only exist in 1 place, I’d prefer it above.

This is freaky. I have 2 wordpress sites hosted on the same provider (NetFirms) under 2 different domains and they are “blank”. They both just show:

IE4

when I go to the site or the wp-admin page. What’s up with that?

Update: Mine appears to be a hosting issue as I can’t get into MyPHPAdmin as it throws a 500 error. Hopefully it will get resolved shortly.

When you upgraded, since you were using Kubrick, did you follow any of the items outlined at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Themes#Process for Kubrick?

I didn’t use any images in my 1.2 blog, and I was using a 2 column layout so I’m just taking some stabs here.

Seems to be the images are blowing the alignment. You made the one image smaller (Boston) but not the State of the Union ones.

If I go to a specific month for archives, it displays fine – see https://www.theviewfrommysofa.com/?m=200410

If I go to one with the large images, it’s sort of ok, but off a bit – see https://www.theviewfrommysofa.com/?p=54

My guess is the large (width) pictures are blowing the template and throwing everything off.

How about replacing the large images with ones that are say 420 wide or less?

Looks like you were using the default style.css (and it validates) so what did you change off the base install? Any files?

Did you replace your #menu with the one above? Does it still not show up on the right of the page?

Try the following for your #menu in style.css:

#menu {
background: transparent;
/* padding: 20px 0 10px 20px; */
position: absolute;
right: 0px;
top: 0;
width: 160px;
margin-left: -160px;
float: left;
text-align: left;
}

Valid syntactically and valid logically are 2 separate things ??

If I remove the margin-left: -160px; line, it’s all there, just underneath the posts. It’s actually there with the -160px line but “off the page”.

Excellent. I didn’t even notice the submenu of “tabs” under the Links option in admin.

Fixed things right up – thanks again!!

I’m not a CSS wiz, but the following looks odd to me:

#menu {
width: 160px;
margin-left: -160px;
float: left;
text-align: left;
background: transparent;
}

First, you should look to correct all style sheet errors:
https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmireldar.elvenbook.com%2Fwp-content%2Fthemes%2FCarrots%2Fstyle.css&usermedium=all

What is the “html” in the tag for? Try removing that. Keep a backup copy.

There wasn’t any reason to restore the MySQL files. They were backed up just in case.

Anyway, https://jaycie.empty-tears.net/wordpress/index.php is really the default URL for your site and when I go there it asks me to save the index.php file vs execute it.

Did you find anything in other posts here when you search for “blank” (minus the quotes) in the support forum? https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=22924 is one thread.

I did my upgrade by backing up my wp_ tables, modifying the backup script (replace wp_ with wp15_) to create tables called wp15_ and creating them in the database with the existing 1.2 content. I then copied my 1.2 directory and created a new 1.5 directory. I modified the siteurl and home values in the wp15_options table to point to the new directory.

At this point, going to the 1.5 version (though it’s still 1.2) of the site should work just like the 1.2 version. When I verified that, I went and upgraded that WordPress instance following the instructions at https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Upgrade_1.2_to_1.5 . I could then work out any issues I found (like with RSS, etc).

Since I’m the only author there were no missed posts and there were no comments added that I had to worry about pulling over from the 1.2 to 1.5 version.

When I was ready to cut over to 1.5, I modified the siteurl and home url in the wp15_options table to point to the current production directory, renamed the current production directory to another name and renamed the 1.5 directory to the current production name and everything worked like a charm with no outage time or worries during the upgrade.

David

Yup, looks good now, other then the color is a bit light for my tastes.