GeodesicDragon

I tried changing the theme to twentyseventeen, but nothing happened.

Looks like I’ll have to send my uncle another email.

Thanks for your help thus far.

How is he hosting it?

I asked him, but he’s been busy with his actual paying work lately, so I’ve not had a reply. I did find a ‘phpinfo’ file on my server, however, and reading it has provided me a whole heap of information — though it might as well be written in Welsh for all the sense it makes to me.

Is there anything in said file that might help?

When you say ‘How is it being hosted?’ do you mean WordPress itself, or PHP? I’m afraid I’m not sure what you are referring to.

To answer your other question, I am using version 4.9.6 of WordPress.

I have also manually updated the two plugins I use – Akismet and Cryout Serious Theme Settings – as well as my theme (Mantra).

Attempting to force WordPress to use the default theme doesn’t work either; I get a message saying ‘The theme directory “mantra” does not exist.’

• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by GeodesicDragon.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by GeodesicDragon.

Thanks!

EDIT: Now he’s asking about the white line above the header image…

I’ve been waiting for help with this issue for far too long. With all due respect, I’ve decided to find another theme to meet my needs, since you don’t seem all that interested in fixing this problem.

Thanks anyway.

Just to let you know, I am still having this problem, even though I am now using Mantra version 1.8.6. WordPress itself is still at Version 3.3.1 – so it can’t be the problem.

I would really like this issue to be resolved, as Mantra is a great theme for my content. The Twenty Eleven theme, while a good substitute, isn’t exactly the best theme ever.

Maybe I need to do something?

I am using WordPress v3.3.1, which is the latest version.

As I said, the theme was working fine before I changed my sidebar from the right to the left of my content.

Yep, that does it.

Can’t believe it was that simple. Thanks!

Changed to a new theme. This post is now irrelevant.

Right, I get it now.

I don’t have permission to create new databases. I’ll have to ask my host to sort that out.

Thanks for your help, and I apologise for being a nuisance.

No, you don’t understand what I am trying to say.

What actual syntax do I use to create the database?

Something along the lines of:

CREATE TABLE wordpress
(
item1 CHAR(50) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
item2 CHAR(50) NOT NULL,
item3 CHAR(35)
);

That didn’t help.

I use MySQL query browser to access my databases.