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Thanks for the information Cyril, I’m glad I at least understand what’s going on. Maybe in the future I’ll submit my code to one of those rule checking sites before I attempt to drop it on my website.

OK, but then why does my code work as I expect when I run it in a Chrome window (I haven’t tried IE)? Does Chrome not follow W3C?

Well as it turned out, missing DNS entries was not the problem. The problem was a “home.html” file that iPage installs on all web hosts by default until the user installs their website. As a result, DNS finds the site fine, but then the host runs the home.html file instead of index.php, and home.html was responsible for displaying the “Under construction…” banner.

As a suggestion to WordPress, they might want to include a suggestion in their installation instructions to look for a home.html file in their root directory and rename it before attempting to start their site.

Again, thanks for the help.

I “assumed” that iPage would hvae handled all of this as that’s where I purchased both the domain name and the hosting service. Looks like I need to bust their chops. Thanks for the info.

Well here’s the answer to my own question. Windows Grep utility does exactly what I wanted, goes through the entire WordPress tree and finds all the files containing the class reference. This tool is free and can be found at: ‘https://www.wingrep.com/download.htm’.

Is there any way that I can translate the substitution codes into the real classes and ids that they represent? I.e., how can I know what they mean so that I can locate them in the style.css file?

Keith – OK thanks for the assistance.

I wanted to use it on my home page as part of a description of my web site layout. For instance, I inserted this code: ‘<p>And the categories are: <?php the_category(‘ ? ‘) ?> </p>’. Although the paragraph “And the categories are:” displays fine, the category list isn’t getting generated.

Does this mean that I can only use it where the_category function is currently being used?