graham333

Phew, yes I don’t dabble with ftp that often it just came to me to use that.

Yes, I always set a static homepage.

All plug ins are disabled, these are the ones that I have installed,
please advise if there are any there that may cause a prob.
Growmap Anti Spambot ,
Google XML Sitemaps,
Platinum SEO,
Missing Data Platinum SEO Pack,
PC Robots.txt
Robots Meta
SEO Slugs
Snapshot Backup
W3 Total Cache
WassUp
WP-Optimize
All in one Favicon,
cbnet Ping Optimizer

WP No Category Base, this is the one that worries me most is it ok to use?

Hello again,

Sorry, Here is my hta.access I tried to use cpanel, found it using ftp.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

It appears I do not have a .hta access file for this site, I have looked all through the files for this site is there supposed to be one?

I did switch themes, I used Socrates because I know this is a good one, but it did not make any difference to the other browsers.

here is my site, this is brand new btw only launched last Sunday.
https://bestriftguide.org

Thanks for the heads-up about the so-called seo ‘experts’, as per usual they do not seem to know what they are talking about ??

Thank you so much Ipstenu I will get right on it.

BTW, yes I emptied the browsers every time I tried something different.

Thanks for your reply Ipstenu,

Looks like I have been misinformed about the use of /%postname%/, and I would imagine millions of others too.

Ok, this morning I deactivated all plugins and re-installed 3.1.1. automatically.

Once again the site now works but ONLY in Firefox, both IE and Opera browsers return a not found, this is all beyond me but it strikes me 3.1.1 is just not stable and has a bug?

I tried the fancy permalinks as you suggested, but it made no difference in IE and Opera, in any event, I need short urls and really want to avoid ‘category’ appearing if possible.
.hta access is beyond me I’m afraid I would not know if it was right or not.

I am very patient but this is turning into a nightmare, so in the absence of a fix my question has now changed to:

What is the procedure to install an earlier version of 3.1?
I am assuming I have to do it manually via FTP, do I delete all the wp files associated with this site first, or do I only need to replace certain files.
Or can I just replace the whole lot file for file with ftp?

Your help would be much appreciated as this is not something I have attempted before and I don’t want to mess things up.

Thanks guys

Quick update on this Autoblog theme.

This one is for coders only, as I cannot get rid of the cr*p in the sidebars either, shame.

Oh well back to the drawing board.

Thanks very much for trying to help Rev, but it looks like it I have got in too deep here this is way over my head.

Thanks anyway. ??

Mods: Sorry guys I have pasted a large block of code, before Rev told me not to paste a large block of code. ??

Hi Rev (reverend?)

Yes you got it, the site title displayed on my site, I am aware titles and headers can get mixed up so that’s why I specified site title.

Please forgive my ignorance I really have no idea about what makes Wp tick, so I see from what you said there I have the wrong end of the stick.

So am I able to change what’s displayed or am I dipping a toe in the murky waters of CSS or something here?

Thanks for trying to help.

Hey thanks alchymyth that was very quick.

OK, I’ll try again and simplify my question to remove any misunderstanding.
Is it possible to make the Site Title different so that it is not the same on all pages/posts?