greypilgrim

Sorry it has taken me a couple days to get back to this. What should the position of #menu be? I tried “normal” and “relative” and it made no difference, or actually it made things worse. Should #footer be positioned in some way? I experimented there, too, and the results weren’t pretty.

That’s OK. I’ll probably take your advice, and as you say maybe someone else knows a better solution.

It didn’t work. Here’s the section of the CSS relevant to the footer, including the bit you just recommended. I’m just an amateur at this; I’ve been learning about PHP and CSS the hard way, through experimenting with themes developed by others.

/* Footer
——————————————– */
#footer {
background-color: inherit;
}

#footer {
padding: 0 0 0 1px;
margin: 0 auto;
float: none;
width: 760px;
clear: both;
}

#footer p {
margin: 0;
padding: 20px 0;
text-align: center;
}

#sk2-footer {
clear:both;
}

I don’t think you can. They are disabled for Safari, which makes the whole “rich editor” kind of unusable.

Thanks! Sorry I didn’t reply sooner; I’ve been away on holiday.

I don’t know if it’s true, but I tend to agree with the previous poster that hosts generally don’t know a thing about blogging software. About two months ago, we switched all our blogs at our community site from b2Evolution to WordPress because our host told us the exact same thing as your host told you. “b2Evolution is inefficient, the load on the server is too great, our server is crashing every day,” etc.

I’d suggest you try to put the onus for fixing the issue back on the host, but they’ll probably just firewall off your blog and shut you down. That’s what our host did until we switched to WordPress. I don’t know what to suggest, except find a new host, one that specializes in blogs maybe.

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Sorry for the flippancy. I’ve been a little frustrated, dealing with problems all week that turned out to be as simply solved as changing themes.

I made three seperate installations of WordPress via Fantastico, and all three installations had the same problems with the default theme. All problems were fixed when the owners changed their themes. Maybe Fantastico is installing a corrupt version of WP?

Funny, but I just changed the theme from “default” to “Windstorm,” and now everything works. There must be something broken in the default theme. I’m going to search the forums and see if this is a general issue with the default theme, or localized to something corrupt in my installation.

Great, this really helped. It seems that WordPress keeps its original “Hello World!” post–the one that appears after a clean install–in the database after importing from b2Evolution. This post is mis-dated and causes a strange “0” month to appear in the archives. I deleted that post and the problem is solved.

Now if I can just fix that pesky RSS “feed failed to load” problem…

Thanks for that. I really did search before posting…I just didn’t realize that was a zero or I might have found what I was looking for!

Thank you. I’m hoping to make the move today or tomorrow.

I’m looking for the same thing. b2evolution has this, and it really cleans up the links and makes them easier to find.

I’m going to mark this thread as resolved. I contacted my host about the DB_password, and instead they just restored my b2 installation from a backup. I still want to move to WordPress, though. I’ve just got to figure out how to do it! The software my host uses to install scripts, Fantastico, won’t let me install WordPress and b2 in the same directory, which as I understand it is necessary for WordPress to import from b2evo. I’m going to dig around in the forums for help with this, but if a search turns up nothing, I may post a new call for help on this matter.

Don’t worry about laughing. I’ll probably feel like laughing, too, if I ever figure this out. Not tonight, though. I’m going to bed, and I’ll pick up this problem again tomorrow, if I get any sleep tonight.