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Everything stabilized by restoring the default .htaccess file for a while and disabling BPS. Then I ran the BPS setup wizard again and updated the root and specific htaccess securities.

Everything is fine now, thank you. Just to comment that your plugin is wonderfully adaptable, it is really good to be able to repair issues and not compound them by rerunning a process.

Thanks for the help.

Thanks, you are right, that was ambiguous, sorry. I meant that doing these things sorted out all the problems but BPS was still disabled, so no security. I just wasn’t sure if it was safe to just reactivate the plugin folder given that I had manually changed back to the basic .htaccess. I think I’ll clean house then put it back.

Thanks for quick reply.

Thanks. Yes, the theme I use, like so many, has a long list of defined shortcodes for general use. When I put your shortcode directly inside a formatting shortcode on the page nothing displays at all. But when I put your shortcode into a widget area sidebar first, and then use the theme’s shortcode for putting that sidebar into the page, it does work.

Odd really. It seems to dislike being nested just one level down but is quite happy if nested two levels down. This might have nothing to do with your shortcode of course, it could be a theme issue or just a limitation of shortcodes.

As it happens I have taken this issue in a slightly different direction now – I was aiming to improve access to certain types of content and decided that I was taking the easy way out of an issue that was better resolved through the basic information architecture.

The site is bourne.gb.com

Thank you for this. Appreciate the response

This might be a good start if I understood the suggestions better. The site is on shared hosting, the upsizing of apache memory was provided by the host.

The… hold on a minute…

You stupid sod Chris….

Multisite, max file upload, set just below the real value for 2mb instead of 200, so it comes up as a limit of 1mb. How the heck did I forget that one!

I’ve had senior moments before, I’ve even been accused of having blonde moments, but I’ve never had a Homer Simpson moment before… Doh!

this doesn’t seem to be database related, the default theme doesn’t have the problem so I guess this tells me where the fault lies.

Still,any advice welcome.

Yeah, I guess you are spot on with that one Andrea. No problem, I’ll just bight my tongue and go back to phpmyadmin. Thanks for the advice guys

Thank you. I’ll check it out.

My mistake, wp-DBManager.

This is the source https://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-dbmanager

Shame, this is a sweet plugin which does so much more than backups. And makes a much better fist of the interface than phpmyadmin which remains locked into a hideous and unnecessary complexity. It’s about as friendly as a cornered rodent.

Thanks for the advice Andrea.

Incidentally, off topic but mentioned because I know you have been very involved with it. The sitewide tags plugin has been a real boon. I nearly didn’t use it because of what it is called, just couldn’t see why anything with that name would address the fundamental issue of calling posts from networked sites that is such an obvious weakness of V3. But it got me over a huge hurdle with an artists networking site.

Got it. For some reason the compound rule was breaking it. When the style is declared for each of the blog, category and archive classes separately it works.

Thanks guys for all your help.

Good idea, should have been that. But no change. The html shows that the body classes are working ok but the css still isn’t kicking in.

Ok, the body_classes is being called in the header.php body section as expected. But the css still isn’t picking up. I added the following to the styles.css

body .blog #content .hentry,
body .archive #content .hentry,
body .category #content .hentry:{
	border-top: 1px solid #E7E8DF;
	margin-top: 0;
	margin-right: 0;
	margin-bottom: 48px;
	box-shadow: 0px 5px 7px 0px #9B9C96;
	-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 5px 7px 0px #9B9C96;
	-moz-box-shadow: 0px 5px 7px 0px #9B9C96;
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.dropShadow(color=#9B9C96, offX=0, offY=5, positive=true);
	padding: 10px;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #999;
	}

Ooh, it’s turning into a chat! Thanks hedronist. Thought I mentioned that I’ve used all the forms of id, including the page id (which is pretty easy with the plugins that display them properly). This was before the problem appeared.

Esmi, thanks. One of the things that has confused me about twentyten is that posts and pages seem not to be distinguished from each other in the classes. I have been resetting the .hentry class but am unsure if this differs in terms of defining blog posts from the .entry class. The nomenclature in twentyten, for such a simple theme, is oddly obscure. It even took me a moment to realise that menus are defined by the term ‘access’.

But I note that the .blog and .archive classes are not used in the style.css, is this what you mean? I’ll give it a go because this is much closer to my normal way of working.

Thanks again. But it’s not this, it does it, or doesn’t do it no matter what form of ref I put in there, title, tag or id. I thought at first it had to be to do with the location of the header.php or the post.css, but tried them both in both the parent and child folders. Then I tested to see if something in the cascade was busted and the post.css was being overruled by the style.css, but post.css doesn’t appear anywhere in the heirarchy in firebug. Hence my stumpedness.

At present I have resolved this, slightly resentfully at my ignorance, by using a plugin that puts css rules inline with the page. But I hate this as a solution because it just bypasses the problem and I really want to learn to solve it.