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I manually checked the database and found that in the table wn_blogs there was an entry for the (sub)domain blog.thedomain.net — perhaps from before I moved the blog to the root directory.
I crossed my fingers and edited this to read ‘thedommain.net,” and my dashboard, etc., as well as the site came back up.
It looks okay.

Thanks for the reply.

A lot of work has been put into the test setup — modification of theme, as well as actual posts that are supposed to be ported over to the real site.

With all the glitches I’ve run into, I think I’ll have to do another test setup, and move the theme, posts, etc. into it before moving it to an active, live site that must not have significant downtime.

Okay, so I changed my wp-config file as suggested, and I changed my .htaccess file as suggested:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $1 [L]
RewriteRule  ^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(.*\.php)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

Result is that my WordPress install is totally broken.
(Lucky it’s only on a test setup, but I do need to know how to do it on the real setup!)

Duh! Thanks! ??

Okay, so now I have a new issue showing up under Tools-Network:

I moved the blog successfully from a sub-domain to the root, but the code under Network suggests to add this to wp-config.php:

define( 'MULTISITE', true );
define( 'SUBDOMAIN_INSTALL', false );
$base = '/';
define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'blog.domain.net' );
define( 'PATH_CURRENT_SITE', '/' );
define( 'SITE_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );
define( 'BLOG_ID_CURRENT_SITE', 1 );

But I moved the blog to the root (/public_html). It is no longer in blog.domain.net

Oh, yeah .. I got the idea from the codex that I can’t use subdomains, but must use subdirectories. Maybe the code in the actual install knows better, and it suggests that my current blog should go into the subdomain?

Suggestions?

Thanks, Ipstenu ??

So the answer too my query is that it’s a bug, and it’s being worked on. I’m looking forward to the solution. Hope it’s soon!!

I made them private by choosing the “private” option for the page, rather than the public one. (Now that’s a great feature — am just wishing that private pages had the same relationship to each other as public pages.)

(And I edited roles [plugin] to give certain ones the privilege to read “private” pages.)

You didn’t give enough information re your problem.

Did you create the page in WordPress, or did you paste it in from another program? (If you pasted it into a WordPress page, it could be that some code in your pasted material prevents it from displaying. It happens often enough. ?? )

A side note on the content of your “About Me” page:
It begins with “Duce Real” and ends with “Duce Real,” but in the middle it talks about a guy named “Antoine,” without any explanation of how the two relate. ??

Cool design ??

Umm … why are you “downloading” plugins? If the plugins are listed on the www.ads-software.com site (you can see them when you click on “Plugins” “Add new” in your Dashboard), you don’t have to “download” them. You can just choose to “Install” them.

Much simpler ??

Why don’t you set up a free blog at WordPress.com? That way you don’t need to pay for hosting, and you have most of the options of a self-hosted blog.

At WordPress.com, you can learn as you go. And, if you should ever want to host your blog yourself on your own domain, that’s also an option. If you are happy with WordPress.com, you can just point a domain to your blog there.

Thought I’d done that! I’ll try again ..

Thanks again for your very helpful posts.

I trust that this will be helpful for others as well.

Thank you so much, Douglas! This information was exactly what I was looking for!

Now I have another question: It seems that tags are kept in the “terms” database, along with categories. So I cannot have the same tag on a post as a category name.

Am I understanding this correctly?

Or does it work to create a category and then use the same tag for a post?

Come to think of it, if I use the correct cat, I won’t need the same tag, will I?

Again, thanks so much for the help. If you can clarify further, that would be lovely.

By the way, I use WordPress because I’m not a “techie.” My host uses CPanel and I can access the site via FTP (i.e. Filezilla)But I have no clue where WordPress puts the actual data I put in — the posts, categories and tags.
When I look at the files that show up, they all seem to be the files that make WordPress work, rather than the data itself.

Any help would be appreciated — e.g. how do I access the WordPress data from the back end?

Okay, just to be sure, I renamed the plugin directory. I still don’t get previews of drafts and “pending.”

Published posts preview just fine. However, if I “unpublish” a post to change its status to “draft” or “pending,” I can no longer “preview” it.

By the way, my permalinks are the default — not “pretty,” since those stopped working too, once I updated to WordPress 3.0. But that’s another issue …

Does anybody have any suggestions of what else I can do? Is this an uncommon problem?

Thanks so much. It worked ??