jpozadzides

This is a seriously frustrating issue. My server is running a 3.X version of MySQL, which worked perfectly fine with every version of WordPress up till now.

Obviously the requirement was switched to 4.X+ for the 2.1 release and it did not state that change anywhere on the upgrade documentation.

This is a MAJOR oversight and it caused a lot of headache here for me.

Someone needs to very quickly add a clear note about the database requirement change to spare all the others out there this pain. Also, it would be helpful if we could get access to the 2.0.7 download again.

John

I’ve managed to accomplish #1 by hacking the index.php file in the wp-admin directory. So, I no longer need assistance with that.

I’m going to try to work on #3 next… but there is no way I’ll ever get #2 without some assistance.

Thanks,

John

I answered my first question. I found the solution to be entirely within the style.css sheet.

I got my Post title links to all be blue by doing the following:

Edit style.css as follows:
Change:
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a, h2 a:hover, h3 a:hover {
color: #06c;
text-decoration: none;
}
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To:
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a, h2 a, h3 a {
color: #06c;
text-decoration: none;
}
—————————–
In other words, remove the “:hover” from h2 and h3. Formerly this told the system to turn the links blue only when the mouse was hovering over them. By removing them, they turn blue permanently.

Then change:
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h2, h2 a, h2 a:visited, h3, h3 a, h3 a:visited {
color: #333;
}
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to
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h2, h3 {
color: #333;
}
—————————–
In other words, remove everything from the first line except “h2, h3”. Formerly this was changing all of the visited Post’s title pages black. After editing only the Heading level 2 & 3s that are not links will be black.

Finally add the following anywhere within the sheet:
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a, h2 a:visited, h3 a:visited {
color: maroon}
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This turns any visited link maroon.

Now, if someone could just help me with how to do my original #2 it would be great.

John

Ok. Replying to my own post here. I figured out what is breaking the formatting of the page.

The built-in Visual Rich Editor was adding in tags like this: <div />

I know that’s not valid HTML, but it might be valid XML or something. Perhaps someone else knows. But what I do know is that it screws up rendering on the page. I removed all of those, and the problem disappears.