Kathy_P

Thank you, macmanx. Before finding your reply, I discovered this thread:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=19566

which sent me to this page:

https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

After moving my files, I followed the advice on changing the site url, only I changed everything that had the wrong path to the correct one. In my case, I found three items: siteurl, fileupload_realpath, and home. I imagine it will vary depending on what plugins are installed, etc. The gentleman who runs tamba2 has a lot of clearly written, useful information on WordPress. I highly recommend his site to all WordPress newbies.

Does anyone know if either Sushubh’s or antifuse’s method will work for WordPress 1.5?

Thank you, Moshu–that’s a very interesting link. And I really appreciate all your help.

Thank you, Moshu!

I saw the text “If this file was writeable you could edit it” however, I figured that since I could click in the text and start editing then, apparently, I could edit it. Not so, obviously.

Perhaps the warning might better read “This file is not presently writable. No changes you make will be saved” and include a link to instructions on making it writable, chmod, etc.

As for issue 2.–I am fooling around presently. Also, I tend to save the safe backup copy on my hard drive and fool around with the copy on the server as I want to be able to see my changes in the program. (I don’t know how one could do a local install–that would be interesting!)

Then is any file writable in the WP interface or must it be set manually?

If it must be set manually it might be a good thing for the instructions to point this out during the install. I didn’t even get an error telling me that my changes couldn’t be applied when I was editing. This could end up as a large stumbling block to other new users.

Okay, switched to ftp. Coding change then worked. So, how I thought to change the layout was correct to begin with, the WP interface simply wasn’t doing it. I have to do it with an external editor and then upload.

Can anyone explain that?

Okay . . . something is not working right. I took the advice of Root one step further. I went into wp-admin/theme-editor.php and opened up the stylesheet using that interface. I then selected all of the text in the stylesheet and deleted all of it. I then clicked the view site link. Once the site came up I pressed the refresh button . . . nothing. The site still appears as if it has a style sheet.

Then I go back to the theme editor and–vola!–all of the css I just deleted is back. What is going on? It seems every change I put in using the theme editor will vanish into thin air. (Eeeergggh! And I spent hours typing stuff into that window. Hours of pointless labor.) Why is this so and how might I fix this problem?

Thanks for any help.

Well, I’ve tried so many different ideas I don’t know if I can remember them all. However, all attempts (in their various forms) have been to modify:

.narrowcolumn {
float: left;
padding: 0 0 20px 45px;
margin: 0px 0 0;
width: 450px;
}

And/or:

#sidebar
{
padding: 20px 0 10px 0;
margin-left: 545px;
width: 190px;
}

I have tried making .narrowcolumn float right. I have tried making #sidebar have no margin-left or even no margin-left and a large margin-right. I have tried to modify both .narrowcolumn and #sidebar at the same time.

Nothing. Not a thing. I refresh my browser and I see no change in the visual display. This does not make sense.

I am modifying the CSS from within the WP admin interface and I’m beginning to wonder if this is somehow not taking.

. . . Or maybe I still haven’t changed either .narrowcolumn or #sidebar correctly. Any help would be great.