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It was something really odd with how wordpress — OR I??? — was generating the URLs for the links to the pdf’s I uploaded via wordpress. Some had wp-admin in the link versus wp-content?? Not sure how that happened. I just trashed all the links, started over and fidgeted with the ones that had wp-admin. Some of the original links just had a full URL to the file and not the extra URL info that wordpress appears to put in. Those did not function. Just odd… Not sure what happened, but it’s working now. Thanks.

It has something to do with the pdf file links I added. I removed them and it posted just fine??? Any ideas? I need to link to these pdf’s… Going to try a few things, but if anyone has ideas, please share.

nothing… i haven’t installed any plugins

this is the first time I created links to pdf files I’ve uploaded, but where it’s breaking and creating an error (best I can tell) doesn’t make sense??

on more useless post — i was watching wargames over the weekend (matthew broderick — wow, that movie is 23 years old!!!) and he pulled out the 5.25 floppy and I was like “wow, i forgot how big those things were!”

lol, why don’t you go ahead and restore that 1984 backup? THANKS!!

They weren’t editable at 644… so they’re at 666 and if some hacker wants to be a jerk so be it..

i just don’t know what the heck it means… ?? I have JUST the files under the blix folder set at that. Will 644 still work?

-K

That did it! I changed permissions of template files to 666. is that ok??? That’s what seemed to work. question marks were there when i access file that way and i just removed them. all is well. let me know if those permissions are ok or if they should be something else.

i do have access to the db if needed.

i am working directly on the index file in textpad (which i’ve heard is a really good, safe editor). does that count? I’m not editing the files online. i’m editing and then uploading. I tried following instructions to change permissions so i can edit online, but it didn’t seem to work. Let me know what you prefer for me to do. Won’t email til you tell me to. THANK YOU!!!!

ps — just checked to make sure my ftp connection was on ascii and it was on binary (not sure why). re-uploaded in ascii and no difference.

EDITED: I was just able to get permissions working. will try option 1 and then email if it doesn’t work.

well, back to this again… so i changed the charset and it fixed the homepage. I hadn’t looked at it again til i started working on it today. It had taken the odd characters out of the homepage… but then ADDED characters to the normal blog entries! go figure. I tried all different charsets and couldn’t get anything to work. Remember, this is blix and you said it was screwy…

Take a look at https://www.retrieverretreat.com/site (and it’s the static text right there in the main content area before the most recent entries below it). I tried fudging around with it with what little I know of php, but couldn’t get anything to work. I can’t come up with any good reason for the “?s” to be where they are??? Makes no sense. Like they’re just randomly thrown in there.

Is there any way to otherwise insert the text there? I’m about to give up and make it a graphic and call it in that way…

Thanks in advance.

-K

You guys rock! I’ve never had everything work so smoothly when I needed help on dumb stuff like this. I changed the charset and it’s fine. Thanks!

ps — composing in textpad and uploading via ftp

Will try the suggestions. I had it set up with ‘s and it did the same thing. Very strange… Then removed p’s figuring <br>’s were as simple as I could get. ??

So far so good with this script. It’s wonderful.

-K

sounds great, thanks again. it’s been a pleasure and sorry for the double post!

I switched the permalinks to the standard. I just thought the dates thing would be helpful. But trashed it. That got the category links working…

I’m pretty sure that did the whole thing. Thanks for the very quick response.