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As I am a total newbie to all this I did not know that I in fact created a temporary setup. In fact I did. Because I built the site in the WordPress directory that everything came packaged in. I am reading up about it now and how things should have been done – but my site is broken now. Luckily its pretty simple and I kept notes as I went along. So I will rebuild. But am trying to decide whether to build it directly in the public_html and avoid all this drama ie. drag everything out of the WordPress directory after I install, before I apply theme and plugins etc.

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o you have any kind of security setup allowing only your IP to access one thing or another?

I don’t know about the ip thing – I will find out today.

More than that would have to be moved to relocate your installation, but moving anything at all was no way to try to solve whatever you had going on.

Where should the site be if it isn’t in the WordPress directory? Must I take it out if I rebuild and jhave the WP-admin wp-content and wp-includes floating free with all the other wp stuff?

What backups do you have, and what backups might your host have?

Me – no backups – was about to when the site was ready. The host may have something.
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Thanks Leejosepho,I know – this is bothering me. The original problem was that I was the only one who could see the website. The address was *mydomain*/wordpress/, so they told me – in cpanel to take my wpadmin /includes and content out of the WordPress directory and put them in the the public domain. Then it really didn’t work – for me either. Then they told me to put them all back again and its still broken – and now I can’t even see it.All that I’m getting is a backend Index page with ‘Parent directory, wp-admin, wp-content and wp-includes. If I click on wp-admin I get a warning message. In public html I have the WordPress directory with the 3 folders in and then a list of wp-folders beneath this, in amongst which I see wp-load. But I feel I need to do a back up – but what of if its all broken?

Hi Tara – thank you for responding! Before I go your route my web host has asked me to move wp-load into wp-admin folder (as they cautiously and slowly guide me). Does that sound safe?
They haven’t been too bad in the past and are very helpful – but this latest thing they made me do was a bit of a booboo and I want to be careful.
I would also like to know how to back up – or if you can tell me where to read how to back up manually – I don’t think Softaculous is activated in my package … but can find out.

Then I will try your method if the other doesn’t work – but think back up is what needs to happen next.
Thanks again.

Well I just updated the header – that’s all that was missing ….

Hi Paul thanks for that – but I found a way around. I installed a WordPress plugin called Easy Columns and here is the link on how to use it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nECRZxhGODQ

It’s fine for my needs for now – however I may be back here sometime to pick up that code. Cheers

Thanks for that – will go read.

Another thought – where could I alter this display – if possible – in the stylesheet – which template would that be in?

Solved -discovered that the attachments weren’t activated(to cut along story short)

I originally tried removing the widgets (have done this before on my blog) but they kept popping back on the sidebar. I moved them down to the area where you deactivate them – don’t know whether I should have deleted them …. didn’t want to risk that so luckily I came upon another way to solve this. When you create a new page (or even after – you can go and do this) – ‘ADD NEW PAGE’ has a type of sidebar of its own and there I spotted ‘Template’ – pressed down arrow – and it opened the option I was looking for ‘FULL WIDTH PAGE TEMPLATE NO SIDEBAR’ and ‘FRONTPAGE TEMPLATE’ seems to do pretty much the same thing. It’s perfect. The only problem is my login disappeared so now I login as admin ‘manually’. Thanks for your help Siobhan – and please let me know if what I have done is sound and won’t crash later

Thanks so much for that!

Thank you so much for this WPyogi – it worked like a charm! Would I be able to sneak an image in here?

Thank you for that – I installed a plugin – one-click child theme and it worked well. I am now scouting around for how to get rid of the things I don’t want on my website – like comments, all the goodies in the side bar – and to center the whole page – am watching tutorials etc.

Thank you – I installed a plugin One click plug-in for the Child theme – think I grasp that side of things. I shall take a look at the other links – thanks

Another question. I see here under theme management there is a ‘portfolio’ option -along with ‘posts, media comments’ etc. There wasn’t a portfolio option when I blogged as far as I remember? Would this be the same as using my Nextgen gallery plugin and would I be able to put the Portfolio on any page of my chosoing? It seems to act like a post and want to be on the front page. Early days and I am at the pressing all the buttons stage