lithium350

Fixed. Awesome. Thanks.

Yeah. Through my theme under “layout” there is a “custom.css” section. This is everything that is in it.

.entry-title a {
	color:#000;
}

.entry-title a:hover {
	color:#787ca1;
}

/* LIST #4 */
#list4 { width:320px; font-family:Georgia, Times, serif; font-size:15px; }
#list4 ul { list-style: none; }
#list4 ul li { }
#list4 ul li a { display:block; text-decoration:none; color:#ffffff; background-color:#1f2663; line-height:30px;
  border-bottom-style:solid; border-bottom-width:1px; border-bottom-color:#CCCCCC; padding-left:10px; cursor:pointer; }
#list4 ul li a:hover { color:#e3e3e3; background-image:url(../images/hover.png); background-repeat:repeat-x; }
#list4 ul li a strong { margin-right:10px; }

/* LIST #8 */
#list8 {  }
#list8 ul { list-style:none; }
#list8 ul li { font-family:Georgia,serif,Times; font-size:18px; }
#list8 ul li a { display:block; width:300px; height:28px; background-color:#333; border-left:5px solid #222; border-right:5px solid #222; padding-left:10px;
  text-decoration:none; color:#bfe1f1; }
#list8 ul li a:hover {  -moz-transform:rotate(-5deg); -moz-box-shadow:10px 10px 20px #000000;
  -webkit-transform:rotate(-5deg); -webkit-box-shadow:10px 10px 20px #000000;
  transform:rotate(-5deg); box-shadow:10px 10px 20px #000000; }

/* LIST #9 */
#list9 {  }
#list9 ul {
  list-style-type: none;
  background: #1f2663;
  background: -moz-linear-gradient(#1f2663, #626791);
  background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#1f2663), to(#626791));
  background: -webkit-linear-gradient(#1f2663, #626791);
  background: -o-linear-gradient(#1f2663, #626791);
  background: -ms-linear-gradient(#1f2663, #626791);
  background: linear-gradient(#1f2663, #626791);
  margin: 0;
  padding: 8px;
  -moz-border-radius: 15px;
  border-radius: 15px;
}
}

#list9 li {
  font: 200 18px/1.5 Helvetica, Verdana, sans-serif;
  border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;
}

#list9 li:last-child {
  border: none;
}

#list9 li a {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #ffffff;
  display: block;
  width: 325px;

  -webkit-transition: font-size 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease;
  -moz-transition: font-size 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease;
  -o-transition: font-size 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease;
  -ms-transition: font-size 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease;
  transition: font-size 0.3s ease, background-color 0.3s ease;
}

#list9 li a:hover {
  font-size: 18px;
  background: #686868;
}

h1{
  position: relative;
  margin-left: -22px; /* 15px padding + 7px border ribbon shadow*/
  margin-right: -22px;
  padding: 15px;
  background: #1f2663;
  -moz-border-radius: 15px;
  border-radius: 15px;
  font-variant:small-caps;
  background: -moz-linear-gradient(#1f2663, #626791);
  background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#1f2663), to(#626791));
  background: -webkit-linear-gradient(#1f2663, #626791);
  background: -o-linear-gradient(#1f2663, #626791);
  background: -ms-linear-gradient(#1f2663, #626791);
  background: linear-gradient(#1f2663, #626791);
  -webkit-box-shadow: 0 -1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.8) inset;
  -moz-box-shadow: 0 -1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.8) inset;
  box-shadow: 0 -1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.8) inset;
  text-shadow: 0 1px 0 #fff;
}

h1 { text-align: center
}
h1:before, h1:after{
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  bottom: -6px;
  content:'';
  border-top: 6px solid #555;
  border-left: 6px solid transparent;
}

h1:before{
  border-top: 6px solid #555;
  border-right: 6px solid transparent;
  border-left: none;
  left: auto;
  right: 0;
  bottom: -6px;
}
#slider .hentry {
	margin:0;
	box-shadow:none;
	background:none;
	border:none;
	color:#gggggg;
	text-align:right;
}

#slider .wp-post-image,
#slider .entry-attachment {
	position:relative;
	top:0;
	left:0;
	width:100%;
}

#slider .entry-attachment {
	z-index: 1;
}

#slider ul li:first-child .entry-container {
	display: block;
}

#slider .entry-title {
	display: none;
	position:absolute;
	top:32%;
	right:0;
	z-index:1;
	float:right;
	float:right;
	margin:0;
	font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif;
	font-size:72px;
	line-height:1.62em;
        color: #000;
}

#slider .entry-title a {
	display:block;
	padding:10px 20px;
	background:rgba(0, 0, 0, .15);
	color:#fff;
}

#slider .entry-summary {
	clear: both;
	float:right;
	max-width: 61.8%;
	min-width: 324px;
	padding:10px 20px;
	background:rgba(0, 0, 0, .15);
}

#slider .entry-summary .entry-attachment {
	position:static;
	max-width:100%;
	height:auto;
	padding:0;
	background:none;
}

#slider .entry-attachment,
#slider .entry-attachment p {
	margin-bottom:0;
}

Nothing. It already has a site title. When I get rid of the site title, nothing changes.

FIXED!!!!!

It turns out that in an attempt to update my php through .htaccess, I screwed up my whole site. However, once .htaccess was fixed, everything worked.

Then I exported/imported my site to a new MySQL 5.0 database and everything works, even the admin section of 3.2.1-

Thanks for all of your help. a classic case of when you change two things but assume it was the wrong one that caused you problems… should have known it was .htaccess.

I’m not sure what you mean by the changes.

I have a back up of my WordPress files (WP-Content, WP-Control, etc.) from my FTP folder, from before I upgraded to WP 3.2.1

The SQL database backup I did yesterday, so it was after I had changed my WP-Config file.

Is that what you are asking?

I appreciate your help and I did not take any offense to the question, it was a legitimate one.

To start from the beginning, I had wanted to install WordPress version 3.2.1 on https://www.milwaukee-business-lawyer.com. When I did so, the site continued to work, but the wp-admin would not let me login any more because I was running a 4.0 version of SQL (which I understand to be the same or at least linked to the PHP version). So, I tried to update the php or sql version from 5.0 to 4.0 by changing the .htaccess file as recommended by 1and1. It did not work, so I tried my ill fated attempt to simply move the site to a new 5.0 database (in my naivete I did not export/import the database, so of course it did not work).

Thus, I assumed that simply changing the login back to the old database would mean that it would work again as it had (allowing the site to be up but preventing me access to wp-admin)

The more I read about this though, the less it makes sense. I have gone back and double checked my login credentials for the wp-config as related to my old database, and everything is right. In fact, I changed the password through my phpAdmin with 1and1 just to make sure everything was right (and of course changed it on wp-config).

Everything I read tells me WP is forgiving about these things, and as long as the domain is the same it doesn’t care what Database it points to, as long as the data is there.

Even if the database is wrong, shouldn’t my site still show up just without any content, only the formatting contained within WP-Content on the FTP server?

I am really at a loss here because the data is there, and the login information is right, not sure where to go from here.

I did it because I’m an idiot and didn’t understand how these sites actually work. I thought I was clever and it was a shortcut to having an SQL database for my site that was 5.0 rather than 4.0.

To answer your questions-
I emailed that address and it bounced back as undeliverable. I have contacted my servers technical support.

I did not import the data from the old DB to the new DB.

I have backed up a copy of the old DB.

The old DB still exists.

It still doesn’t make sense to me, is it a WP registration thing?

If the DB is still there and WP-Config has the right login info, why doesn’t it work?

Why would pointing it to a different incorrect DB for a minute mean it can no longer log in to the old DB?

Thanks for your help.

If the old DB is still there, with all my data still there,

errr I meant https://www.WisconsinSecuritiesFraud.com has SQL of 5.0, can’t even keep track of the proper name of my website…

That is a keen observation. I went back and looked at the “mysql” administration and it seems that I do have SQL 5.0 for https://www.SecuritiesFraudLawyer.com but 4.0 for https://www.Milwaukee-Business-Lawyer.com

Sometimes it takes a second set of eyes to see the problem. Thanks for pointing it out. I suppose I will contact my web host, 1and1.com and see what they have to say, unless anyone has any suggestions as to how I upgrade the SQL.

Thanks,