lone007

thanks Handy. email sent. and thanks for going the extra mile.

Oh right, I forbot about vBulletin too. It would be nice to have avatars and be able to subscribe to a thread or a forum via email as well as a general chat. It’s all the other little things that could help build a community. Not to say that WP isn’t a community but there can always be more.

Hmmm…I checked that but there is no htaccess file in my blog root directory. I made sure that my FTP client revealed all hidden files but still no file. Should I just make another htaccess file for the blog root directory?

But of course ??

the necessary theme switcher is found here; https://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/ThemeSwitcher

there was a theme switcher found here; https://wp-plugins.net/plugin/theme-switcher/

but the site didn’t load properly when I clicked on it.

I finally figured it out. It took me awhile but I found the appropriate theme switcher tool over at the https://dev.wp-plugins.org site.

There was another theme switcher tool at another site listed but it didn’t work.

and now I know. i do appreciate your patience.

Kaf,
the only problem with that solution [and i just did it] is that the homepage now has the “read more” permalink at the bottom of it. so it still makes it look like a blog entry of sorts.

actually, these are my sites. not clients. but fair question to ask.

by the way, I’m getting a 404 page error when I try to click on a blog entry https://venusgolfing.com/blog/1999/11/30/hello-world/

any ideas on the culprit?

Moshu,
When you asked about whether files were writable, that made me realize that I had to alter the .htaccess and index.php files to 666. That fixed the problem.

I don’t mean to be laconic about this stuff, but I am trying my best as I realize folks like you are here quite often trying to help folks like me for free, no less.

Thank you for your patience.

actually, no, they are not working either.

i’m not sure. I mean, when I set it to default, they seem fine. But if I set it to one of the other options, i get the page error. any thoughts?

yeah, i just noticed that my cpanel and my hosting company, A Small Orange,just upgraded to WP2.0 now. So now, even future sites that I host on WP, I won’t have to go through the tedious process of manually installing and uploading the files because my hosting was on 1.5

i just installed it into my main root, ie; https://www.domain.com

in my ftp, i saw some folders name CGI bin and _vti_cnf, etc… so I don’t know if those should be deleted too.

I decided to delete certain plugins from the FTP and it still doesn’t work.

by the way, a couple days ago I had some issues whereby my site would automatically switch to some other theme as well w/o my approval. I had to go back in and switch back to the theme I originally had.

Perhaps these are symptoms of something bigger?