Mark McKibben

By default, WordPress sends everything out over port 80. Your site is only accessible over port 8080. The them you are using is looking at https://www.yardapple.com/wp-content/themes/default/style.css but it should be looking at https://www.yardapple.com:8080/wp-content/themes/default/style.css

For tracking down these sort of CSS problems, your best friend is Firefox with the Web Developer extension installed. It allows you to edit your CSS and see the results on the fly. Without a link to your site to see the exact CSS you are using; it will be nigh impossible for people to solve this for you. To take a guess at the problem; I’d try editting the following part of the CSS to include the font-size you want.
#sidebar ul li {
margin: 0.5em 0 0 0;
padding: 0;
}
#sidebar li a:link, #sidebar li a:visited {
color: #8a3207;
text-decoration: none;
border:none;
}
#sidebar li a:hover {
color: #753206;
text-decoration:underline;
border:none;
}

Exhibit is available from https://redalt.com/downloads/ and that site appears to be working fine.

Sounds like something in your CSS is borked. You mentioned reuploading various PHP files, but did you make any chances to the CSS?

Depends on where you live. In the US, that would probably fall under the fair-use doctrine.

Since PDFs are not natively supported by most browsers (e.g. they usually require a plugin to be displayed in the browser); there’s no guaranteed way to do this. You’d probably be better off displaying a JPG or a GIF of the pattern that and make that image a link to the actual PDF.

Check out Podz’s tutorial on restoring your data.

It took roughly 6-7 seconds to get the full page up on my screen.

I’m in Iowa (U.S.) and browsing the web via a terminal server. If I could browse directly, I think that’d knock a couple of seconds off the load time. If I remember, I’ll try checking when I go home for lunch.

You could try installing a WP-Cache. I’ve heard that it enables WordPress to withstand a slashdotting.

It’s hard to tell exactly what’s going on at this point with your list’o’links without a URL to the site your working on. But you can probably fix the remaining problems by adjusting your CSS.

In your template, there’s a tag which generates your list of links. Since I don’t know what template you are using; I cannot say which one. The Codex describes several tags which generate the list of links. Probably, you’ll want to use the get_links_list.

Maybe try replacing:
<p class="post-date"><?php the_time('D j M Y'); ?>

With:
<p class="post-date"><img src="/pix/post<?php the_ID(); ?>.jpg" width="50" height="50" />

In this case your images should be named postXXX.jpg (where XXX is the ID of the post) and should be in https://www.yourdomainname.com/pix/

Doh! Nitallica beat me to the answer. ??

How the links are displayed depends on which tag was used in the theme you have. If you want it to be more organized, take a look at the Link tags available in the Codex

I’d try:
apt-get update
apt-get install mysql-common mysql-client mysql-server php4-mysql

The links aren’t stored in a specific file that you can edit like that. They’re stored in your MySQL database. You’ll need something like phpMyAdmin on your server in order to go into the database and edit the IDs.

Or you could try using one of the other tags for links: get_links, wp_get_linksbyname or get_linksbyname.