marjorie

Where do I find .htaccess? I am using FileZilla (downloaded it tonight just for this purpose) and I have “show hidden files” checked in “view.” I have looked in all the directories & subdirectories.

Yes, michaelper22! Ain’t hindsight great!

I learned to read the very bottom of WordPress in the Admin console. I learned that deactivation is not enough; deletion is cleaner. I learned that when backing out of a plugin, one must remove changes made to prior templates before activating another plugin.

I have confirmed that I am using WordPress 2.0.5.

I think the problem I was having was caused by my having activated Breadcrumb Nav XP (mentioned above by vkaryl) first. It did work, but I was having trouble putting the code in the proper place in the templates. My frustration level was stressed. So I decided to try URI Crumb. I deactivated Breadcrumb Nav XP, forgetting to change the template (I only had changed single.php). Then I activated URI Crumb <i>before</i> modifying the template.

Thank you Kimmo for your response.

I do not know how to tell what version of WordPress I have — and I have been looking to find that information, but I believe it is the latest, so it should be 2.0.5.

I worked until the wee hours of the morning building a new site. Now that I have slept and am awake, I just noticed a message at the bottom of the plugins page of the new installation:
“If something goes wrong with a plugin and you can’t use WordPress, delete or rename that file in the wp-content/plugins directory and it will be automatically deactivated.”

So I just deleted the plugin from the plugins folder and instantly, the error was gone. My files are now accessible and I can use the Admin screens once again. No more error. I only wish someone had told me that last night before I rebuilt most of the blog.

I read in the support messages of one person who keeps a copy of WordPress on the side for use to test plugins before he uses them on his actual site. This is not a bad idea as one knows not only that the plugin works, but also that any problem is with the interaction of plugins, not the plugin itself. I will try this approach.

I will leave the issue unresolved just until I can do some more checking on the URI Crumb plugin and hopefully find the conflict (probably between URI Crumb and another plugin) and post it here as the resolution. If I cannot do that checking today, I will be able to do it on Saturday. It would be better for the community as well as me to know the problem.

Got my API key and am using the same one as before. Please let me know if you know anything about the error message in the first post.

New blog
Old one waiting for resolution before deletion
Hopefully, I can learn what happened.

I have rebuilt my site in another place. Now what do I do about my API key? I don’t remember the one I had. I don’t really need another one.

I was waiting to delete the previous site to see if I could learn what happened. I won’t keep two sites running.

This day has been a nightmare!!!

No one has a clue as to what the error message I am getting means?

So did that resolve your situation?

You can get Adhesive now
https://www.chait.net/index.php?p=238

There is a link in this post to where you can get it.
Get it here

I just got it there!

It sounds as if you may interested in “Sticky Posts” where the first (or some other) post stays at the top. Most bloggers understand that the most recent post is on top and that is what they expect.

For those people who happen upon your site and do not know that the most recent post is first, you could explain in a “Sticky Post” that if they want to start at the beginning, they can by following a link you put in the post.

Unfortunately, the Adhesive plugin for WordPress is on a server that crashed, but Owen Winkler is putting it back together, so check this page
https://www.redalt.com/downloads/

I understand that Adhesive creates a sticky post within a category. So if the reader changes categories, then the post will not appear on top.

There are alternative directions for making a sticky post in WordPress without using a plugin
https://shaunandrews.com/2006/07/14/wordpress-sticky-posts/

Here is another set of directions for making sticky posts in K2, the default Kubrick theme using a hack
https://www.maxpower.ca/wordpress-hack-sticky-adhesive-kubrick/2005/05/03/

There is also an alternative to Adhesive listed here:
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/37460?replies=4

The first link given on the above www.ads-software.com site is another web site of Owen’s and if you click on that link, you get a 404.

The second link given of the above www.ads-software.com site is to David Chait’s CG-PowerPack 1.5.3.1. CG-PowerPack does not appear on Matt’s list of working plugins nor on the list of plugins that do not work.
https://www.chait.net/index.php?p=238

Alan Gutierrez has a post about a work-around he devised using Adhesive (of course, you need Adhesive first)
https://kiloblog.com/tag/sticky-posts

Just because I like her, I’ll include ScriptyGoddess’s discussion on sticky posts where she ended up getting Adhesive to work.
https://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2004/09/27/sticky-posts-in-wordpress/

My brother always says that you do not have a choice until you have at least 3 options. So now you have some things to think about and then you can make a choice.

Perhaps people are not clear about your question. what language are you using? Is there no font for it? I have seen many blogs with other languages not using any English or even the letters of English. If you can type in your language on a computer, then you should be able to do that in WordPress. I have seen blogs where the letters went right to left. It may even be possible to have letters in vertical columns as Chinese might be.

I am not sure if you want images on a menu or if you mean you will write a message on a graphic space, save it as an image and then upload the image into the text space of a message.

You can easily put an image in a post. I am not sure what you mean by CAT. A BLOG is made up of multiple posts, so how do you mean convert a BLOG to an image file. If you post an image each time you write, then your blog would be made up of a series of posts with images in them.

Please explain your need with more details.

Thanks, vakaryl. I am in the process of rebuilding the blog at a different location. I am only checking here in hope of getting a message about a fix before I finish rebuilding.

I sent an email to him before I wrote this. I don’t know what time it is in Finland, but probably he is sleeping.