newflesh

Generation of dynamic pages and transfer/access speed don’t have much to do with each other. Your host can have you on a server that has top notch storage and network connections, but is jam-packed with sites that choke the database server and hog the cpu. The fact that the speeds vary during the day point to the latter, in my opinion.

When changing the passport in the database you have to MD5 hash it (done with the “function” dropdown if you use phpMyAdmin). Visual tutorial here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_phpMyAdmin

The comments_popup_link tag can be used to both output the link and set the text like you want, so you don’t need the additional comments_number tag.

Put this code at the top of the template file:

<?php
/*
Template Name: Your custom page
*/
?>

Place it in the theme folder, and you should be able to select “Your custom page” in the page template box on the write page panel. Documentation here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Pages#Creating_your_own_Page_Templates

You’re welcome. Have fun with WordPress! ??

You just entered the data in the wrong place, it should be something like this:

define('DB_NAME', 'je-design_co_uk_-_test'); // The name of the database

…and so on for the others. With the four “DB_” properties left intact it should work. ??

Yes, if the database you specify in the config doesn’t exist, then you have to create it. But you don’t have to do anything for the prefix bit, that only defines what WordPress calls the tables it creates in the database when you run the installer.

Some problems that end up with a blank screen can be solved by reselecting the theme. A small thing worth trying.

You’re welcome, and feel free to set the post to “resolved” so that people know the status. ??

You will have to find the comment_link_popup tag. In most themes it’s in index.php, but some may define the post layout in other files like post.php. It should look somthing like this:

<?php comments_popup_link('No comments yet', '1 comment so far',
'% comments so far', 'comments-link', 'Comments are
off for this post'); ?>

Then you change the three first parameters, which define the output for posts with none, one or several (%) comments.

It certainly is a nice, clean forum software. Would use it myself next time I need a forum. phpBB, UBB and similar have become a bit too information-heavy.

I don’t think I have a good answer for why you don’t have a dashboard, but I can tell you that there should be one and that it should look pretty much like the one at wordpress.com.

I see from your old post that you had install problems, so maybe hitting ctrl-f5 for a full refresh could be worth a try. I doubt it does much, but sometimes browsers cache the oddest things…

Seems you have to change in manually in the header.php file, at line 22:
<h1><a href="<?php echo get_settings('home'); ?>/">chaotic<span>soul</span></a></h1>

I guess it was made that way to allow the use of the span tags to style the words.

If you want to automatically insert the path to images in the theme directory you can use <?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/ to retrieve it for you. That way you also don’t have edit anything when you move the theme (as I suppose you will since it’s in a “testing_environment” now.

I think you will get better response that way. The forum works best if the requests are as bite-sized as possible.

Depending on your knowledge, you might find the codex section on Blog Design and Layout useful. And for a general resource for xhtml and css there’s of course the W3Schools site.