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thank you, each of you. i still need more ideas about this sort of site behavior … -s

Mark, thank you for that. I got rid of that photo and it seems to have made a difference for one person. Maybe related. But I’ve still got a dozen people telling me they cannot bring up my website, even when they clear their cache. So something is still not right.

WHOOOO HOOOOO. thank you both again. i just upgraded and it all looks well. (did it thru blue host simple scripts, btw) somehow it decided to keep the most important code change i had made previously, so all my advertisements show on every page! plus it kept a couple other small tweaks i had made.

wordpress rocks!

thank you Esmi. thank you Jan.

Jan, i understand and agree. i’m just not smart enough yet to use my file manager to create a child theme. ??

no, i don’t mean that.

i’m going to do the upgrade to 3.4.2 (without making a child theme first) and i realize a modification i made previously to a single php file will likely be lost.

the way i made that modification before was not just to add some bits of code to the existing template, but i deleted that template and pasted in an entire new template. (this actually was from you, as you’d told me you don’t usually give help that way, but it seemed simpler for you in this case and you sent it to me thru paste bin)

the only change you made in it was so my sidebar would then appear on every page and post on my site, instead of just the home page)

so after i upgrade, i’d like to use that same entire template you sent me before, and use it in place of the single php file that i get from the upgrade.

my question is, if i do THAT, will i undermine any parts of the upgrade …

thank you very much Esmi.

for clarification, are you saying if i do this, it will NOT undermine any of the upgrade?

fyi, i did a bunch of reading and looking last night, and i understand child themes now. yes i should do that, and attempted, but got stuck at a very basic part because i’ve never dealt in my actual file manager before. –sharyn

thanks Mika. my theme is called wordpress default. (WordPress Default 1.6 by Michael Heilemann)

i made changes to a template called “single php file. i don’t know if that is a file in my theme default folder … is it?

i don’t understand what people mean when they suggest using “child themes” when talking about repairs and stuff. are you suggesting i use a new and different theme?

so given what you said, and what i responded, are you saying it should fine for me to copy and paste the modification which worked on my old version into the same place after i upgrade?

maybe i didn’t say this clearly before, but a nice moderator instead of telling me a change to make, sent me a copy of the entire single php file with her changes in it and had me use it to entirely replace the existing one.

i am sorry, i mean it when i say i am green …

wow, i too could not activate plugin. so you think i should not try installing it through my wp dashboard? – i don’t know how to upload manually using FTP, i am a novice …

hello IMcDonald, so this plugin works okay with WP 3.3.1? it says it’s not compatible … i’m on WP 2.92 and thought it should be compatible, but when i downloaded and tried to activate yesterday … all bad. my WP dashboard vanished, and i simply got error messages there … i REALLY want to use this plug in – https://www.lewiscountysirens.com

i am no expert, but just spent all day trying to download that plugin and then it causing my wp dashboard to vanish when i attempted to activate it. i chose to try to get rid of the plugin, since it seemed to be the problem. i figured out that i needed to go to my webhost’s control panel and into my file manager and then find the file that looks like that and delete it. then i tried getting my wp dashboard again, and got another error message telling me to delete yet another file. i now have my dashboard back, but don’t have the plugin i really wanted to install. i am not saying this is what you should do, but your situation sounds similar to mine. good luck.

i tried again to download the plug in, and same thing happened. i wonder if i changed the permissions in the wrong files? are there some that look similar to the ones i was supposed to change, but are actually different ones? i wonder …

i figured out how to get my dashboard back, but now i fear another attempt at adding the plug in “w3 total cache” … which i’d sure like to use.

any ideas why the plug in caused probs for me? thanks.

if anyone can help, please do. now i deleted the w3 total cache plug in thru my file manager on my web host control panel, and my web site is available again, but i get this message below instead of getting my dashboard …

“W3 Total Cache Error: some files appear to be missing or out of place. Please re-install plugin or remove /home2/lewisco1/public_html/wp-content/advanced-cache.php.”

help please ??

and of course, looks like my web site is gone too ??

okay, i figured out where they are, changed them, downloaded and installed the plug in – but after i clicked ‘activate plugin’ i find i cannot see my dashboard … any ideas what to do? seems like i’m advised to delete the suspect plugin, but darn, that would be w3 total cache which i want ….