onocrotalus

Go to a plugins site like https://wp-plugins.net/ and search for “poll”, “vote”, etc.

In your css for content div, you have:

margin: 140px 0;

This is shorthand for

margin: 140px 0 140px 0;

In other words, if you just give two values for something like margin or padding, the first value controls top and bottom, and the second value controls left and right. So, at the moment your content div has a margin of 140px at the top (to give space for your header), AND the same margin at the bottom. Change the css to

margin: 140px 0 0 0;

and the whitespace should go away.

There are lots of HTML validation errors in your new theme, far more than the old one. Try fixing those – starting with the ones that don’t appear in the old theme – and that might sort things out in Opera.

I think you could use the in_category tag for the first part of your problem, and just make the line of index.php that you identified appear only when a post belongs to certain categories. See this page for details of usage.

If you don’t have lots of pages, you could just add an exclude argument and block all pages from being shown except the one you want. An example is here.

This bit of documentation might help. Also, check out the validation errors in the download page.

On the archive pages it might look neater if, at the top of the page, the link to the home page was on a seperate line from the ‘Previous Entries’ and ‘Next Entries’ links. And I agree that moving the subsciption buttons to a seperate page would preserve the clean look of the site.

For problem 1, have you added the plugin code
<?php if(function_exists('wp_print')) { print_link(); } ?>
in the relevant place in single.php?

A plugin shouldn’t be necessary; have a look at this bit of documentation.

You could try working through some of the validation errors to see if solving them fixes the layout problem.

This plugin solved the problem. Perhaps worth including a short note about it in the Permalinks Codex? It certainly took me a while to hunt it down.

Thanks for your help. Any advice about where I might suggest they start looking? I haven’t had a response from Lycos yet. Just anything extra info that might improve my chances of getting them to respond/do something about it/etc., really.

Thanks for replying. I’ll send the query to my host as well..but surely squillions of people use Lycos and their 404 procedure works fine?

Try resizing the image autumnfae.jpg to make it smaller, and then upload it again. At the moment it’s 500px wide. This is bigger than the width allocated to the section of the page which shows your posts, so it’s breaking the layout.

To confirm – commenting out the lines of script (described above) in the default sidebar.php stops IE showing the unwanted space. So, it was caused by the blank list item generated when none of those conditions are met, i.e. when on the index page.