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I have been experiencing this off and on as well, and it’s getting really annoying. It just happened to me again, which is why I am over here trying to find answers again. So, you aren’t alone in this, but I don’t know what the problem is. Hope someone has an answer.

I’m hosted there too, so let me tell you what I did. You have to change the permissions on the theme files (just the php ones) and then you can edit them in the internal wordpress editor. I CHMOD them to 666 while I was working on them, and then I change them back.

Of course, you could do as whooami suggested and download them, make changes and upload them again, but I like using the internal editor because I can switch between all the templates I want to change things on without having to download them all and open them all. I guess it’s a personal preference thing.

Thank you!!! I increased the size of the window slightly to 640×480 so things wouldn’t be all scrunched together, but it’s perfect. My happiness with WP is now restored fully. ??

I have read grumbling about this in several places, and I’m grumbling about it too. I miss the pop up window. I like to have whatever it is I am posting about open and viewable while I am writing my post, as I often pull more than one quote from any given site/news story. If I wanted to open WordPress’s full post page in the Admin area, I could do that without having a special bookmark. The least it could do is open in a new window or tab and not in the same window as the thing I want to post about.

Has no one come up with a workaround for this yet? I’ve spent a good part of the day searching with Google and Yahoo, and all I have found is people saying they don’t like the way it works now.

I’m sort of wishing I hadn’t upgraded either. I really miss the old bookmarklet functionality. ??

Did anything ever come of this? I’ve only been using WP for a few months now (love it), and this is one of the most annoying things for me … that when I open up a draft, it automatically changes the timestamp to the new time.
Sometimes I start a post and it takes a day or two to finish, but I’d still like it to be in it’s proper place on the time line when I am done with it. Sometimes I’ll pull a published post back into draft mode when new info becomes available or it needs some other sort of editing that can’t be done quickly enough to leave the other version live on the site (the correcting of misinformation for example), and when I do that … the timestamp changes, thus making me have to remember when it was originally written so it will appear where it should when it is re-published.
Having the option on drafts to keep the original timestamp from it’s first creation or to edit it to the new timestamp would be nice. It’d be better than nice … it’d be wonderful.

Well, here’s what I did tonight. Tried every thing I could think of and a few things that probably weren’t possible … then I sort of fixed it by accident. I set the style selector to be a dropdown box in the plugin file itself (where you can select “text” or “dropdown”) as well as defining the style I wanted to be used as the default. For some reason, now it’s working. I deleted all my cookies in all my browsers, closed them all, and then visited the site with each one, and yeah … seems to be working now. Maybe someone could stop by and check just to be sure I haven’t lost my mind though. LOL! My abilities don’t allow me to even fathom what the difference could be. At this point, it’s all looking like gibberish to me (not that it made all that much sense to me to begin with). But it’s working, so I’m happy. The dropdown box takes up less room anyway.
Thanks guys for being so helpful and sweet!
Now to get back to designing styles and less reading of code for hours on end. ??

@import url( <?php wp_stylesheet(); ?> ); is the only thing in the style section of index.php …
I orginally had the link go to just the wordpress directory, but thought adding the index.php to the link might make a difference. It didn’t as far as I could tell.
I was reading that article earlier, and maybe after my grey matter has recuperated a bit, I’ll just figure out how to do it that way, but I’d really like to get this working. It’s awfully cool and simple to use. At the moment, just knowing how to do things in WP is giving me a few headaches (moving away from MT – totally love WP).

Well at least I know I’m not just going crazy! Thanks for looking into it.

Here’s how I produced this on both our computers here:
Went to the page and it loads the style I have as default (browns and greens). I then select one of the other styles from the Style list at the bottom of the menu (blue fade). The style on the main page changes to that one. Clicked a link to go to a entry only page. It shows the blue fade style. Then, I hit the link at the top of my menu to go back to the main page from that entry page, and it defaults to the green/brown one again … though only on the main page. All other pages still load the style I selected (blue fade) if I go back to an entry page or a category page. It’s quite maddening really. ??
I’m using Firefox right now, but I have had it do the same thing in IE 5.5, IE 6 and plain Mozilla on two different computers.

I’m having something of a problem with the style-switcher as well.
I have:
Installed and activated the plugin and added the code necessary to have it function on the site.
@import url( <?php wp_stylesheet(); ?> ); (at the top replacing what was there – tried setting a default style here as well, didn’t solve the problem)
<?php wp_style_switcher(); ?> (in the menu area to display the list of styles available)
Changed the default style-sheet called within the plugin as well (because I was sick of looking at the default one), hoping that would make some difference. It didn’t.
Aside from filling in my own content on the menu, I haven’t done anything at all to the default template (that I know of or meant to do).
The style-switcher:
Does change the style when you click on one of the links for a different style.
It is setting a cookie.
The style carries through as you surf through pages other than the main page, but …
Here’s where the problem comes in: When you go back to the main page, it reverts to the style I set as default (or before that the default WP style – or no style at all when I didn’t have that one uploaded into the style folder). It’s doing this in both IE and Mozilla browsers. I’ve seen this behavior on other sites using WP and the style-switcher as well. The style won’t stick to the main page and reverts to the default (whatever it may be set at, wherever it may be set).
Here’s the url for my test install if you want to take a look: https://justorb.com/wordpress/
Any suggestions? Is it something entirely stupid that I am just not seeing? I’ve been reading about this plugin and fussing with this for a few days now, and my limited knowledge of WordPress and PHP is now exhausted (as am I). Hopefully someone else will have encountered this same problem and know how to fix it quickly and easily.
Thanks!