Mark (podz)

Each person would have to password protect their articles and each person could only be an Author.

But blog posts are generally written to be shared so if you don’t want people to even be able to see what others write then a community site might be the wrong thing for you?

I do not see that when I check in Safari or Firefox.

From it’s position though it would seem to be an error with the Cart plugin so I would contact the author of that plugin.

Try deactivating Cachify?

I’m sure it’ll be a plugin doing this.

Yes.

domain.com can be anything
domain.com/blog can be WordPress.

I do not see that error on that page.

Installing a theme will not change the content – you will lose nothing.

Using ftp or your webhost control panel please rename the /plugins folder to /pluginsold

Does that help?

Install and activate a default WP theme please – any that starts ‘Twenty-‘ and then describe exactly what you see.

Also the url to your site would be helpful.

More details please:
– the url of that page
– all active plugins

If you deactivate anti-spam, does that help?

“it shows nothing, absolutely nothing,”
Do you mean no comments or that you see just a white screen?
What do you see there?

Does this happen if she uses a different browser?

I would try deactivating plugins one by one (using explorer) and after you have deactivated one try to login with Chrome.
Do you have Firefox to check with too?

This happens because the server has not set the correct permissions for WordPress to be able to install and update plugin (and themes and core files). You need to contact your webhost and ask that they set the permissions so WordPress can indeed update what it needs. This is an easy change for them to make and has no security implications.

Try this?

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost:8888’);

or

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘127.0.0.1’);

Very odd.

This is what mine looks like in MAMP:

/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'wordpress');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'root');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'root');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');

and yours is identical to that?

in MAMP, open phpmyadmin and create another database called ‘wordpress’
Edit wp-config.php and make sure the db_name is also wordpress

What happens then?