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I’m having a simialr problem, which I can’t fix. I’ve added a extra sidebar on the right, so I need to make the comments textarea narrrower, or it’s forced down to the bottom of the sidebar, as in this page:
https://www.freesitebuilder.co.uk/WordPress/?p=75#comments

I’ve tried editing the CSS, and the comments code, but I haven’t succeeded. My CSS for the comments is

#commentlist { list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; }
#commentlist li { list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 10px; background-color: #E1ECFC; border-top: 1px solid #FFD275; border-bottom: 1px solid #FFD275; }
#commentlist cite { margin: 7px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; }
#commentlist p { margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px; }

My textarea code:
<p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="4"></textarea></p>

I’ve tried adding textarea widthcoding to the CSS, and changing the “cols” values in the textarea.

TIA

This is an excellent tutorial I’ve just followed, which covers how themes work, and how to edit or create your own.

https://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/

https://www.mybloglog.com is a community for bloggers and readers, which is becoming very popular.

Commenting on other blogs will spread the word about your blog.

I’ve added https://www.thegoodblogs.com/ to my sidebar, which brings in some traffic.

The codex has good advice on backing up posts:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/WordPress_Backups

I use WP DB Backup plugin, originally by Skippy, now at https://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2007/01/22/wordpress-database-backup-re-release-version-20/

I’ve tried to make this work, and also tried a couple of plugins, but I either get a broken categories list (as in the screenshot) or a completely blank page.

My current code:
<?php wp_list_pages(); ?>
<li><?php _e('Categories'); ?>
<ul><?php list_cats(FALSE, ' ', 'name') ?>
</ul>
</li>

I’ve tried replacing list_cats before, on 2.0.7, using wp_list_cats, but that produced the same problem. So could it be my template?

Have you fixed this? Because in both FX2 and IE7 it looks fine for me.

That’s a good tutorial – if like me you’re not an expert with php, I’d recomend the Backup Plugin (scroll down the page). It’s easy, latest version is here:
https://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/wp-db-backup

This backs up your database – your posts, comments, and so on. It doesn’t back up your theme pages – index.php, style.php, and so on. So if you’ve made any changes like adding things to the sidebar or altering the theme, you’ll need to back them up too by downloading them using your FTP program.

I use Feedburner https://www.feedburner.com/ to display my recent posts – you can see it on the right-hand side, about halfway down the page here https://www.freesitebuilder.co.uk/

I use their BuzzBoost, which gives a script to paste into your webpage, and there are various options that you can change.

Thanks Otto – is it better to have separate files for these sections? Many templates seem to be created that way, and I’m not sure if that’s a more recent method, which will become a required standard in WP eventually.

I needed
img { border-style: none}

rather than border: none

I’ve added the links through the Links/Add Links tab on the dashboard, and the images are called from another website. If I was using HTML, I could change it to border=0, but I can’t do that through the dashboard.

So why does the links manager include the option to open a link in a new window? (I think it’s in the Advanced section.)

I’ve done a complete restore 2.06, and that’s cured it. Now I shall follow the instructions for upgrading to 2.07.

I did the same – I just FTP’d the files that needed to be replaced. ?? My blog then displayed a blank page. So I restored (FTP)the 2.0.6 versions of those files, but I still have a blank page.

Before I make a worse mess, what would be the best thing now? A complete restore from 2.0.6 backup?

TIA.

Thanks for clarifying that for me. I have looked at the options, but haven’t made any changes until I’m more sure of what I’m doing. I was also getting confused with the Writing Posts page, and the Quicktag “more”.

Thanks again.