rhmercer

Sorry guys. I am still having multiple problems with my right leg which makes it almost impossible to walk or live without pain in spite of medication. Consequently I haven’t been using my computer for a while. Thanks for the suggestions and I will, given time, try disabling plug-in and using the default theme. I do not usually write my posts in Word but do so directly from Dashboard. Perhaps using Insert from Word will give better formatting.
Thanks again.

What a total cock-up in trying to update! I would rather have all my teeth pulled without anaesthetic than attempt this exercise again! Thank God that other programmes do not have such a convoluted mess of updating – what is so difficult in just updating like everyone else? Firstly automatic update wouldn’t work……..couldn’t connect to the server no matter what! Tried to follow the manual update section but don’t have the necessary degree in stupidity. Tried to go back to the old version…..wound up with two of each wp directories…..ie wp-admin etc.,. Got rid of those that were not relevant and now not only cannot edit new posts….get the message viz., Warning: require(/home/rhmercer/public_html/blog/wp-includes/compat.php)[I have never even seen such a file!] [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/rhmercer/public_html/blog/wp-settings.php on line 246

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/rhmercer/public_html/blog/wp-includes/compat.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/rhmercer/public_html/blog/wp-settings.php on line 246
Try to access my blog from my home page and got another problem…..just a listing of files under the heading “index of blog”. Question: is there any way I can delete this rubbish I now have, install 2.8 clean and import my blogs? Else I will surely be looking for a new, simpler, programme!

OK. Thanks for that. I will give it a try………and hope!

Sounds simple doesn’t it. So if I delete

all

the files except wp-config.php and htaccess then I will not lose any of the information and published articles in my blog? Is that what you are saying? Does this include the WP-admin/content/includes folders? Seems to me if I delete ALL files I will be starting from scratch! Can you elucidate a little further?
Thanks.