RKordel

Solved it. Halfway on the way to learning the rudiments of PHP I thought there has to be a better way. All this was because I wanted people to be able to subscribe to my humble blog.

Problem 1 – lots of posts make reference to large plugins abending. The solution for these is to edit PHP to increase the file load size. Down the wrong rabbit hole we went.

Problem 2 – I read a number of “manual install” directions that seemed to indicate that I should download the .zip file to my pc, then install from there. Almost, but not the complete picture.

Solution –

Step 1: Download Jetpack.zip to my PC
Step 2: Unzip the file into a separate subdirectory.
Step 3: Use Filezilla to upload the unzipped subdirectory to the /plugins directory on my site.

I now have a happy and functioning Jetpack running on my site. Now I have to see if I do this all over again the next time they update ??

And if all this is very obvious to the community at large, my apologies.

Richard

Craig,

Thank you for your help, and your offer of continued help.

Last night I came to the conclusion that I was working hard to solve the wrong problem. Mine is not to solve whatever issue with 2014 exists on 1and1.com, it is to get a professional website up and running.

After sleeping on it, I downloaded a new theme (Simone) and am now back to the main issue, getting my content ready up and able to do something for me.

Thanks,

Richard

Craig,

Well, it was a fun ride, but after deleting the 2014 theme (not as easy as pushing a delete button in 4.1), and re-installing, my attractive monolith remains.

I am going to spend some time tonight with a Lynda course on modifying themes and see what is going on. I then may save and rename this theme –
to 2001, a WP oddity ??

Thanks for pointing me in what I believe is the right direction.

Richard

Craig,

Thank you. I will try to track this down (now that I have a place to look).

The curious thing is that I have not edited anything – This is a clean and fresh install on 1and1. (as was the install on my localhost).

Go Figure,

RIchard

Craig,

Thank you for responding.

The site is at rkordel.com.

I have not gone much beyond the home page until I resolve the issue.

Richard