Shari

Have no idea what caused the problem in the first place, but upgraded to 2.0.9 today (thanks Whooami), and comments SEEM to be working again. I will know for sure once my readers start drifting back. ??

Moshu: Thanks for further explaining the branches and the reasons for them. I feel more in touch now. ??

Whooami: Thanks so much for your help. Hopefully this upgrade will fix my commenting problem and any security issues. If not, I look forward to your help after the upgrade.

I feel like a little kid on the big diving board. ??

OK, thank you so much for that explanation.

Do I need to do the upgrades by steps? From 1.5.3 to 2.0, then then to 2.0.1, and so on? Or can I download 2.0.9 and do the upgrade in one step?

Whooami, thank you very much for your reply, and yes, I do understand. I put off upgrading merely because I couldn’t find the time to sit down and do everything right. I had actually planned to upgrade very soon (waiting for word on whether Getz had any serious problems), when the comments problem hit.

I made the assumption that I needed to fix the comments issue and then I could upgrade.

Will I be able to fix this issue once I upgrade, do you think? And also, would I have to upgrade soon again if I didn’t go with the latest release?

P.S. Will I be able to upgrade if I can’t log out of my admin panel? Currently, clicking “Logout” only redirects me to the Admin panel. Thanks again!

If someone could close this thread, I would be grateful. Have consolidated and updated the problem in this thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/119394

It takes a bit of getting used to, but if you’ve learned HTML and CSS or anything like that, it’s not impossible. The thing to remember is the PHP tags are not like HTML and CSS – they don’t change how something looks, they change what is displayed there.

Moshu said: Find this line:
<?php wp_list_pages(‘title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>’ ); ?>
and replace Pages with whatever you want.

You said: I finally found the second sidebar.php, it contained the wp_list_pages command. However, after studying it, I have no idea “what pages I should use to replace what pages.”

If I understand what Moshu said, he meant you can replace the word “Pages” in <?php wp_list_pages('title_li=<h2>Pages</h2>' ); ?> with another heading, like “About This Site”.

That will change the word “Pages” to “About this site” (or whatever you choose to type in between <h2> and </h2> in that string, and it will display a list of the pages you have created in your WordPress blog underneath it.

If you want something else displayed instead of those pages, you would then need to put a different php tag in that line. For example, if you want the blog’s description to display underneath the word “Pages” or “About this site”, you would need the following:

<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>

and you would put that AFTER the above line of code that contains “Pages” or “About this site”.

I find this page enormously helpful: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Stepping_Into_Template_Tags

Hope this helps!

There has been a change in this problem. I did a couple of little things to try and fix it – things others have tried for a similar problem – but no luck.

One odd thing is that the comments suddenly no longer work on any of the three blogs I maintain on my current hosting provider. I e-mailed them about it this afternoon but haven’t yet received a response.

Tonight, I just thought I would try posting a comment again and instead of the long hang-up resulting in “IE cannot open this page”, I got the following:

Warning: main(/home/theworde/public_html/openupwp-config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/theworde/public_html/openup/wp-comments-post.php on line 2

Warning: main(/home/theworde/public_html/openupwp-config.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/theworde/public_html/openup/wp-comments-post.php on line 2

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘/home/theworde/public_html/openupwp-config.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/theworde/public_html/openup/wp-comments-post.php on line 2

I know I don’t have an openupwp-config.php file because, well, I don’t… just the regular wp-config file. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Shari

I’m so sorry to reply to my own post, but I don’t see a way to edit the original post. I just wanted to update to say that I tried reverting back to my old theme, and the problem persisted.

Thanks again in advance for anyone who can help me figure this out!

spencerp, I must say you rawk totally. I probably just dated myself badly with that, but thank you so very much for your help! Your instructions are perfect. I will just delete and then upload only the files contained in the zip folder I downloaded.

Thanks again!!

spencerp, thanks a million for those links! Am I correct to assume I can just overwrite the files on my server with the files contained in that zip? After backing up, of course. ^_~

Thanks very much for the link, Yosemite, but I’am afraid you misunderstand. I don’t want to upgrade to 2.X. I want to stay with what I have, 1.5.2.

On the WordPress Trac site, I see that patches and fixes are still being written for 1.5.2, and would like to implement those changes, to keep my copy of 1.5.2 as stable and secure as possible.

Thanks for your reply. Hopefully someone will know what I mean!

My site uses the Relaxation 3 Column theme by Clemens Orth… https://clemens.orth.me.uk/2005/05/15/wordpress-theme-3-column-relaxation/

I change my header graphic every other week or so.

I did the upgrade to WP 1.5.2 with no problems. I also implemented the Clean Archives 1.5 plug-in, which is awesome, but doesn’t fix the zero in the archives problem. I didn’t expect it to, though. I am hoping someone can tell me how to fix this problem, even if it’s bad news, i.e., I have to go through each one of those fields and edit the date/time string.

Thanks.

Just playing around in myphpadmin this morning… would it be safe to rename all the 0000-00-00 strings with an actual date and time? Might that fix the problem? I’m kind of scared of tinkering with anything in the databases without someone’s guidance.

Beel, thanks for pointing out my error in assuming it was related the the Event Calendar. It WAS related, but only under the category of “user error”. Heh. Sorry.