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Google for, and then download Irfanview. This is an excellent freeware program that lets one view and manipulate image files.

No. If I log out, inevitably I’ll be greeted with a login screen. And if I then login, I see what I get when logged in as Administrator.

So I guess I need to create another user on my computer, but I’m not sure how to do that other than editing the User table.

Which I don’t want to do. I want to see the screen that somebody who has never left a comment on my blog would see.

It’s late (for me) and I hope I made myself a bit more clear.

No ideas??

Yes, please take a look at:

springvalleyhoa.org/blog

How can I see what you see??

If Brian-h installs wp2.0 and restores the 2.0 database, then upgrades that to version 2.2.2, why does he need to create a new 2.2.2 blog???

Okay, thanks.
Two last questions for this thread.

1. Getting back to the original strings I mentioned at the start of this thread, when and by what do the user name and password found in wp-config get encrypted?

2. What other part of WP (or any other process, for that matter) actually looks at those encrypted strings and uses them for something?

Thanks for you help – I’m still plunking along and will get there sooner or later.

Well I just found out where to go and what to do. You left out a few steps, namely:

After clicking “user” in the list of sql tables at the left of the screen, you are presented with a table containing several records (rows). Notice at the top of the screen the “Structure” tab is selected. Each row is the name of another table. You are looking at the structure of those tables as opposed to data they contain.

To see the actual data the tables contain, click the “Browse” tab near the top of the screen. The table that is then displayed shows all the users, and the privileges they have, that have been entered in the User table.

If you want to change the privileges of one of those users, click the Edit icon (the little pencil) just left of the desired username and a Privilege table (for want of a better word) will be displayed.

To enable a privilege, click Y for that privilege at the right of the record; to disable a privilege, click N.

When finished changing the privileges, click the Go button, or click the Reset button at the bottom if you screwed everything up.

Anyway, that’s what I did. Did I get it right or did I blow the whole thing to kingdom-come!!??

Guess I’ll find out. I can’t even remember what I was doing that led me to this…

Thanks Mike,

From your last post in that thread:

“You might try increasing the privileges for the database user–this user is specified in your blog’s wp-config.php file with the $DB_USER value. Once you determine the user, you will need to use phpMyAdmin to access the database ‘mysql’ and the ‘user’ table. When you enter phpMyAdmin select the mysql Database on the left then select the user table. Then edit record for the user you identified in the wp-config.php file and check Yes (or Y) for each of the privileges.”

I selected the “MySQL (6)” database and then selected the “user” table. The screen then displayed an 8-column table (FieldNames = Field, Type, Collation, Attributes, Null, Default, Extra, and six more columns under an Action column).

This looks like a table definition thingy, (can’t recall right now the proper nomenclature, but I recognize it from my experience with Access).

I looked for a record that contained the value of $db-user as contained in my wp-config.php file (the string there was encrypted, btw) but that value was not present in the user table. Just a “host” record followed by a “user” and a “password” record followed by other other records with which I am not yet familiar.

In the six-column Action field, the Change, Drop, Primary, Index, and Unique icons were on, and the Fulltext icon was dimmed (it looked dimmed to me, anyway) for all records.

I didn’t see anything I recognized as pertaining to permissions in that table nor in any other of the MySQL (6) database so for me, I’m at an impasse. Where do I go from here?

Right. Let me rephrase.

When I set up my database, I entered a username and password, say, ‘name’ and ‘password’. After that, something in the setup process encoded those strings so that they now they read ‘BsN_Sevarp’ and ‘akSt_woent’ (examples).

If I change them back (which, I assume, is what I’m doing when I edit wp-config-sample.php and manually upload it as wp-config.php), won’t that mess up the login process?

I don’t think that people Whoami and others whose posts sometimes seem somewhat curt are trying to be smug. I think they are trying to help others, as evidenced by their many, many replies, resolve problems.

As an experienced technical writer, I find that my own technical knowledge is a huge obstacle to helping others with problems that are seemingly unsurmountable by them but simple to me.

I’m sure they’ve answered the same old questions time and time again over the last months (years). I’m sure they are trying to keep their replies short and concise. I’m sure that out of exaspiration their replies sometimes make them seem like they are “smug”. I’m sure that if they were professional writers with lots of time for well thought-out answers to questions, their replies would have fewer “rough edges”.

However, they are just folks like all the rest of us, only they’ve already gone through a butt-load of problems, first during their own start-up times, and then through helping others. Nobody tells them to volunteer their time and expertise. Nobody has even asked them. They feel they have something useful and helpful to offer and they take time out from chores, studies, work, sleep, whatever, to read new posts about problems and respond to them as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Do their answers sometimes go over the heads of others? Do they sometimes assume more than a beginner’s knowledge of WordPress? Do their replies sometimes appear to be written for other programmers? Are their answers sometimes short and pointed? Do these people sometimes become frustrated with repeated cries for help when the answers can often be found in the documentation? Of course, the answer to all of these questions is YES YES YES!

Would visitors to this forum who have difficulties understanding things be satisfied instead with the boiler-plate, politically-correct-but-grammatically-incorrect and often useless replies given them by their host providers? I doubt it. I sure wouldn’t.

Probably should bring up the old adage, “Never look a gift horse in the mouth.” And guys like Whoami, Moshu, and many, others who jump in and help out, certainly do give freely of their time and knowledge. God help us all if they just said, “Screw it” and left me and others like me to the mercy of the ISP “Help” teams…

Thanks for the link. I read it an think I understand what I need to do (i.e. what Spencer did). But I’m still a bit leery. Is there yet a procedure that includes all the “tricks” involved in an upgrade?

For example, many posts here say to disable plugins before upgrading. Are there any other gotchas one should know about?

Thanks for the help! I’ll keep reading and asking until I feel I know enough to jump from 2.0.2 to 2.2.3 (or whatever the latest happens to be at that time).

Who is hosting your site??

I’m also considering converting my website to WP. Am I right in thinking that in the blog, I would place the content of my web pages onto WP pages? I’m also assuming that the WP pages, while static, can contain links to other pages as well as to external URLs – is this correct?

Sorry for the confusion. The URL I gave was meant to be an example only (and the file was datA, not date).

I read the first paragraphs in the docs about permalinks. If I understand correctly, I make permalinks that point to targets in my blog for others to click and see. Is this right?

And it is my responsibility to see that the target does not move or disappear (i.e. become un-permanent). Or does a permalink update itself if its target is moved?

Thanks for your reply – it has certainly helped me to understand the concept of permalinks.

Who is your host, IIMA?