skeezicks

Ah, that’s right! Must have been left over from before I deactivated and reinstalled the blog on my host.

It appears that one could fake a bunch of comments by registering several different usernames and emails on one’s computer then, right?

Tried the Forgotten PW feature but when I go to my blog now I get an opportunity to add a comment with a prefilled userid and email address.

Boy, this is confusing.

Oops, I was editing my post while you were reading the original. I’ll try the forgot pw feature…

Thanks. I think I’m slowly getting it now. So if I I have a website (I do, it’s https://www.springvalleyhoa.org), I could recreate each html page as a (php?)”page” in my blog. Then if I have categories that correspond to the pages, readers could view the page and add their comments, right? At least it sounds practical to me.

Maybe you could try using a hex editor to take them out. Make sure to back up your file first! Start by taking 2 or 3 out and see what happens.

Thanks. AN Hosting offers “unlimited” databases. I never did trust a salesman ??

Is bluehost.com in any way “better than” AN Hosting? The website tool, for example?

i have a blog at wordpress.com and, now that I have a host, i would like to transfer everything (look, posts, etc…)

I’m starting out with blogging and was considering creating my blog at wordpress.com. May I ask why you are moving away from wordpress.com?

Don’t know if it’s the same problem, but all of a sudden I can’t get to the Dashboard in the admin screen. I am asked for userid and pw and none of my ids and pws work…

That’s what I was thinking. And I thought I’d it a preliminary name until it is ready to go live. If I do that, I shouldn’t have too much trouble changing the blog’s name. Or will I??

No, that’s not it, but it contains the information I was looking for. Thanks for the help!

Okay, I’ll give that a try. Thanks for your help.

For Drmiketemp:

Thanks for the link to the upgrade process, but upgrading assumes (I assume) that WP is already installed somewhere in my portion of the server disk (i.e. somewhere in https://www.mywebsite.com).

And I have not done that yet – I’m using an installation of WP that Yahoo has made available to all its users. So-o-o

Looks like I need to create a subdirectory such as https://www.mysite.com/wordpress and then install WP 2.2.2 into it.

Is that the right place to start?

TIA, Skeezicks

I’m staying with Yahoo because it gives me a website with no ads or other distractions, and because it does provide free tools (i.e. Sitebuilder and WordPress).

I’ve mucked around with WordPress a bit to get my blog going (springvalleyhoa.org/blog). The only way I could get the blog up was to use the Yahoo dialogs. I don’t have the basic concepts yet for WP that would let me do what I want, but that will slowly change.

Sure would be nice to see a write-up explaining a bit about “under the hood” i.e. what the various WP files are used for, a bit about their parameters, etc. something like “Inside Windows” for example.

Yep, I boo-booed. Yahoo provides 2.0.2, not 1.9 like I wrote. Well, once I understand how the WP files interact I’ll be a lot closer to learning how to use WP itself.

Thanks for the replies. I was finally able to get the blog working after deleting it and reinstalling (Yahoo-style) it. I guess I did a no-no during the first few installs, so this time I documented every step I took in a notepad file and voila, it worked!

Now if I can just keep my fat freckly fingers out of it, I think I will do okay. Thanks again for the help!

Thanks for the post!