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Here we go:

1. Try using simple editor, maybe Notepad if you do have a programming editor. Word processing editors are not a good idea on a general basis.

As for the extension when you save the file. When you are saving the file, Select “All Files” in the “File Type” box on the Save dialog. This should under normal circumstances remove the .txt extension. If that doesn’t work, FTP your files as they are and then in your FTP client, right click on your wp-config.php.txt file, and select rename and remove the .txt extension.

2. Once you have substituted the values for DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD and DB_HOST, you do not need to do anything else. That should work perfectly fine without any problems.

3. Your server is the one running MySQL, so you will not upload anything related to MySQL as such. So in your step 2 regarding the DB_NAME, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD and DB_HOST values, you are actually supposed to give the information connected with your server’s MySQL configuration. You need to have a database created with DB_NAME prior to the installation, and the DB_USER that you specify must have enough privileges to create tables etc.

4. You do not need any additinal HTML editor, unless you plan on modifying themes, and building custom themes for your blog.

Hope that is helpful. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask.

Plus I don’t even understand you sidebar structure, you have <ul> tags in places, and <li> tags outside of any list tags ..

Try removing such errors first, and then it will be a lot easier to figure out the layout issue itself.

Try adding the following to your stylesheet:


.profile-link a {
text-decoration: none;
}

.profile-link a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}

If that doesn’t solve the problem, post back and I can try provide more assistance

The Edit and Favorites links in the profile are indeed not working, they just keep refreshing back to the profile page.

Probably a glitch that they will work out soon, until then just sit back and relax ??

You could manually edit your .htaccess file .. ??

the_time doesn’t work that way, but try sending in a the_date call with time specific formatting ..

Isn’t it where it is posted right now ian2 .. ??

Use CSS, give them a border and margin or padding ??

Can you please post the link to where you blog is running?

your sidebar still is a container (physical if you wish), sort of like a “meta” container if you want.

You can do what you explained in one way, put all the four columns that you want inside the “sidebar” container. Then starting with the first child container, use:

position: absolute;
left: (width of the previous child container);

or you could try this too:

position: relative;
margin-left: (width of previous child container);

If you are having trouble, let me know and I will see whats wrong. But please provide the code that you are using if you implement it and there is trouble somewhere, or a link to where we can see it in action.

Here are pointers to where you can find out more information about your queries:

1. https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats

2. Not unless you wish to custom program something, I believe there is not really much control over this right now, but I might be wrong

3. Refer to where you downloaded the theme from, authors normally leave a note about if they wish to credited on all sites using their theme. If you find no such information, its safe to assume that you do not have to leave that information there. Most of the themes are released under GPL licensing I believe, so it shouldn’t be a problem if you remove that but keep the referrence to the author in the files themselves. If you still have doubts, contact the author and clarify.

4. Image re-sizing is being discussed in another thread on the forums, please check there.

5. Looks pretty neat. Personally I am not too much of a fan of dark red so much, but the contrast works pretty good I think.

Hope that helps. If you need more information, post back.

“i was going to use float : left which takes it an makes it left of its parent element” .. what do you mean by this?

if you give a float: left for the “links”, then it will float left relative to the parent which is “sidebar”, and then you can accordingly position the other container “music” in a number of ways.

“links” and “music” have no relationship except for the fact that they are both child nodes of “sidebar”

Or to show smaller content, use the_excerpt() instead of the_content() in your theme ..

Did you also clear out your MySQL tables?