trstreeter

OK, one more update: I ran the backup of the largest SQL database again, downloaded it, and this time, I found all the post and page data under wp_posts. So I can at least go to bed tonight knowing that data is in there!

I’m tempted to go ahead and mark this as resolved — I don’t know how to restore from the database backup, but I can figure it out — however, I am still curious if anyone knows why the XML file method is failing.

Follow-up:

I downloaded each of the four SQL databases that existed: three were of negligible size (<24kb) and one was nearly 200 MB. I still don’t see posts and pages in that SQL database, but maybe I’m misunderstanding how it works in the first place.

Brilliant! That did the trick. I knew I was getting close, but I couldn’t get over that last hump. Thanks for the tip!!!

Alright, I’m working through this problem, but I’m still not quite there. I’m hoping someone will have the last piece.

I created another div to contain each post –?

<div style="width:550px;float:left;">

<div style='width:33%;float:left'>
    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); // the loop ?>

    <!--post title as a link-->
	<h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php _e("Permanent Link to"); ?> <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

        <?php if(has_post_thumbnail()) { the_post_thumbnail(); } else {?>
	<?php /* the_content('<div class="post-more">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</div>'); */ ?>
	<?php } ?>

    <?php endwhile; //end one post ?>

</div>

This works just fine – the only issue is telling it to create a break after the 4th and 8th posts, pushing the content to the next div. Ideas welcome.

Alternatively, I could tell wordpress to retrieve the 1-4 most recent posts from a category, the 5-8 most recent posts from a category, and the 9-12 most recent posts from a category. Is that possible? I’m looking in the Codex now.

Yeah, no luck with that method.

If I set a height on the main div and set it up to go into columns, would it flow into them automatically?

Just an idea, I don’t know if it would work and I wouldn’t know how to code it, either.

Here’s what it is right now:

<div style="width:550px;float:left;">
    <?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); // the loop ?>

    <!--post title as a link-->
	<h2 id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php _e("Permanent Link to"); ?> <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>

        <?php if(has_post_thumbnail()) { the_post_thumbnail(); } else {?>
	<?php /* the_content('<div class="post-more">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</div>'); */ ?>
	<?php } ?>

I’ll give it a try right now. I’m not sure if it will work because I’m not choosing and posting the images individually –?WP is pulling them from the database.

You know, I’m having some trouble with this one. I made the kubrickheader.jpg and put it into the appropriate folder –?it shows up when I go to edit the header in the Design settings, but won’t show on the actual site. Any idea as to what gives?

It’s https://www.emiror.net.

Thanks in advance!