Vasili

No, you do NOT upload the WP files files into the DB at all …. you upload them (and any Themes) to the public_html directory found in the Domain’s main account directory! You can find this via the FTP Tool at GoDaddy when connecting to your account by carefully reviewing the account structure (heirarchy tree) itself….

For manual installs, you need only create a DB (not load files), for when you run the “www.YourDomain.com/wp-admin/install.php” from your browser, all necessary files required for installing/associating the script to the DB are automatically configured!

Follow the instructions PRECISELY, in the order they are presented, to achieve the predictable results.

This is a volunteer-only forum

I understand completely, as I am very active “Figure” in a number of Forums myself (Google me!), which probably explains why I posted with as much info as possible, even when ignorant! LOL I recently retired as Moderator in a few of them after getting somewhat burned out dealing with the same old tedium and pervasive lack of “Forum Decorum”….

In my opinion Template Monster is doing their users a disservice by not keeping themes THEY ARE SELLING up to date.

Again, I couldn’t agree more! The worst part of it is that this template was purchased from one my own TM sites for a client, and this obviously illuminated a huge dis-connect on their entire program, if even I (who is not unfamiliar with all things WWW to begin with) ran into this “unforeseen” issue!

The only solution I could develop with any degree of confidence was to send the template off to a programmer with all the refences and “WP Codex” resources for a re-write/update to 2.7 format, which will not only solve this singular client issue, but will leave me with a coding patch that can be applied to other templates as needed in the future.
Something TM should provide across the board, as we all know! Even though this project will end up costing me rather than earning a small percentage, it will be useful for the future builds, as well as gave me cause to be much more careful to really evaluate every little detail about products and programs from now on — just like it was way back when I was a newbie!

Thanks to each of you who took the time to offer comments and insight — I appreciate every effort made on my behalf!

With Regard,
Vasili

ProWebs Unlimited

Thanks for the response, but apparently that is not really provoing to be a viable solution to the real issues …. [ see later post here ]

It all goes back to which WP version the template was written for, and the secondary issue of the Wp archived versons not having a theme pre-installed in them whatsoever, which pretty much makes for a useless install altogether!

The only real soution is to glean insight from whatever WP Codex discussions/instructions are available to “code-up” the template itself so it will function with the current version (which are more desireable anyway, already pre-loaded with the widgets and tools AND being self-upgrading).
* That is why I have sent this “once simple” project off to a programmer for completion, as this not only solves this one blog installation issue, but will provide tested patch code I can apply to other Wp installs using Premium templates.

Whatever affordability that was provided using WP and a sharp template has been completely wiped away, now that I have been required to invest in a independent solution …. you’d think WP would foresee this issue and would at least preserve their legacy versions with at least ONE theme pre-installed, let alone reply in the Forums with a satisfactory solution!!

Each domain has a directory (actually a few of them) , and the “root” Directory for each domain is called “public_html” … this is where you install WordPress if you want it to show up as the ‘main website’ script, and it is also where you will find “placeholder” index pages.

You need to delete the ‘index.html’ file you see in the public_html directory, as HTML will always take precedence over a index.php file, and WordPress needs to have its index.php file be the only one there if it is to show properly.