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Cool.

But if we really want to be “sure” we’d have to nuke the planet from orbit.

Hudson: Let’s just bug out and call it even, OK? What are we talking about this for?
Ripley: I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Hudson: F***in’ A…
Burke: Ho-ho-hold on, hold on one second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it.
Ripley: They can *bill* me.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/quotes

Thanks.

In the WP ‘root’ there are about two dozen files that appear to be updated as needed – some are updated each time and some are not. Last time I updated, I checked the file date and left alone the ones where the date didn’t change. Is that a safe assumption, using the file date, or should I just update everything each time, even if it looks like it’s the same file?

I guess there’s no reason not to other than the upload time, plus my FTP client keeps asking me “Are you sure?”

Links are managed via the Dashboard>Manage>Links panels, link categories are managed via Dashboard>Manage>Link Categories panel. Once you’ve added links and link categories, adding the Links (your blogroll) widget will add those links.

Interesting. Here’s what’s in my header.php:

<link href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="<?php bloginfo('name'); ?> RSS Feed" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/x-png" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/favicon.png" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php wp_head(); ?>

The stylesheet is needed, the pointer to the favicon can’t hurt, but I don’t know how big an effect removing the other two would have. What’s the downside of removing them?

Well, I know you said you didn’t want to be told how to upload themes, but this issue is usually related to a faulty folder hierarchy. Can you look at your site folder structure via FTP? Sometimes a theme will have a second folder inside the main theme folder. If that second folder doesn’t have files that point to subsequent folders, WP will sometimes not go any farther on its own. It sees the first folder as being empty, even though there is another folder inside with all the files. So you have to move that second folder up one level, just under the Themes folder.

Hmmm, but in that code snippet above, that would leave some of the code outside the /* and */. Is that correct?

I’m not sure if this is the correct way to do it, but it works. In the Dashboard>Design>Theme Editor files, I commented out all the references that were calling comments, like this:

<!-- <a href="<?php comments_link(); ?>" class="commentsLink"><?php comments_number('No comments','1 comment','% comments'); ?></a> -->

Everything between <!– and –> is what was there originally. I could have just erased it all, but this way I can add comments back later if I want. Go through each of the files (single.php, posts.php, etc) and do this for each one.