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Jeez, you people are touchy. How many times do I have to apologize??? I never said anyone was being misleading? Confusing, perhaps but I did not imply anyone mislead.

Ok, I tried the hosted word press – better, a definate improvement. Cleaner dashboard, the write section is simpler and easier to use. At least you have a button to download an image, however it asks for a url location – what if you want to use an image on your hard drive? However in the end, it defeats the purpose for which I got my own url and hosting account.

“If you don’t want to use it, that’s your business, but don’t ask for it again, because that’s the only solution that I’m going to give you.” Thanks, great answer.

Are you trying to tell me that you just put this software out and let anyone do anything they want with it, including using it to attract customers to their hosting programs, and you take no responsibility or exercise any control over it??? Perhaps if you worked with some of these hosting companies you could provide them with the more “user-friendly” version of wordpress you offer as the hosted solution.

I might be willing to help you with that, but I doubt it. You seem to be too sensitive (I really don’t think my first post was THAT insulting) and mean spirited for me to want to deal with.

to the illustrated life – who are you to be insulting and calling people names? Like three times already I apologized for any insults – you want to be treated with respect yet you can certainly dish out the insults – AND I don’t even know who you are? What is your connection with wordpress? What are your creditials? As for DOT ORG I am a dot.org too, so keep your mean spirited remarks to yourself. As for idiot proof/plug-and-play – wordpress is definately not that. A quick search through these forums confirms that there are an awful lot of problems with this product and that I am not the only one having a tough time getting the templates to work correctly.

Again I apologize for my slights to whoever you are. How am I supposed to know that you are volunteers? Where does it say that on your web site?

Re: “if you like it, just download it.” Like what? I need to know what it is I am downloading. An index.php file could be anything.

As I mentioned I got WordPress through my hosting company and they will not support it. If you can’t understand that I am trying to work with your product and am very frustrated and if you are so easily offended and want to “pick and choose” who you support, perhaps you should be be foisting your software on the unsuspecting public.

vkaryl – again I apologize for my attitude but after two days of just trying to get a template to work, I am about ready to pull my hair out. At least, I didn’t call anyone a name. I don’t think you read all of my post – I thought I was on a word press hosted solution. The page you referred me to says nothing about hosting, only: Want a Blog? Get one now? Again, no real explantation as to what it is being offered. I also went to the other link you provided, read one of my previous posts.

Sorry if you think I was impolite, I am just very frustrated . I’ve read the “documentation” on themes several times but I still have a problem with the theme I uploaded. One of the other posts referenced a page for plug-ins but that was just a long list of what I assume are various products but there is no explanation as to what they are etc. I should think that having an image upload feature built into the blog from the start would be rather easy, expecially since almost every other blogware in the world has one.

OK, as far as support goes, I guess I am used to a different kind of support – endless searching for forums and posts really doesn’t make it for me – I am busy and do have time to make getting a peice of software to work a full time job. In relation to who you are, I was interested in whether this was a company with offices and telephone number – which apparently it is not. Re: the dashboard – I hit the link and this is what she had to say: “So I hacked the code, trimmed it of all fat and made it look lean and mean on an Atkins diet.” Hacked the code – I have no idea what that means. She also suggests that you download something with no explanation as to what it is that you are downloading. I downloaded the theme FROM YOUR CODEX and I followed the instructions exactly. “Ask the people who are offering them?”?? I don’t know how just yet to reply to that . . .

Well, I guess I am looking for a “quick-fix” – I am looking for USER FRIENDLY blogware. I took your advice and did a google search for “change dashboad” and found a post from someone who wanted to do the same thing I do. The reply referred a url that was nothing but code. As I said, I have previously searched the forums here and, for example, there was post that said you could easily upload images on the “manage” page – but there is nothing there but code!! If you need to write code to use this blog software why isn’t that mentioned up front? Who is Cron? Why do you feel the need to insult and call me “incompetent?” You know nothing about me except that I don’t write code nor do I really want to learn how to. I have used other blog software before and none of it was this difficult or confusing. I thought this would be a solution since it was part of my hosting package and I would be saved the anguish of trying to upload software to my hosting companies servers. I can guarantee you that right now and in the near future people like me will be looking for such a solution, and if they meet up with difficult programs like this, it will reflect negatively on both the software provider and the hosting companies who bundle such software.