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yep, thats where I am at now .. aye aye aye ... back to the drawing board ...

thank you for all of your help Rod!

Kristen

oh boy, .. so I updated to the 4.1 or whatever new version of wordpress this is .. and I get that same problem of the lack of css in the dashboard. Its just all text and links. .. however, if I click on the + to add a new post the appearance is normal. .. its when I click on any sidebar link from there that I get the hyperlink text dashboard. ... Very strange. It must be a glitche within the new update.
Anyway, I backed up my site's database but now I feel like an idiot because I have no idea how to use the backup to restore the wordpress prior to the update. .. this is crazy! .. more banging head against the desk ..

Thank you Rod!

I was actually able to re-activate my old blog as I was still getting a blank blog page (white death page) with the new one, even with the correct database settings.
So now the old one is again the blog but I still have issues that I started with. The blog runs the full page without an option for a side bar and inside my dashboard there is no 'widget area as there should be ... so it seems I am somehow without widgets or asidebar that I used to have in my turninggate theme.
I did ensure that my plugins were installed ...

Any ideas as to how to get my widgets to show up so that I can populate the area?

Thank you!

PS thank you for the reminder not to hit my desk with my head too many times.. one more time and I am sure to have a concussion! lol

HI Rod,

It always did automatically update but for some reason this time it didn't .. so all I did was press update. And then problems...
Matt, it should have gone back to the default but it didn't ..
So now after reuploading the new blog I have this .. I am not sure how to do this with database name, etc. I am totally lost .. http://www.kristenwestlake.net/blog/wp- … php?step=1

Really want to re-establish my existing blog which I've kept but that doesn't work at all .. so is there a way to configure the new blog and enter in my old information? .. otherwise I guess I start fresh for the new year, eliminating anything I've done prior .. this is very frustrating (

I am so frustrated with the wordpress platform anyway. Things are just getting way out of control complicated .. thinking of just linking to a simple blogger.com blog that stays simple. What good is any blog if it goes awry simply by updating it .. and it isn't worth a day already spent and more time it will take me tomorrow to keep putting out fires that should have never been started by the darn wordpress site to begin with. .. makes me sad because I really LOVE the Turning Gate solution to wordpress, but wordpress itself is a pain!

Okay, I reinstalled my blog but now my admin panel looks really weird. I wish I could show you but its as if there is no css at all.. its just links and text.
I am not sure what files I need to transfer from my original blog other than config.php and my theme.

On a good note it seems that my pictures are working on the blog, except for the one that I blogged earlier today .. maybe has to do with the back up that my host does? ..
Other than that I have no idea how to get the plugins to come back or how to get this out of single page so that I can have a sidebar with plugins. Any help?

Thanks

PS .. and now my blog page is completely blank http://www.kristenwestlake.net/blog/
I took out the turning gate theme to see if that would help it but still blank .. ... this is so frustrating!

on another note, I am using classic ftp which really stinks. It uploads folders but doesn't implement all the sub folders so I am still uploading the new blog because I have to do it manually, folder by folder and file by file to ensure it all is put in. This is barbaric.

Anyone know of a better ftp for mac?

Hi Daniel and Rod,

Yikes, I applied all the changes in the link that Daniel sent but its still not working. I reset to default first and then when it didn't work I tried 'turninggate' as that is the theme that I want to use. I Have cleared my history and cache but still nothing.

I would redo the whole thing and install as Rod suggests but I sure would hate to lose my whole database! .. I had that happen a few years back and none of my pictures worked so I ended up deleting all of my blog posts .. years of work.

Any other suggestions or perhaps my cache clearing is just not catching up yet. .. do either of you see anything on the blog yet?

Thankyou so much Rod!

no, I don't want the nav menu to wrap. How can I fix that? I am not seeing it from my end but would like to fix it.

Can I change it in just pages if I have shared resources checked? or do I need to change this in every gallery template, auto index, etc that I have?

thanks Rod!

thank you!