abhideydas

you can use your internal authenciation system instead…

use a contact form plugin. the post will be emailed to you and you can choose whether or not to publish it. alternatively use can create a username/password and make it public. visitors will login with that and submit their articles for review.

just change the category base to whatever you want. and i don’t understand if you want to show people that you know it all, then why not set up a test system first and build your application before putting it up before the public!!!

go to Options>Permalinks and set up the clean URL. then the page http://ishimmer.net/?page_id=7 can also be called by http://ishimmer.net/about/ mimicking a real directory.

don’t get discouraged, we are here to help. in some servers directories created within a writable directory may not be writable by default. if its not too much of a trouble disable ‘Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders’ in the Options>Miscellaneous Page and make the permission of the directory in which you want to upload 777.

about the creation of the thumbnail, the name of the thumbnailed image is usually thumb-image.jpg where the name of the original image is image.jpg. please check whether you are accessing this image or not for some strange reason, WP dosen’t do it automatically.

it appears that you are not using clean URL’s in permalinks. turn on clean URL’s and make a page called About. the rest will be handled by the almighty wordpress.

may be you should try making your directories writable by CHMOD’ing them to 777. load a FTP program, right click on that directory, choose the CHMOD option and change the permissions.

or you can put this in your .htaccess file:
DirectoryIndex index.php