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keesiemeijer, thanks for trying. When I did exactly what you suggested, inserting the code from popper right after the <?php tag, it caused the whole blog to crash again.

This is the error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_filter() in /..path../wp-includes/functions.php on line 2

I had to restore my old functions.php file from a backup to get the blog working again.

Any other ideas?

popper, thanks for the suggestion. You did not advise where to insert this code in the functions.php file. I tried inserting it at the end, and when I did, it caused my whole blog to crash. Fortunately, I kept a backup of the old functions.php file so I got the blog working again.

Any other ideas? I can’t believe I am the only one who has this issue — not wanting the ability for a commenter to have a URL (“website”) field. It used to be an easy fix with removing/commenting out one line of code in the comments.php file, but with the “improvement” with WP, that doesn’t work any more, either.

I’m still stumped. More advice with very specific suggestions on what to change and exactly where would be appreciated very much.

Esmi, I’m sorry, I don’t know what anti-hotlinking is. Is that a WordPress matter or a web host matter, and if it is not done, should I have it done? Is this something I can do or ask the web host to do? Sorry, this is beyond my current scope of knowledge as a hobbyist.

Update: my web host, Hostgator, inserted some additional code in my .htaccess file that now makes images appear when using I.E. to look at the blog, but not Firefox. I am working with them to resolve that issue. It turned out to be a situation that the web host can help me with, and not something with WordPress, albeit confusing. Thanks again. I will close this thread, as I consider it resolved. Thank you for your help!

Esmi, I sincerely appreciate how hard you are trying to help me.

I FTP’d to the site and can see the image name BHDMusewp14.jpg in the exact location that you say it is in. It’s there! However, like you, when I click on the link directly, I wind up on the error page.

Further, I uploaded an image for my first WordPress blog post
http://www.bootedmanblog.com/2012/04/23/soft-launch-of-new-blog/

and can see that image in the same folder. However, it won’t display, either.

I have no idea what’s wrong. The only possible reason why this is happening is that I have the domain for the blog hosted as a subdomain for a website. Perhaps that is the problem, and I need to contact the web host for answers about that.

I am giving up for the night… try again tomorrow, and if my web host can’t help me, and despite as hard as you have tried, I may just abandon WordPress and go back to Blogger. At least that was working, despite the awful new GUI that Google foisted on me.

esmi, thank you for your diligent follow-ups. Yes, as mentioned in my original post, the image that I want to have shown as a header appears exactly in the folder that you specified. In fact, it appears 14 times, which is how many times I have tried to upload it today. The system seems to change its file name with image sizes of crops that it is making all by itself (without showing me those changes) — but they are ALL there! Weird, huh? It won’t display a one of ’em!

btw… now that I have re-uploaded the header image, all I see is a huge box with a red “X” in the upper left. It appears this way on both IE and Firefox. That’s why I took it down before, because it apparently is reserving space for something. Perhaps it is a problem with my web hosting service. I have been concerned about the host’s server being very slow. Could that be it? The image is being called but not displayed because the server is too slow to bring it up, even though the file size is only 110kb?