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From my experience, it can be your web server or the database server or your own connection….

Who is your hosting company? Try using one that maintains some sort of control panel with server status information AND a status blog for server issue alerts that you can subscribe to. then you will know if your db server or web server is down. It’s not unusual for admins to have to restart servers, particularly in shared environments, which is what you generally have, especially for cheap or free hosting.

Personally, I used Dreamhost for quite a while and hated them… having to pay for phone support where THEY get to call you when you need help? ew. I use Midphase or AN Hosting now and since they are the same company (different plans) and have phone support 24/7/365, pretty much. And I get the same control panel for all accounts – a time saver when it comes to adding domains, sub-domains, installing WordPress, managing the dbs, etc. Generally, I build a site in a sub-domain, then when ready, I move it to the actual domain. It takes me about 15-20 minutes to do this, but I have my own methods and have lots of experience at it. Don’t knock the documentation here…it’s extensive and mostly accurate. My method is about 5 steps, from backup, editing the sql table file to edit URLs and reinstalling elsewhere.

Moshu, I use Dreamweaver code view all the time to edit files for WordPress. I do most of my work in it, though I will say I don’t use the design view, EXCEPT when I initially build out a site layout — which I do statically. When I have what I want, I build out template files (header, footer, etc) putting the appropriate containers and markup where they are needed.

What a lot of folks don’t realize is that you *don’t* even have to stick with WordPress’s markup to use it — as long as you understand what the loop does and such. You *can* build a totally custom layout for index, page, category, etc AS LONG as you don’t plan to drop a theme on it.

so, DevonAnne, yes, you CAN use Dreamweaver, but don’t expect it to do much in design view. If you are comfortable with code view, it’s fine… I use the CS3 and CS4 versions on Windows XP and Windows Vista.

I agree with MoonbatWingnut, too — it’s NOT that hard to move the logic around if you understand some basics of ANY conditional logic… if, else, elseif, etc. Next is understanding the use of includes and getting familiar with the most used functions in WordPress itself. After a while, you find you know more than you think. Then, it doesn’t matter what layout you use, assuming you aren’t just theming your site(s).

It’s no different than building any php or asp site in the sense that you simply have to understand the recognized functions, logic and methods to tap into them.

I LOVE WordPress as a CMS and I LOVE the community that stands behind it – keeping it user-friendly and secure…

Just my two cents. I truly dislike themes as a starting point because you NEVER know what nastiness someone could put into them. Roll ‘yer own, I say!

Or, use ONE sidebar and conditional logic to display what you need for each view…? One file means one place to edit – that’s what I like about using a single file.

Note, too, per Frumph’s advice, that you *can* make an array of your logic

if (is_page('a') || is_page('b') || is_page('c')) {//do stuff here}

using additional elseif, else statments as necessary. Similar logic for category arrays can be found in the documentation…it’s not the same as for pages.

A theme is simply a folder that contains a style.css file that names the theme uniquely. By uploading that folder to your server into the themes directory, it is listed as an available theme from the Appearances section of your admin.

NOTE: no style.css file should have the same information at the top as any other…

To remove a theme, remove its theme folder from your server via FTP or File Manager or whatever means you use to access your hosting server.

Upload the new theme folder.

Note that if you DO use the same name in the style.css file, it will APPEAR that you cannot “change” the theme… but that is merely an appearance.

Ideally, if you name a theme in your stylesheet (eg.mytheme) you should put a version number by it. Then, when you update your theme by creating a NEW folder, you can increment the version number and KEEP the anme.

Hope that helps

I’m looking for an answer for this, too… my initial thought was that the “endif;” function would have to occur IN the footer below a second (or whatever number you needed) loop per the multiple loop examples in the documentation…

But that hasn’t worked as expected, though I supposed it could have been due to other issues rather than the occurrence of endif in the footer.php file.

Anyone know if closing the loop (using the endif portion there) is a problem? Would it be because the “get_footer” function is inside the loop?

Curious. Of course, I know I could simply redesign the layout for the bit I want to show up there so that my “footer” either ISN’T called/used at all or it comes AFTER the stuff that is currently placed in the footer.

Enquiring minds would love to get illuminated about closing a loop in an INCLUDED file rather than in the actual index, category, page, single or archive template…

Hey, there’s a setting in v2.8x in “Reading” (look in Settings in left column in admin) where you can set full text or summary… maybe this is affecting your content display.

HTH