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I feel your pain and often wonder why such maliciousness occurs. I guess it’s the monkey mob behavior kicking in…

put a mob of monkeys somewhere and inevitably, crap gets tossed at everything.

@root: I’d be interested in knowing what you find problematic with Fantastico installs. Frankly, I find the ones I use far superior to just using the install.php url – I get the option to set my own specific admin username and password, for instance, rather than being stuck with “Admin” and an auto-generated password.

I am obsessive as well. I am just not into wasting time doing something with a “hand tool” when the results with my “power tool” is exactly the same or better.

But I am still open to hearing what’s wrong with Fantastico.

can you ftp files to your web host? If so, you can look via your ftp client to confirm if your theme folder is in the themes directory.

I’ve been experiencing odd resets of the theme (different installs) from time to time, too. Where are you hosting?

I am getting the admin notification of a new registration, but as the registeree, I am getting nothing. Even on “lost your password” I am getting nothing.

I am off to check if somehow I am blocking the emails, but I don’t think so.

go into your database via whatever means your hosting company provides for you (typically phpMyadmin). click the link for the wp_options table. Browse that table’s contents and look for the option_name “blogurl” or option_id 1. Click the edit icon next to that entry.
In the edit screen, manually write the correct url into the option_value. (ikangaroo.com/blog/)

click the go button. I think that should do it – it should at least allow you to get to the correct page for logging into your wp-admin… from there, you can see if all is still correct. I’d go to the options (general) page and make sure that both the WordPress address and Blog Address were correct.

HTH

This seems counter productive to me. I’m struggling with it, too – 1 minute is too short and 1 yr too long and why is it set up in a way that requires someone to dig through core code? Is there a core function for password protecting a page that you can reference in a file (like page.php) where you could say:

`if (is_page(x)) {
wp_whateverfunctionforpassword(‘minutes’); }
else {whatever}
‘

where the function would either show a password field and button or not based on the state of the cookie?

I mean, I’m alright with modifying core files, but isn’t WP supposed to avoid having to do that?

I don’t understand why you are floating it in the first place. I’d change the meta paragraph to a div using that class and then use a list or paragraphs within for each line. OR, use line breaks. BTW, you are also using <br> in an xhtml document. It should be

<div class="meta">
<p>whatever you want here</p>
<p>whatever you want here</p>
<p>whatever you want here</p>
<p>whatever you want here</p>
</div>

or keep it a paragraph, use linebreaks to get separate lines. OR, us an unordered list and list items (most semantically correct, imo)

floating should be avoided unless it is the only thing that will do the trick. It’s buggy, especially in IE browsers. Sometimes declaring position:relative helps (or can add other types of bugs, but hey, that the drawback of floating). I’d never use the display:inline like suggested by someone above. If anything, if you simply feel you MUST float a span, you should declare display:block and use a width.

But none of that is even necessary. BTW, you can look at the generated source and see that the php is working. It is your css and markup that is the issue.

HTH