Okay – I’ve made some progress here. This is to with paths. I had the 2.8.0 installation in a directory called /cgi-bin/wordpress and now I’ve installed it into the root and everything works. I’m presuming that I my hosting ISP is obfuscating the path somehow and foxing the path determining function. Where can I override the path settings?
Ironically with the theme trouble I’ve had I did a fresh install of 2.7.1 which also didn’t do what I expected and so I did an in place update to 2.8 which went fine.
Here’s an addendum, I also activated the Hello Dolly plug-in which happily does what it should on the dashboard and the admin pages and tools, but doesn’t display on the site main page either. Something awry here and I’m pondering the templates and styles paths – where are they defined?
And if you’ve tried setting the permissions to 777 the owner shouldn’t matter.
