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Yes spam.

The most common comment is one that praises the content. Makes newbie WordPress users get excited,thinking their blog is kicking off over night, first night!

Nope sorry to say but it might take a little longer and more traffic for real comments. Depending on your content, I estimate 2-3 genuine comments per day per 5000 visits. That is a rough guess at average from all my sites.

By way WordPress comes with Askimet, antispam plugin, signup for a key and enter that to activate it.

Bob, first thing to be clear about is what exactly your not happy with.

Is it data (settings, posts, categories etc)?

Or is it just the visuals, your theme?

Data is stored in MySQL database, your best deleting the database using your hosting control panel, but only do so if there are simply too many changes in the admin side of your blog for you to go correcting. You want a fresh blog so you can learn by seeing how WP is on installation, then that is part of it. Main step is just deleting all the blog files, keep in mind anything else that may be installed on your hosting/server and do not delete the wrong things.

If you have nothing else installed then you would normally end up with an empty public_html directory.

Then upload a newly downloaded copy of WordPress files. When you visit your site after upload, it should start the installation procedure.

Your hosting could also help you with this. Things like this, I do for my customers on my hosting. Most hosting allows installation of WordPress from the control panel so check that before uploading the WordPress files through FTP.

You just stick with esmi instructions if you simply want to reset the theme.

Hi

Here is what I recommend.

Install Firebug addon to your browser then use the Inspect Element feature to however over the header area and view the CSS that specifically creates the gap at the bottom of your header.

Will be border or padding maybe. Then you want to change the value from say 10 to 0.

Yes I get this when mass creating categories.

Right now I also have an issue with wp insert category not being defined.

Try this then, straight to a specific page…

/wp-admin/edit.php

Is your original site built using a CMS? Usually a CMS would cause such behaviour.

esmi is correct, you should be able to visit WordPress as a stand alone site within its own sub-folder on your server.

My themes code outputs different boxes so it might look a little complex. If you take away the various types of box content it gets simple…

!-- scrollable -->
			<div class="scrollable">
				<div class="items">
					<div class="featured">
						<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();?>
						<?php if( $postnum % 9 == 0 && $postnum !=0) : $postnum +9; ?>
						<div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
					</div>
					<div class="featured">
						<?php endif; ?>
						<?php $postnum = $postnum + 1;?>

<!--  if movie values -->
						<?php
						 $movie = get_post_custom_values("movie");
						 if (isset($movie[0])) {?>
						<div title="Click to flip" class="flip">
							<div class="flipWrap"> <img src="<?php $thumbnail = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_thumbnail_id(), 'portfolio');echo $thumbnail[0]; ?>" /> </div>
							<div class="flipData">
								<p class="flipContent"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><strong>
									<?php the_title(); ?>
									</strong></a><br />
									<?php excerpt('30'); ?>
									<br />
									<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">more details</a></span></p>
							</div>
							<a class="zoom-mov" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "movie", $single = true); ?>" rel="prettyPhoto[gallery]"> &nbsp;</a> </div>

<!--else image values -->
						<?php }else {?>
						<?php
							$key = 'alt-thumb';
							$themeta = get_post_meta($post->ID, $key, TRUE);

							// decide style
							if( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'wtgservice', TRUE) )
							{
								$thestyle = 'wtgservice';// currently has no css setup, simple causes no icon to be displayed
							}
							else
							{
								$thestyle = 'zoom';
							}

							if($themeta != '') {?>

<!-- if alt thumb do this -->
						<div title="Click to flip" class="flip">
							<div class="flipWrap"> <img src="<?php echo get_post_meta($post->ID, "alt-thumb", true);?>" /> </div>
							<div class="flipData">
								<p class="flipContent"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><strong>
									<?php the_title(); ?>
									</strong></a><br />
									test1<?php excerpt('30'); ?>
									<br />
									<a  class="readmore" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">more details</a></span></p>
							</div>
							<a class="<?php echo $thestyle; ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php $thumbnail = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_thumbnail_id(), 'full');echo $thumbnail[0]; ?>"rel="prettyPhoto[gallery]"> &nbsp;</a> </div>
<!-- else get the image values -->
						<?php } else { ?>
						<div title="Click to flip" class="flip">
							<div class="flipWrap"> <img src="<?php $thumbnail = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_thumbnail_id(), 'portfolio');echo $thumbnail[0]; ?>" /> </div>
							<div class="flipData">
								<p class="flipContent"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><strong>
									<?php the_title(); ?>
									</strong></a><br />
									test2<?php excerpt('30'); ?>
									<br />
									<a  class="readmore" href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">more details</a></span></p>
							</div>
							<a class="<?php echo $thestyle; ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" href="<?php $thumbnail = wp_get_attachment_image_src(get_post_thumbnail_id(), 'full');echo $thumbnail[0]; ?>"rel="prettyPhoto[gallery]"> &nbsp;</a> </div>
						<?php } ?>
						<?php }?>
						<?php endwhile;?>
					</div>
				</div>
<!-- end items -->
				<div class="clear">&nbsp;</div>
			</div>
<!-- end scrollable -->