writerpeter

No matter what remedy I try, I cannot get the full posts to display on a separate page somewhere. They are all truncated,with a Continue Reading button, even though I have specified that the full text show up in four different places:
1) on the Settings/Reading screen
2) on the Appearance/Tempera settings/Post excerpts screen
3) on the Appearance/Tempera Settings/show posts on Presentation screen,/”Enable.”
4) on the Menu screen, where I have a page named “Blog”. When I choose “Show posts on a static page called Blog, instead of on the Presentation page, I still get truncated posts and the Continuation button gets you to a blank page called Author Peter Green without any post at all on it. see for yourself at http://www.peterhgreen.com., I use Windows 8.1 on a 64-bit machine.

Disabling all plug-ins has no different effect, and activating Twenty Fifteen, the default them produces the same result. I did not have this problem in WordPress 4.1.0, but I have it in 4.1.1 with tow different themes. I will report it as a possible bug to WordPress.

Hey, W.,

Many thanks for your response and your interest. I’ll try working with this information tomorrow!~
Best, Peter

Mr. Slade,
Sadly, Yahoo was no help at all. The fool who “helped” me, despite my instructions to back it up, erased the subfolder where my entire Website’s WordPress database and all settings were stored. They do take snapshots of the condition of the site regularly, but I found that restoring the site requires using folder which was erased.
My database was backed up in what BlueHost calls raw data format, and not in the SQL format that they require, and since the site is damaged, they can’t do anything, evn if paid, to transfer it over. I have stored the backup files in a new folder on the BlueHost website and the files look like this:
falbum.frm, -MYD and -MYI
wp_bas_pages.frm,-MYD and -MYI
wp_comments.frm,-MYD and -MYI
wp_options.frm, -MYD and -MYI
wp_psots.frm,-MYD and -MYI

If you have any clues about how to direct the config file to use these files or put them into an SQL database so tehy can be resotred, I’d sure be happy to know. Best Peter

Many thanks for your interest.

Okay, I have solved the first issue: under Tempera Settings. on the Presentation Page screen, teh cryout columns have to be set to “Widget Columns” in the drop-down menu.
I still don’t know how to get the Continue Reading to work on the continue atinof the post or to begin creating posts to a page called Blog.
Any suggestions would still be most welcome.

Right, Mr. Slade,
With my Yahoo host, it’s easy to reinstall WordPress. I have done about three installations over seven years, and since I was afraid to delete anything, I have several sets of files. I think I may be on my own with this one, since I’ll have to do some sleuthing and experimentation to see how to get the right files into the new WordPress installation, which works, by the way, but it still shows a generic homepage. I can always reload the one theme I use, which is Tempera.
1) Before that, I did rename the plugins directory, but it was the wrong one, and it may be okay, since Yahoo forces you to install subsequent installations into a sub directory, and apparently my correct plug-ins directory still exists in peterhgreen.com > blog > wp-content > plugins. The new istallaton is in peterhgreen.com > wordpress > wp-content > plugins. If I can figure out how to move the right content files into this new sub directory, I suppose it will work.
2) Yes, I did redirect the normal WordPress login to word press.com/blog where the previous installation seems somehow to reside.

I guess where I could use some guidance would be: a) where to restore the recent database backup, since this will get me pretty close to the latest state of development, and
b) how to reset the wp admin panel, so I can do this stuff form inside WordPress, rather than the risky business of working in my host’s File Manager.

Thanks, again, for your interest in and patience with my inadequate knowledge of this topic. The need to learn all this new stuff once I had retired and thought I know how to do many things has been a continuing shock to my system! 🙂
Peter

Thanks, everyone for your advice. Reloading the theme and disabling any plug-in that filters comments has restored the comment function. Peter

Esmi, I have tried what you suggested,and, yes, I can get to a comment box. Is there any way for me to keep the Twenty Eleven theme? I have invested a lot of time in customizing it and would hate to lose it. I really need SEO and the WordPress Anti-spam plug-in. Thanks for your help. Peter

By the way, the reason the site got redirected when I tried to change it was that I improperly identified my URL as a WordPress.com site, rather than a ww.wp.xz.cn site, which it is.