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Thanks you are quiet right.  I was puttiing in the correct structure in the wrong dir

dur!

Thanks so much for your help

Catherine

hi I did that but it doesn't show, and by the way thank you and  yes that makes sense.

details: http://blog.seoherts.co.uk/wp-admin , Catherine Joyce, testingmyblog

should get you in, and thanks!

ps dir structure now themes/ubiquity

Thanks for helping Marcus.  I'm probably being very obtuse.  I've done as you instructed, as far as I could.  I couldn't unzip the file in /themes/new/ubiquity.zip.  Instead I unzipped the file and copied the extracted files in their directory i.e. /themes/new/ubiquity/*.php files and associated dirs.  I then logged into WordPress > Appearance > Themes and searched around but I know I'm missing out something important.

I wish I could get WP to just upload the zip file, but it totally ignores me, it's not even very big!

I think I need a coffee!

HI

I'm still plugging away at getting to grips with my companies personalized blog.  I've been trying for the past two days to upload a theme to my own test Wordpress blog, in order to correct a bug in the companies theme that makes formatting in the Post disappear.  The code in the themes CSS file seems to be fine.

Anyhow what I assumed would be a simple step has given me hours of hassle.

I have finally got to the point of uploading an unzipped version of the theme intot ‘/wp-content/themes/’.

Now try as I might my Wordpress admin is completely blind to the fact.

Any attempt at using the Upload facility (which is what I attempted many hours ago) fails.  There seems to be no place to say, look out there at my directory - a new original theme - unzipped and ready to go.

Am I missing something very obvious?

Thank you for you response.

I've looked at the Style sheet via the Visual editor.  For 'em' and 'strong' I have:

strong {
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #000;
}
cite,
em,
i {
    font-style: italic;
    border: none;
}

Which is identical to the default style sheet I have loaded in my test WP account which does display 'i' and 'b' in the browser.  The above code is within a company theme - style sheet.  I can't see anything wrong!

I'm going to ask the developer for a copy of the theme to put on my dummy site.

Will let you know how I get on.

Thanks again

The and _formatting tags format the text in the WYSIWYG editor but not in the browser (I've tried in Firefox and Internet Explorer.  It doesn't help if I add non depreciate Html _and Is this a theme Issue?  Is there a way to fix it?  Does anyone know why and are added instead of and ?__

Thank you I will

Regards

Catherine

Hi Aaron, thanks for you reply.  I must admit it went over my head a bit.  I've only just started in Wp.  I need to be able to add a description to the post for SERPs and to meet the criteria outputted by my query to the SEOmoz onpage optimization tool.  I don't want any fancy stuff (or my head will explode).  Equally I don't want to add plugins for every problem I meet.

I've added  some code in the header to create a generic description from a tagline I entered in General Settings, just as an experiment.  It (the generic description) now appears in my blogs header, which I definitely don't want.

Is adding a facility to add a unique meta description (not displayed) very technical?  If so maybe I'd be better off adding yet another plugin.

Thanks again

Catherine

Could anyone recommend a plugin for creating wordpress post descriptions.  There is a confusingly large selection of choices in the wordpress plugins directory.

I will.  The penny has dropped and you and Thomas has cleared up my confusion.

Thank you very much for you help

Catherine

Ta Ta and Ta again.  I have been getting so worked up about this.  Daft I know!

Thanks

Catherine

Thank you Dejan - would that be better than adding

Gosh that was quick.  It's on it's own server I can get access to the header,php.  I've been happy setting up 'Google Analytics' in the footer, for example.

My problem is getting my head around WP.  I've done years of HTML, CSS and dreamweaver.  I'm assuming I need to add the

Having read Rand's post about the canonical tag I very much wish to use it to advise Google that the duplicates created during archiving (due to the fact that the posts have multiple categories) are just copies.

I understand the theory, but can't transfer it into practice!  Could someone give me an idiots guide as to how to add the tag and to where.  My site produces approx 10 - 20 blog posts per week.  Each has at least 2-4 categories applied to it.  They are archived each month, at which point I have  a big jump in duplicates in my campaign panel.

Help!

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