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January 1, 2006 at 8:15 am
I think I’ve shot the trouble. The comments.php file had gone west. I’m posting this from Internet Explorer 6.x. Now I’ll click “Submit” and see if it works.
January 1, 2006 at 8:16 am
Whoopee!!!!!!!!!!
That was hardly the ordeal I feared it would be. Now I’m going to restore my sidebar.php and see what happens.
January 1, 2006 at 8:19 am
Everything appears to be working now. Got to restore the RSS feed from Phillybits and it should be back to normal.
January 1, 2006 at 9:21 am
This comment is done from IE, but on Steve’s recommendation, I did download Opera & Firefox. I do have to keep IE, however, because the password program I have in IE doesn’t appear to work in either of the others. This comment is done from IE.
January 1, 2006 at 9:29 am
Thanks for the feedback. I’m glad to know it worked for someone else.
January 1, 2006 at 10:48 am
Looking good from IE, Frank.
January 1, 2006 at 1:20 pm
It was easier than I feared. I was afraid I was going to have to go through my sidebar.php file, which I’ve edited the heck out of, line by line.
I started by dropping the *.php files from the default theme into the directory one by one, and, as soon as I dropped in “comments.php” (which I haven’t edited, or at least don’t remember editing), the problem went away. In the meantime, though, I’d over-written my sidebar.php, so I restored from the CD backup I made in November.
Then I backed up the website and the blog database to CD.
This was too much like what I do at work.