I decided to upgrade WordPress to the latest version(1.5.1) by going outside of cPanel and installing it in a new directory. I am not sure how it happened but my version of WordPress was ending up at a blank screen after a successful comment. I do not get that many comments but I found it annoying. A clean install of WordPress fixed this problem Another result of this change is that the RSS feed has now changed but I am pretty sure this doesn’t affect anyone.The big things I needed to do to make it work were:
- Copy the wp-config.php to the new directory.
- To make my photo appear in the header I needed to copy the personalheader.jpg from my old theme over to the new images directory in my theme, change the image position to bottom to truncate the sky part of the photo, and uncomment the headerimg line in the header.php.
- I prefer the title to be positioned at the bottom left of the header box. I also prefer a smaller font. So I changed the h1 header in the style.css. The css I used for the h1 element is now:
h1 {
font-size: 1.6em;
text-align: left;
padding: 10px;
position:relative;
top:80px;
}