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WordPress Origin Story

Been with it since 2003 or ’04. I wanted to get out of the html format of my website yet hated LiveJournal, Blogger, and the others because the stuff I wrote wouldn’t be mine. So I installed WP and have it for all my sites including a blog and several CMS.

  • Member Since: December 20th, 2004
  • Location: western NC, USA
  • Website: paulaoffutt.com
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  • Posted a reply to MailPoet spamming the site running it, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    So no answers? This isn't good.

  • Created a topic, MailPoet spamming the site running it, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    So after a long set of troubleshooting, my web host (D…

  • Created a topic, Put sidebar on main page, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I think I can live with the excerpts but to not have t…

  • Posted a reply to Broken site with any theme, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Not sure exactly what I did but it is working now. Even with another theme…

  • Posted a reply to Broken site with any theme, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The site does have a security certificate. If that were the case, then the https…

  • Created a topic, Broken site with any theme, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I was using the Author theme, no child. Then it starte…

  • Created a topic, Simple to use, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Simple to setup and implement.

  • Created a topic, Sudden font change., on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I am using a child theme to add mostly to the footer a…

  • Posted a reply to Static page with link to posts?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Yep! That worked! Thanks! I knew how to create a static front page so I…

  • Created a topic, Static page with link to posts?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm setting up a new blog site and "archiving" the old…

  • Posted a reply to Toolbar doesn’t appear, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thank you for your help!

  • Posted a reply to Toolbar doesn’t appear, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Huh. It's fixed it's broken images. Yay. But still in the way. Boo. How do…

  • Posted a reply to Toolbar doesn’t appear, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Okay. That mostly worked. It is on the left but covers up some of the…

  • Created a topic, Toolbar doesn’t appear, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    (I cannot provide a link to the website because the we…

  • Created a topic, Cannot activate WAF, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I get a red banner at bottom that says "Bad Request". …

  • Created a topic, FTP errors, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'm getting some errors trying to set up an FTP destin…

  • Posted a reply to Re-installation: install.php will not run, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    The hacker somehow got code into the functions.php file of a child theme. I had…

  • Posted a reply to Re-installation: install.php will not run, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Sorry. I broke my glasses and could not read my computer. Oh. Whatever Ipstenu did…

  • Posted a reply to Re-installation: install.php will not run, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Yes, the certificate file is there. I have no clue what the etc/ssl/certs path is.…

  • Created a topic, Re-installation: install.php will not run, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    My website got hacked and I thought I had it cleaned. …

  • Posted a reply to need to delete and reinstall – how?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    My webhost thinks it was doing via my FTP user but I'm not sure. I've…

  • Created a topic, need to delete and reinstall – how?, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Two of my websites were hacked by inserting js code fi…

  • Created a topic, Removing Author, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    I'd like to remove the line that puts in the post/page…

  • Posted a reply to Decreasing margin above header, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Did you try removing the margin-top line? And/or the padding line below it? Do one…

  • Created a topic, resizing header image, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    How can I resize the header image? I'm still looking t…