Title: Issue with the loop, challenge for help
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Issue with the loop, challenge for help

 *  [rowtheboat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rowtheboat/)
 * (@rowtheboat)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-the-loop/)
 * OK, this one is going to take some explaining; it’s very tricky because I don’t
   know where the problem arises.
 * So I’ve been toying around with the loop to make a sort of WP driven CMS. That
   way all the contributors only need to enter a post and specify a certain category
   and the post will go to a certain area on the main page.
 * Now this layout is very rough, but if you check out [http://honestboston.com/Blog](http://honestboston.com/Blog),
   you can see what I mean. All three columns are filled with posts, but the category
   ID determines what goes where. That was just a template, but it worked.
 * When I switched over to [http://chapelhillvoice.com](http://chapelhillvoice.com),
   however, moved all the files, including exporting the old posts, categories, 
   etc via the WP manage feature, the site stopped working partially.
 * This is what I find peculiar: Because my strategy relies on including in each
   column a unique loop.php file that includes and excludes categories using a post
   query, it should work so long as those category IDs exist, which they do. The
   middle and right columns do not work, but the left column does.
 * How can this be when I have changed none of the code or the category IDs? Is 
   there any way it could relate to my switch to a different server?
 * Thanks so much for any help. I know that was verbose.

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 *  [ripose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ripose/)
 * (@ripose)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-the-loop/#post-843438)
 * How did you transfer your Database?
    Did you use your server’s MySQL/PHPMyAdmin
   program to import it? Did you check your new Database Tables?
 * Have a great day!
 *  Thread Starter [rowtheboat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rowtheboat/)
 * (@rowtheboat)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-the-loop/#post-843508)
 * When I tried to use PHPmyAdmin, I just got a 1044 error saying I didn’t have 
   permission, but I didn’t understand whether that was for the old server or the
   new server.
 * So, I transported the stuff using the built-in wordpress export/import feature.

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 * [query](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/query/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [rowtheboat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rowtheboat/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-the-loop/#post-843508)
 * Status: not resolved

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