Terry Sutton (saltcod)
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Fixing My WordPress Site…Need Some Advice ( PowerPress Tips)Hey Velanche!
So, you shouldn’t need to worry about the podcast links breaking. As long as WP knows what the new site address is, everything else should take care of itself.
And it’s easy enough to “start from scratch” with WP. Just make sure you’ve got everything backed up first. That said, if everything works, you shouldn’t need to get a fresh copy of WP — when you update (current version is 3.7), that will get you all the latest files.
What I would to is download an exact copy of the site to MAMP and play with it there — plugins and everything. You won’t have to worry about destroying the entire thing then. When you get the site the way you want it, you can upload the new files and database from MAMP to your live site.
Let me know if you need more detail on specifics here. Good luck!
Terry
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Multiple entries specific to userUnless I’m missing something from what you’re describing, this can easily be done.
If users aren’t logged in, you can just put a field in your form for UserName or similar. Then you’ll have a record of every time a user fills out the form.
If the user is logged in to the WP site, you can also grab their user id as well.
It sounds like this is totally possible.
Terry
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: tried to move my WP InstallHey cinnamonstix
Have you seen Moving WordPress? That’s a very good, highly detailed guide.
It sounds like you haven’t yet told WordPress about where you’ve moved. If you go to Settings > General and adjust the WordPress and/or Site address to reflect the new location, that should do the trick for you.
Terry
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Starting From ScratchIf you truly want to start from scratch, I’d recommend deleting and re-creating the database, rather than just deleting everything from WordPress.
You’ll want to make sure you’ve got a backup of everything though!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Multiple entries specific to userHey zackmack
Not 100% sure what you’re looking to do here, but there are several WordPress form plugins. Contact Form 7 is one of the more common free ones, and Gravity Forms is probably the most common commercial plugin.
With either of these you can have users fill out and submit a custom form that you create.
Hope this helps.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: I Keep Getting A Fatal Error Code Can not reach admin panel or siteThat’s a bit weird! Was it working before you did something?
The first step would be to disable all plugins — since you can’t get at the Dashboard, the only way for you to do that would be to remove them from your wp-content/wp-plugins folder via FTP. Try moving them and see if that restores your Dashboard. If it does, add the plugins back one-by-one to find the one causing the issue.
These issues are very often caused by a plugin issue.
Good luck!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Fatal error: Cannot redeclareHey CeraorSarah!
In your child theme’s functions.php file, try removing the ‘twentyeleven_excerpt_length()’ function— it appears to already be getting that from the parent them.
If that doesn’t work or you can’t find it, remove everything in functions (back it up first!) and slowly add each function back until you find the culprit.
If THAT doesn’t work, you should be able to remove or rename your theme and that will force WordPress to switch back to a TwentyThirteen or TwentyTwelve — that will at least make things work again.
Good luck!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Transferring to new domain nameI use and love Duplicator http://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/duplicator/
Here’s how you use it:
1. Install Duplicator on the old site and create an export “package”
2. Download two files from the old site: a zip of the files and a php file
3. Move these two files to your new web host — make sure the new site directory is completely empty
4. Navigate to the .php file and follow the directionsDuplicator will change all of the urls for you. Give it a try, it’s really really good.
Best of luck!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Cannot import WordPress.com blog into ww.wp.xz.cn siteHey there,
Ok. So here’s the thing: the importer will download all of your images only if it needs to. If you already have the images in your Media Library, it won’t download them again — it will give you those “Media already exists errors”.
> there is nothing that imported into my .ORG site from my exported .COM blog except a few categories, some media images and a load of tag
So none of your posts or pages were imported? That’s really really weird.
Again, the only thing I can suggest is to delete everything — posts, pages, cats, tags, menus, media — and import again. Other than that, I’ll really need to see some screenshots to be able to help.
Terry
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Cannot import WordPress.com blog into ww.wp.xz.cn siteRight. Looks like you’re not deleting your media first. Or else, it already exists from a previous import and is fine.
Did you posts/pages import ok? Are the images hooked up right there?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Cannot import WordPress.com blog into ww.wp.xz.cn siteok. So.
You’ve got an export file (xml) from .com, and a blank self-hosted site.
You need to make sure that there’s literally nothing in the new site. No posts, pages, menus, photos, nothing.
When the new site is completely blank, go to Tools > Import > WordPress and go through that install screen. Then upload the xml file and let WP do it’s thing. That should import all of your posts, pages, media, etc…(Make sure to click “Download media files” or whatever that option is at the bottom of the import screen.
(you can’t upload images here either. You’ll need to use a third party service for that — imgur or similar —and post them here.)
Good luck!
Terry
Same issue here. Is this plugin no longer in active development?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Columns] HRs not showing up inside [column-group]Humm — lets see if this pastes in any sensible way
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In reply to: [Columns] HRs not showing up inside [column-group]Should have mentioned that I tried this with 2012 and the latest 2013.
Yeah, thanks @roblagatta. That did the trick.