solviturambulando

Thanks for your reply. When I checked with the web host, I was told that I had hit my database limit. I did increase it, and the web host resolved the problem.

Thanks — I tried your first link; I couldn’t access the cp option using the directions there. As far as the FHP solution, it’s a little too technical for my level of expertise. I have redirected the question to the wordpress link you provided.

Thanks — actually, with the help of the ServMask support person who could communicate more clearly I finally was able to piece it together and do the import at the new domain. So your help was not in vain.

Now that the new website, raymondwiggers.com, is up, I notice the text and photos of the old site were imported, but not the overall design template I’d used before. I gather this is normal in an import, and I have to redo all that — but correct me if I’m wrong.

Thanks again. I’ll keep your dev advice in hand if ever I get ensnared like this again.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Being an author rather than a web designer, I’m really technically and terminology-challenged here. When you say “install the ‘basic default installation of WordPress’ on your .com domain,” that sounds super-easy, but I’m not sure what that means. Do I just use the basic WordPress download found online, or is this accessible from my .org dashboard (if so, I don’t see it).

I did do the basic WP download online on my Windows 11 PC, and extracted/unzipped the files. but I can’t run the installation for some reason — in my downloads file I see a long list of files, including an install and install-help file — but nothing that runs the installation when clicked or opened. It wasn’t this difficult when I created my first WP site — but I think I’m barking up the wrong tree. Other downloads I’ve done recently automatically install.

Thanks for your patience. Please explain what I’m doing wrong or not seeing. I’ll get there.