http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Tag: change en Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:30:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334704#post-1291044 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:07:43 +0000 addinall 1291044@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks MichealH.</p> <p>I got everything to work except one arbitory text widget that refused to display for some reason. I found it in the database, copied the HTML out of the record, then I re-added the widget to the right-bar and it worked??? I will compare the working one with the none working one. I have a feeling I may have lost or added a charecter on the transfers.</p> <p>I changed all the perma links to localhost. This will work when I send it back up to a live server. Same as Chameleon, JOOMLA! or Drupal. Not sure why arbitary literals where used in the database.</p> <p>But, all fixed now. Pretty smooth sailing compared to Drupal! ;-)<br /> (That's why I wrote Chameleon ;-))</p> <p>Now, to play with the CSS!.... </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334704#post-1290974 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:11:29 +0000 addinall 1290974@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Fixed the password using SQL. Ta. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334704#post-1290973 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:10:48 +0000 MichaelH 1290973@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Q1. look at <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress">Moving WordPress</a> and use <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/</a> to replace references to old domain with new domain</p> <p>Q2. See <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password">Resetting Your Password</a></p> <p>Q3. That's one good way to do it. Also could install WordPress in a subfolder on your live server so access at mydomain.com/blog. Then when ready to go live and to make WordPress available at <a href="http://mydomain.com" rel="nofollow">http://mydomain.com</a> just change in Settings-&gt;General, the Blog address (URL) to <a href="http://mydomain.com" rel="nofollow">http://mydomain.com</a> and put this index.php file in your web-root folder (it is the same folder that contains the blog folder)</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php /* Short and sweet */ define(&#39;WP_USE_THEMES&#39;, true); require(&#39;./blog/wp-blog-header.php&#39;); ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>Then update your permalinks in Settings-&gt;Permalinks. for example, then put </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/334704#post-1290933 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:56:51 +0000 addinall 1290933@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi, new here. I haven't used Wordpress before, but have written my own CMS (Chameleon) and used JOOMLA! and Drupal over the years. Used lots of PHP and mySQL, and I know to RTFM! I just did a major search for this issue but can't seem to resolve it myself.</p> <p>I just inherited a partly finished Wordpress site. The origional programmer got bored and went on holiday. So...</p> <p>I downloaded Wordpress on one of my Windows development machines. Work like a charm. </p> <p>I went over to the current site and zipped up the entire public www area so as not to miss anything. Unpacked it under my WAMP document root.</p> <p>Changed the config.php file to reflect my database user, password, domain etc.</p> <p>Used phpMyAdmin on the current site and did a full SQL export.</p> <p>I imported it as is and it failed all over the place, so I figured the URLs were wrong. After a bit of a search I found out that locations are stored in the database as literals, rather than using PHP constants and the like.</p> <p>So, I opened the SQL dump with vi() and....</p> <p>:%s/theolddomain.com/localhost\/wp/g</p> <p>223 substitutions.</p> <p>Now it ALMOST works. The index page comes up correctly (without images, I can probably figure that out). One of the links on the page points to what-now from a built link on the index page.</p> <p>On the old (and still working site) I position the cursor over the link and reports (the browser) that the jump is going to be to</p> <p><a href="http://theolddomain.com/what-now/" rel="nofollow">http://theolddomain.com/what-now/</a></p> <p>On the WAMP server, doing the same thing reports:</p> <p><a href="http://localhost/wp/what-now" rel="nofollow">http://localhost/wp/what-now</a></p> <p>On the WAMP server, selecting this gives me a URL not found error. Strangely enough, because it doesn't exist. It doesn't exist on the working site either, so back into the database with vi() and I find</p> <p> 'what-now', '', '', '2009-11-07 22:17:29', '2009-11-07 12:17:29', '', 0, 'http://localhost/wp/?p=71', 0, 'post', '', 0),</p> <p>As it turns out, this data rows has the id of 71 and it contains the content that should be being displayed.</p> <p>As part of a row record, so I figure that the _REQUEST ?p=71 means something to Wordpress that I haven't got right.</p> <p>Any ideas on how to get this to work? I just came to a screeching HALT!</p> <p>Q2. How do I reset a Wordpress admin password? It was never written anywhere.</p> <p>Q3. General question, I'll look for it on this site. But is it common for Wordpress developers to code on a development machine then publish up to a live server? This seems to be an awful lot of work to change machines/domains. Am I missing something VERY BASIC? ;-)</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Mark. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/330951#post-1289707 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:12:09 +0000 cais 1289707@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Perhaps a link to your blog will shed some additional details ... </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333854#post-1289178 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:19:27 +0000 benedetta 1289178@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thank you! you've been really helpful. Fortunately the website and log-in page were still working after the URL change, as it was re-directing it automatically to the new URL... so I was still able to log-in. I logged in as usual and changed the WordPress address (URL) and theBlog address (URL) to the new address to avoid confusion and it worked out. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/330951#post-1289132 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:48:51 +0000 cstina 1289132@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Okay, I'm getting somewhere!</p> <p>I did what you said above.</p> <p>1) Replaced the &lt;title&gt; tags in the header.php with this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;title&gt;&lt;?php if ( is_single() ) { single_post_title(); _e(&#39; | &#39;); bloginfo(&#39;name&#39;);} elseif ( is_home() || is_front_page() ) { bloginfo(&#39;name&#39;); _e(&#39; | &#39;); bloginfo(&#39;description&#39;); get_page_number(); } elseif ( is_page() ) { single_post_title(&#39;&#39;); _e(&#39; | &#39;); bloginfo(&#39;name&#39;); } elseif ( is_search() ) { bloginfo(&#39;name&#39;); print __(&#39; | Search results for &#39;) . wp_specialchars($s); get_page_number(); } elseif ( is_404() ) { bloginfo(&#39;name&#39;); _e(&#39; | Not Found&#39;); } else { bloginfo(&#39;name&#39;); wp_title(__(&#39; | &#39;)); get_page_number(); } ?&gt;&lt;/title&gt;</code></pre> <p>2) Added the following to functions.php:</p> <pre><code>// Get the page number function get_page_number() { if ( get_query_var(&#39;paged&#39;) ) { print &#39; | &#39; . __( &#39;Page &#39;) . get_query_var(&#39;paged&#39;); } } // end get_page_number</code></pre> <p>Result?</p> <p>All of my Pages and Posts *are* Bookmarking correctly now. THANK YOU!</p> <p>However, my main page at "mydomain.com" is still bookmarking as "Home" - and I do not have a single Page/Post or anything indicated in my Blog Name or Tagline (in General &gt; Settings) as "Home."</p> <p>I cannot figure out where the "Home" Bookmark name is coming from.</p> <p>Ideas?</p> <p>Ty so much. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333854#post-1288371 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:26:43 +0000 buddha trance 1288371@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>A small example:</p> <p>currently in your admin settings, you have</p> <p>WordPress address (URL): test.url<br /> Blog address (URL): test.url</p> <p>(assuming that your blog is in the root directory)</p> <p>if you are locked out from your blog, after the server gives you the new url, you access your database, and following the video, in wp_options table you change</p> <p>siteurl: new.url (should be line 1 of wp_options)<br /> home: new.url (look around line 39-40 of wp_options) </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333854#post-1288352 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:19:15 +0000 buddha trance 1288352@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Backing up the database before attempting any changes, is always a good idea. Look also at the other video he mentions, on changing the url in the wp_options table<br /> <a href="http://educhalk.org/blog/changed-wordpress-blog-address-in-settings-locked-out-how-to-fix/" rel="nofollow">http://educhalk.org/blog/changed-wordpress-blog-address-in-settings-locked-out-how-to-fix/</a></p> <p>You basically have to put the correct url (the final one, after the server changes it) in "site url" and "home", as indicated in the video.</p> <p>I am thinking that if you fix it through phpMyAdmin, directly in the database table, pointing to the final url, when you point the browser to that address, the blog will appear as usual.</p> <p>Hope this helps. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333854#post-1288254 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:01 +0000 benedetta 1288254@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Thanks for your help, </p> <p>do I need to backup the whole database? The site won't change location in the the server it's just the URL name that will change...Do I have to go through all that process shown in the video?</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333854#post-1288195 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:20:45 +0000 buddha trance 1288195@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>You can always change the url by accessing the database, check this video tutorial<br /> <a href="http://educhalk.org/blog/the-difference-between-fixing-and-patching/" rel="nofollow">http://educhalk.org/blog/the-difference-between-fixing-and-patching/</a></p> <p>Also, this will help you<br /> <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333854#post-1288186 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:13:42 +0000 songdogtech 1288186@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress">Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex</a>, <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL">Changing The Site URL « WordPress Codex</a>, <a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory">Giving WordPress Its Own Directory « WordPress Codex</a>. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333854#post-1288167 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:03:02 +0000 benedetta 1288167@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi</p> <p>I have a question. I have built a wordpress site in the root directory on a server. The URL wasn't active yet, so I have been given a test.url in the meantime. So I set up the wordpress website with the test.url address. Now the new URL address is about to get activated and it will point to the root directory and the test.url address will become the normal URL address. </p> <p>What's the procedure for changing URL, when the site will be sitting in the same root and only the url changes? Im not sure when this transfer is going to happen exactly. Is it just a matter of changing the URL name in the wordpress settings, if so when exactly should I do this, because Im scared I wont be able to access the site if I don't do this change before the URL changes...</p> <p>Any help would be much appreciated.</p> <p>Thanks</p> <p>Bene </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/329189#post-1287277 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:17:37 +0000 mikekmikek 1287277@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I have the same problem!! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333483#post-1287038 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:15:16 +0000 esmi 1287038@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL" rel="nofollow">http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL</a> </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/333483#post-1286874 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:58:12 +0000 lewisss 1286874@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi there,</p> <p>I'm pretty new to WordPress and recently I've been trying to get my new site working by trial and error. The site is a simple blog which feeds into a BigCartel online store.</p> <p>Yesterday I asked my host to record a CNAME which redirected my registered domain address (eg. <a href="http://www.lewisss.co.uk" rel="nofollow">www.lewisss.co.uk</a>) to my BigCartel store. Everything seemed fine, the only issue was that now, to login to my WordPress blog (www.lewisss.co.uk/blog/news), I had to first login to my BigCartel store, then head to my BigCartel blog page (where the WordPress blog was fed in) then click 'Older Posts', then replace the URL with <a href="http://www.lewisss.co.uk/blog/wp-admin" rel="nofollow">www.lewisss.co.uk/blog/wp-admin</a> to sign in to WordPress. If I tried to sign in to WordPress without first signing in to - and clicking through - BigCartel, I'd just get a 'Oops, we couldn't find that page' message from my BigCartel site.</p> <p>Anyway... this was annoying, but manageable. But then, in an attempt to simplify things (and out of ignorance, I admit) I did a bit of tinkering in the WordPress General Settings, hoping to somehow fix it so I could log straight back into WordPress like before. So where it said SITE URL I changed it from <a href="http://www.lewisss.co.uk/blog" rel="nofollow">www.lewisss.co.uk/blog</a> to <a href="http://www.lewisss.co.uk." rel="nofollow">www.lewisss.co.uk.</a> </p> <p>And then everything messed up and now I can't seem to access my WordPress site from anywhere. Can anyone help? I guess what I did is screw my WordPress site up by giving it the same main URL as I'd previously re-directed to BigCartel - is that so? And if so, how can I fix it? </p> <p>So grateful for any help or advice...</p> <p>Thanks!</p> <p>PS: lewisss.co.uk is just a made-up address for the purposes of illustration! </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332997#post-1285847 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:04:33 +0000 alchymyth 1285847@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>look into the style.css of the theme, and search for 'font-family:' - then put your new fonts first after the colon :<br /> for instance:<br /> <pre><code>body { font-family: &quot;Lucida Grande&quot;, &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; }</code></pre> <p>make sure to wrap font names with more than one word into quotation marks, as in the example above.</p> <p>if you want just Helvetica, delete the other font names to the left of it.<br /> in the example - delete '"Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Verdana, ' </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332825#post-1285841 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:58:51 +0000 t31os_ 1285841@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>You know, i never login when accessing from another PC, so i thought i'd better confirm if it works..</p> <p>Logged in from another PC under a test account. Sitting look at the administration panel right now. I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but for the sake of verfiying it works..</p> <p>Can you paste the error in it's entirety here please? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332825#post-1285829 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:51:58 +0000 Rakeki 1285829@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>yes i have a static LAN address when i use my LAN for the website it works fine... but as soon as somebody on my LAN connects to the website and logs in it attemps to connect to the MYSQL on their computer i know this because the URL box stated "localhost" before timing out and reciving a database error </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332825#post-1285821 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:45:47 +0000 t31os_ 1285821@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Oh right, my bad, i didn't realise you were referring to the wp-config line, i was thinking you meant the blog url settings etc... which had me confused..</p> <p>Pretty sure we're both successfully doing what the original poster is asking about then, except we seem to have a bit more luck... :) </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332825#post-1285790 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:07:51 +0000 apljdi 1285790@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p><strong>@ t3los_</strong><br /> It is PHP that is connecting to MySQL, not the browser, and PHP runs on the server, and since PHP and MySQL are on the same machine (at least right now) using localhost as my DB_HOST in wp-config.php works fine. My 'home' and 'siteurl' are set to the server's static IP, of course, for the reasons you mention. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332825#post-1285755 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:36:25 +0000 t31os_ 1285755@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p><strong>@ apljdi</strong><br /> How do your lan PC's see the page if it's using localhost, localhost will resolve to the PC you're viewing on will it not? You'll see the page, but any stylesheet links etc, should point to invalid locations.. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332825#post-1285751 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:32:22 +0000 apljdi 1285751@http://wordpress.org/support/ <blockquote><p>okay when i change it to ('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); put define('DB_HOST', 192.168.?.?); </p></blockquote> <p>No. You are supposed to substitute the one for the other.</p> <p>Replace:</p> <pre><code>define(&#39;DB_HOST&#39;, &#39;localhost&#39;);</code></pre> <p>With:</p> <pre><code>define(&#39;DB_HOST&#39;, 192.168.?.?);</code></pre> <p>Of course, you need to substitute your actual IP address. I don't know that this will help though, honestly. I connect to my development installs from half a dozen computers inside the LAN and I use 'localhost' in the wp-config. I only suggested it because your first post implied that MySQL was trying to connect to the wrong machine(s).</p> <p>Do you have a screen shot of the login error?</p> <p>Also:</p> <blockquote><p>i know all about DHCP lol and you can disable this feature </p></blockquote> <p>So this means that your server does have a static IP right? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332825#post-1285666 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:23:03 +0000 t31os_ 1285666@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Well i can't see what the issue is, all i've done to get it working here is change the blog/web URL to my local IP, and all local PCs are able to view the page.</p> <p>Does anything come up at all for the other PCs when connecting to the IP, or does it just timeout / page not found? </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332825#post-1285560 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:39:00 +0000 Rakeki 1285560@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>i know all about DHCP lol and you can disable this feature </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332825#post-1285492 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:14:16 +0000 Rakeki 1285492@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>okay when i change it to ('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); put define('DB_HOST', 192.168.?.?); i cannot connect to the wordpress myself </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332997#post-1285355 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:53:50 +0000 jackdsargeant 1285355@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hello!<br /> I run a Wordpress.org blog at <a href="http://anf1blog.com" rel="nofollow">http://anf1blog.com</a> and am currently running the magazine basic theme. I want to change all of the font on the site to helvetica or arial or something like that. How do I go about doing that?<br /> Kind regards,<br /> Jack </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332825#post-1285300 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:57:30 +0000 t31os_ 1285300@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>I use my lan IP for my local installation, the thing that caught me out was the IP problem, most routers give these via DHCP, which means it changes each time you refresh the connection, reconnect, reboot, or whatever...</p> <p>Please realise i'm not talking about the IP your router gets (your ISP IP address), incase there was any confusion, but the internal local IPs (ie. the IP addresses the router assigns to the PCs on the local network). </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332825#post-1285261 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:46:26 +0000 apljdi 1285261@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Change the setting in your wp-config.php file. Instead of <code>define(&#39;DB_HOST&#39;, &#39;localhost&#39;);</code> put <code>define(&#39;DB_HOST&#39;, 192.168.?.?);</code></p> <p>This part of t3los_'s post you did not say you did-- 'just be sure to set your PC to a static IP'. Good idea. </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/332825#post-1285128 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:26:47 +0000 Rakeki 1285128@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>ive done that =/ and i said ive done that with my first post &gt;.&lt; </p>