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[resolved] Changing WP address breaks site (3 posts)

  1. zavoq
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    Forgive me if this seems like a noobish question, I am new to WordPress:

    We have recently finished designing a new site for our company using WP. Last night, I redirected my name-servers. When the change had propagated I checked the site and noticed that the name in the address bar is still showing as the ip address instead of my site URL.

    I updated all of the hard-coded button links which fixed the majority of the site, but has not fixed the posts as they are generated by WP. After doing some searching I found that I need to update any WordPress address and Site Address in the General Settings section to my actual URL instead of the ip address.

    When I make this change it seems to break the CSS stylesheets (or at least does not load them) and it kicks me out of the admin section. When I try to log back in, it fails...perpetually. It locks me out altogether. In-order to fix this I have to update the database records for site_name and home directly, back to the original ip address setting.

    Now I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure something is not right here. So what am I missing/doing wrong?

  2. esmi
    Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
    Posted 10 months ago #

  3. zavoq
    Member
    Posted 10 months ago #

    Esmi,

    Thanks for the link. I don't really know why, but it worked his time.

    Thanks for the help!

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