I don't think my blog is available to the public

  • wtspragg

    (@wtspragg)


    11 years, 7 months ago

    Hello, Let me start by saying that I am brand new to blogging and whilst a competent computer user I am by no means an IT specialist. I would therefore be grateful if any responses could be sympathetic to that and avoid acronyms and technical terminology.

    I have a website for my small business which I have developed using ‘Sitebuilder’ in ‘Fasthosts’. It has been running ok for 4 years. In the last few days I have added WordPress to my ‘fasthost’ suite so that I can add a blog to my site. I have gone through ‘Fasthosts’ set up instructions and successfully created an account. I have now worked through WordPress’s tutorial and instructions and feel reasonably comfortable with the Dashboard having downloaded a suitable theme, done some customisation and created a post.

    It looks ok in the dashboard. However. when I view the blog from outside (ie as a customer would)at http://www.wtspragg.co.uk/blog/. It is: largely blank, not in the theme I have selected, and any attempt to log in or use it gets a message ‘Blogware has been discontinued’.

    As a novice I cannot tell if this is a genuine message because I have set it up wrong somewhere along the way, or, whether there is a problem in any of the sitebuilder, fasthosts or wordpress software itself.

    Anyone advise?

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    http://www.wtspragg.co.uk/blog/ is not using WordPress.

    Thread Starter wtspragg

    (@wtspragg)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    esmi,
    Thanks very much for looking. Interesting you say that address is not on WordPress. That is the address that was sent me. The email also contained the link to my WordPress Dashboard (the same address with “wp-admin” on the end) , which as I said, seems to work perfectly.
    I have just looked back at that email and found it wasn’t sent by WordPress, as I had assumed, but came from yet another party – SimpleScripts. This adds another layer of complexity as I don’t know who to deal with: WordPress? Fasthosts? SiteBuilder? or now: SimpleScripts (whoever they are).

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    11 years, 7 months ago

    As far as I recall, SimpleScripts is a 1-click installer application for multiple applications – including WordPress. You now need to FTP into your site (or use whatever file management application your host provides) & find out where you installed WordPress to.

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