Title: Blog Broken Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # Blog Broken * [luckylibra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luckylibra/) * (@luckylibra) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/) * I am sorry to title this so oddly…but I honestly do not know how else to describe it…perhaps utter frustration and anger? * I have somehow managed to change the characterset to UTF-7 instead of 8 and I think this is part of the problem. * I seem to have broken something, as some of the charaters in posts are no longer appearing right…breaks in lines are not appearing right. When I click to edit on posts or comments, there is NOTHING there??? * I’ve tried to switch it back to the recommended 8, but it will not save the change. In fact, it won’t save ANY changes I make…I am SO frustrated!! * My blog is here: [http://www.luckylibra.com/bloggy/](http://www.luckylibra.com/bloggy/) * Although the content of the second entry is not suitable for “everyone” its got the best example of text issues. A few down is a MEME that has lost its format… its all run together. * Anything I click, any changes I try to make, they are not saving. It just bumps me to the “All Options” page, and even if I make the changes there…NADA!! * Help….please… Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 22 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/page/2/?output_format=md) * [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/) * (@cypher) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219013) * Are you by any chance running [phpMyAdmin](http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/) on your website? * If so, great. If not, grab it and you can make the necessary changes to the database directly and fix your issues. * You will need to edit the ‘wp_options’ field and on the second page, you will find an entry aptly named ‘blog_charset’ that needs to be set to “UTF-8”. * Hopefully whatever is ailing your blog will be fixed by this change. * Regards * Thread Starter [luckylibra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luckylibra/) * (@luckylibra) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219020) * *wails* * Not only can I not make any changes, add/activate/deactivate plug-ins… * I cannot seem to get the dumb thing to even LOAD… *points* * It says my config file is wrong??? * Thread Starter [luckylibra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luckylibra/) * (@luckylibra) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219021) * OK, got the config issue fixed. * Got the suggest application uploaded…not sure what to do with it. * *sigh* * And all I wanted to do today was post some pictures of my kid. Grrrr. * [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/) * (@cypher) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219022) * Modify the file ‘config.inc.php’ in your phpMyAdmin directory with the necessary database username/password that you have in your ‘wp-config.php’ file. * Just entering the username and password should be enough. Now when you go to [http://yourdomain.com/phpMyAdmin](http://yourdomain.com/phpMyAdmin) (or wherever you installed it), you will see a nice graphical program. From the drop down menu, choose your WordPress database. You can gather the name from ‘wp-config. php’ again. * Now, click on the ‘wp-options’ link in the left menu. From there, in the right window click on “Browse” to show you all the information stored in the ‘wp-options’ table. You should now to go the second page using the > button and look for ‘ blog_charset’ optionname. Once you find the entry, “Edit” it, make the necessary changes and “Save” at the bottom of the page. * Hope that gets you going. * Regards * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219024) * Just visited, looks fine to me in FF 1.0.4, no sign of what you describe…. * [Love the 2nd post btw – thankfully I’m all done with that! Some things to be said for aging….] * [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/) * (@cypher) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219026) * That’s strange, I see the problem on FF 1.0.4, Konqueror and Opera under Linux. * Regards * [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/) * (@vkaryl) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219028) * Hmm. Yes, that’s odd. The first time I clicked on her link, I got a database error message; just before I posted, I accessed her page for the first time and it’s displaying just fine. * I just went back, and while the “normal” posts are still displaying fine, the meme she mentions is appearing run together now instead of spaced. * Strange…. * Thread Starter [luckylibra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luckylibra/) * (@luckylibra) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219029) * Nutz * #2002 – The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server’s socket is not correctly configured) * Thread Starter [luckylibra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luckylibra/) * (@luckylibra) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219030) * I put in the Database username and password * I’ve got it at: * [http://luckylibra.com/phpMyAdmin-2.6.2-pl1/](http://luckylibra.com/phpMyAdmin-2.6.2-pl1/) * wrong file name? * I suck…I know… * I am sorry to be such a n00b * [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/) * (@cypher) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219031) * You should essentially copy over the Username, Password, Hostname into your ‘ config.inc.php’. The error message seems to indicate you didn’t provide a password for phpMyAdmin to login to the database. * Regards * Thread Starter [luckylibra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luckylibra/) * (@luckylibra) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219033) * Thanks Cypher. * I’ve got the file open in Notepad (didnt know what other program to edit it with). * Its a huge long mess of coding that is greek to me. I am trying to find all of the places to change my password. * I know the database name, username, password and host (same info that is in the WP config file). So I am not sure what the deal is. * [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/) * (@cypher) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219034) * You wanna be editing the following three lines: * On my version of the file (2.6.1-pl3) $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘host’] – Line 69 $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘user’] – Line 84 $cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘password’] – Line 85 * I removed the last entry from my phpMyAdmin configuration and got the same error message as you. So that is most likely the culprit. * You can leave virtually everything else in the file unchanged. * Regards * [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/) * (@cypher) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219036) * Another piece of advice, when you are doing fixing your blog with this software, I would strongly recommend either password protecting the directory or removing your username/password from the config.inc.php file. Otherwise, ANYONE can get into the backend of your blog and do nearly anything they want. * Regards * Thread Starter [luckylibra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luckylibra/) * (@luckylibra) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219042) * I understand…this is all so new to me…I’m on the verge of tears…as silly as that is. * I think Ive fixed the password issue…now I’ve got a NEW error… * The host name is empty! Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/.ballou/luckylibra/luckylibra.com/phpMyAdmin- 2.6.2-pl1/libraries/common.lib.php:1388) in /home/.ballou/luckylibra/luckylibra. com/phpMyAdmin-2.6.2-pl1/libraries/select_theme.lib.php on line 98 * Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/.ballou/luckylibra/luckylibra.com/phpMyAdmin-2.6.2-pl1/libraries/common. lib.php:1388) in /home/.ballou/luckylibra/luckylibra.com/phpMyAdmin-2.6.2-pl1/ index.php on line 55 * Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pma_dbi_get_dblist() in /home/.ballou/ luckylibra/luckylibra.com/phpMyAdmin-2.6.2-pl1/libraries/common.lib.php on line 1458 * Thread Starter [luckylibra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luckylibra/) * (@luckylibra) * [20 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/#post-219043) * I think I am gonna scrap it and do a clean install of this admin thing Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 22 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Blog Broken’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [Coding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/coding/) * [Issues](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/issues/) * [Saving](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/saving/) * [text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/text/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 22 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [ericn1023](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ericn1023/) * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-broken/page/2/#post-219709) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics