Glitchy development site

  • WhipCalArch

    (@whipcalarch)


    12 years, 8 months ago

    I recently downloaded wordpress and created a website in development on ServerPress. After some initial issues, I eventually started to know my way around all three ServerPress, WordPress and the theme I downloaded from ThemeTrust. Then I could not get the site off my computer as developed (the database was missing from the folder that supposedly had everything. So instead of having to pay $100 for ServerPress Pro I opted to let my web host set up a dev site for me and to rebuild it as it is on my computer, this way I can share it with others and in forums for better trouble shooting etc….

    So I started yesterday, I kept running into glitchy periods where images I had uploaded would just black out, my slideshow on the home page disappears or is blacked out, I get cubic pixelation happening… I thought it was my computer (a mac) so I restarted, restarted resetting the P RAM, made updates, ran disk utility and still it is glitchy. My host said it is not on their end. Could this be because I have ServerPress and WordPRess still on my local disk and it is confused which data and links it is using??

    Thoughts?

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  • vtxyzzy

    (@vtxyzzy)

    12 years, 8 months ago

    Your hosting service probably did not transfer the site properly, they probably just copied the database without replacing the URLs and paths that point to the the original site.

    WP and some plugins often store URLs and paths in ‘serialized’ format, where the length of the string is stored with the string. If you replace a serialized URL with one of a different length, you will break the serialization, causing all sorts of problems.

    Here is an article with the steps I use to copy a site: http://wordpress.mcdspot.com/2012/08/22/migrating-a-wordpress-site-step-by-step/

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