What jobs are you getting wp-cron to do, do they need to be re-configured ?
Do a database backup, find where your old ip is being used.
I am not sure wp-cron is responsible. So far, after re-installing mysql the problem is still there, so it is not a database connection problem. Here is an outline of the problem:
1) I try to connect to my wordpress blog http://(new ip)/(blog name)/wordpress
2) White screen, no debug messages with debugging on.
3) I try to login to my wordpress blog http://(new ip)/(blog name)/wordpress/wp-login.php
4) The status of the browser goes from “transferring data from (new ip)…” to “Connecting to (old ip)”! I get to a login screen, but I can’t do anything from there because the links all point to the url that has reverted back to my old ip.
Wp-cron is definitely not the problem. I set ALTERNATE_WP_CRON to true in wp-config.php, and I’m no longer getting this error message, but I’m still left with the same problem.
Now I’m investigating the first error about replacing mysql-connect() with mysqli or PDO. In doing a little research this seems complicated.
This last error message does not really apply to this problem because the only place it is used in wp-db.php is in a condition for “if (DEBUG)”. So this error is only relevant to debugging. Altogether then this problem shows no debugging errors.
Ok, I figured it out. I was backing up my old wordpress mysql table using mysqldump, and wordpress logs your url at the bottom of each post, with the old ip address. When I restored the old table after reinstalling mysql, the old ip was appended to the posts and many other places in the backup file. This was keeping me from reinstalling wordpress.
Is there anyway around having to reinstall wordpress every time my ip changes?
After I move a site I run a tool.
https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/
Put the extracted zip files in a folder called dbsr in your sites main folder.
then go to the following url:
http://www/<yoursite>/dbsr
This will take you the tools page where you can click on dry run to see the results but not change anything.
