Title: Problem with local copy
Last modified: January 9, 2020

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# Problem with local copy

 *  [mahmacc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mahmacc/)
 * (@mahmacc)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-local-copy/)
 * I run two WordPress sites. I have recently changed Linux distro to
    Ubuntu. I
   keep copies of both sites on my laptop, for backup and to be able to try things
   out before they go live. The local copy of one of the two sites is up under the
   new OS and working just fine. The other is not, although I used exactly the analogous
   steps in setting it up. As this is a private copy it is not accessible by a public
   URL but I could make screenshots if that would help diagnosis. The public version
   is _[ redundant link removed ]_
 * I can login to the local copy as the administrator, and read pages etc
    in the
   dashboard. I can also look at the pages with the Visual tab of the classic editor
   and it all looks OK. However, I cannot get a sensible View of a page on screen,
   just something that has, for the home page, a single rather neat horizontal bar.
   Any idea as to where the problem lies would be welcome.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fproblem-with-local-copy%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-local-copy/#post-12309393)
 * In the browser console, what errors and warnings do you see?
 * use the [Chrome Developer Tools](https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/)
   or [Firefox Developer Tools](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools).
 *  Thread Starter [mahmacc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mahmacc/)
 * (@mahmacc)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-local-copy/#post-12309750)
 * Assuming you mean the WordPress administrator dashboard, there
    are no errors
   or warnings to be seen.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-local-copy/#post-12310131)
 * Can you give me a screenshot of what you see?
 *  Thread Starter [mahmacc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mahmacc/)
 * (@mahmacc)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-local-copy/#post-12311167)
 * I have uploaded screenshots from my private copy to the public version of the
   website. [Screenshot A](http://www.festivalchorushackney.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ScreenshotA.png)
   shows the (top part of the) dashboard once I have logged in, while
    [Screenshot B](http://www.festivalchorushackney.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/ScreenshotB.png)
   shows what the home page looks like.
 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-local-copy/#post-12312427)
 * Enable [debugging](https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/).
 *  Thread Starter [mahmacc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mahmacc/)
 * (@mahmacc)
 * [6 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-local-copy/#post-12314595)
 * I had run with debugging on before I sent the initial query, and I had deleted
   offending plugins before trying a second time. I have just tried again with debugging
   on and writing to a log. Almost all the messages (8 of 9) in debug.log concern
   deprecated constructor methods. The exception is
 * [11-Jan-2020 08:11:41 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined property: EasyColumns::$use_custom
   in /var/www/html/Choir/wp-content/plugins/easy-columns/easy-columns.php on line
   233
 * Of the deprecated constructor messages, 4 concern wp-includes/functions.php, 
   part of WordPress itself, e.g.
 * [11-Jan-2020 08:11:40 UTC] PHP Notice: The called constructor method for WP_Widget
   in VMenuWidget is **deprecated** since version 4.3.0! Use
 *     ```
       __construct()
       ```
   
 *  instead. in /var/www/html/Choir/wp-includes/functions.php on line 4716
 * The other 4 (one from easy-columns and 3 from our custom theme) say the methods“
   will not be constructors in a future version of PHP”
 * It’s not obvious that any of these is causing the problem. Removing easy-columns
   did not fix the problem.
 *  Thread Starter [mahmacc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mahmacc/)
 * (@mahmacc)
 * [6 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-local-copy/#post-12437079)
 * I am still baffled by this and do not know where to look further. I
    am not aware
   of any difference between the ways the two websites’ local copies have been set
   up, but one works and the other does not.

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