Title: Publishing Site
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Publishing Site

 *  [raydevlin711](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raydevlin711/)
 * (@raydevlin711)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publishing-site-1/)
 * Hi –
 * I am new to wordpress and i am having trouble publishing any changes on the dashboard.
   When i look at the public version of my website, it displays only basic starting
   theme wordpress offers.
 * Some advice would be welcomed.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publishing-site-1/#post-2910747)
 * -WordPress Codex: [http://codex.wordpress.org](http://codex.wordpress.org)
 *  Thread Starter [raydevlin711](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raydevlin711/)
 * (@raydevlin711)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publishing-site-1/#post-2910755)
 * Thanks, but here’s nothing in that link that helps me
 *  [hamishmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hamishmac/)
 * (@hamishmac)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publishing-site-1/#post-2910873)
 * I spent an entire day playing with wordpress (back and front end ) everything
   was OK, it worked perfectly. Next day it worked fine then after I installed a
   series of plugins ( from within wordpress) I can’t access the front end. Thought
   things were going too well ! Any ideas please ?
 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publishing-site-1/#post-2910874)
 * [@hamishmac](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hamishmac/),
    -try deactivating**
   ALL plugins **(yes, all) temporarily to narrow down the problem. If the problem
   goes away, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic
   plugin(s). If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try [resetting the plugins](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still
   cause problems (because the hooks remain unless plugins completely removed or
   some plugins stick around in cached files. So by renaming the folder, you break
   them and force them inactive).
 *  Thread Starter [raydevlin711](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raydevlin711/)
 * (@raydevlin711)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publishing-site-1/#post-2910875)
 * Not sure i am the best person to help. I am something of a novice, although i
   thought i was savvy enough to find my way about a tool such as wordpress. I managed
   to solve my problems, but i feel it was more by accident than through any solid
   direction from the troubleshooting pages.
 * For the record, what i did was remove “wordpress” from my URLs and add ‘www’ 
   to my page URL – this both allowed me to publish updates and log in to my site(
   without having to continually reset the password), respectively – something which
   i expected would have been set by default, – but as i say, i am a relative novice,
   and perhaps i don’t understand the nuanced way a piece of software like this 
   goes about its business.
 * I do notice from the forums that plug ins and themes seem to be the chief cause
   of problems – suggesting to me that many of them are not entirely compatible 
   with wordpress. This would be my only real suggestion- start selectively undoing
   your tinkering to see which action has caused the issue.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publishing-site-1/#post-2910883)
 * Duplicate: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/publishing-sites?replies=5](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/publishing-sites?replies=5)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publishing-site-1/#post-2910883)
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