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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Woo Commerce Payment IssuesI recommend closing this post as resolved and starting a new thread in the WooCommerce Support forum:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/woocommerceI’m not sure that a WooCommerce expert would see your question here. You may also want to review the posts at the link above and see if your question was already answered.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Database Update and Now my Blog is Gone??Since you have already been in touch with your host’s support folks, you are mostly likely to get this working by asking them to restore your WordPress to the way it was before all this started happening. Your installation of WordPress replaced the previous database, essentially starting you again from scratch, just like a new fresh WordPress install would be.
Overall, your host is best equipped to help you at this point.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Back end of site not workingThis is the White Screen of Death (WSOD), which is described here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_ErrorsFirst thing I try is to set WP_DEBUG to TRUE in wp-config.php
The link above has a link for more info on doing that.Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Different Website Viewing experience for Computer and Mobile DeviceThough there are other ways to do it, the most common “cause” of differences in appearance between Mobile and Desktop views is the Theme. In your case, it appears that you have a custom Theme for your site, as the theme folder is the initials of your company.
This difference is views is called “Responsive”, and is generally considered a good thing, not a bad thing.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: "siteurl" and "home" Automatically ChangingCheck this out:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URLIt explains all the ways that Site and Home can be overridden from the values found in the database.
Forum: Hacks
In reply to: Messages go directly in junk folder. Caused by return-path?Sorry for the delay. My father-in-law ended up in the hospital, but is home now and seemingly doing better.
Radio museums are few and far between, at least decent ones in my part of the world. Glad that you had a chance to enjoy it. I’m currently working on a WordPress-based site, still under wraps, to finally get some historically accurate broadcast history for Western Canada. Really time-consuming to do, but I’m using contemporary newspaper accounts, rather than broadcast directories, and getting some pretty amazing results: finding mistakes in 75% of the current accounts of broadcast events!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Moving WordPress site from one domain to anotherNo, but you will need to do some things as WordPress does “know” your domain name. I would suggest reviewing this documentation, and possibly the Moving WordPress doc. that is mentioned there.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URLForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Helsinki theme, cropping header image results in broken linkThe support forum for the Helsinki theme in the WordPress Theme Directory is at:
https://wordpress.org/support/theme/helsinkiBest to re-post there so someone who knows that theme might see your post.
Forum: Hacks
In reply to: Messages go directly in junk folder. Caused by return-path?There are so many different pieces of software that are in use today to “tag” e-mail as Spam, that you will never find a solution that guarantees that a given piece of e-mail won’t end up in a Junk Folder or otherwise get labelled as Spam. The best that you can do is try and reduce the chances.
Yes, I can see it being worth your while to make the return-path and sender match, as that is a common spammer’s trick: use one of the addresses on the e-mail list as the sender’s e-mail for the spam.
Plus, the normal advice: exactly one address in the To: field and none in the BCC: or CC: fields.
Here in Canada, with last year’s anti-spam law coming into effect, some spam filters have begun to look for Unsubscribe links in the message body that meet the law’s requirement.
Finally, there is the mail server itself. Some web hosts are not very careful and end up with a “bad reputation” in the spam databases used by ISPs. Messages you send in that situation often get bounced by the ISP without the end customer even being aware of the fact.
Bottom line advice: do what you can, realizing that nothing is guaranteed to work (what works today may not work tomorrow), and monitor your mail logs for any evidence of non-delivery (remembering that some ISP mail servers do not bounceback, but just fail silently).
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Very slow when accessing my blogOnly way to know for sure is to try a monitoring service. Like Pingdom, which is what I use.
That will tell you whether it is “your end”. If Pingdom reports poor response time, then talk to Bluehost support and let them figure it out.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Backup and Restore messNo, what exists in the database is “unique data” that does not exist elsewhere.
You could approach your old hosting site to see if they still have a backup of your database.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Deleting Home buttonI’m afraid that you have come to the wrong place. We don’t support wordpress.com sites here. That is done over here:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/This is the place where brave souls come who have installed WordPress on web hosting they have bought or otherwise acquired.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Backup and Restore messIf you lost the database, you’ve lost your WordPress web site. There just is no other way to say it.
Sorry!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: No ResponsePlease check back at your original post. There was a reply there 23 hours ago.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-for-a-blog?replies=2
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: User died, and family want to delete profile/blogYou did not say, so I have to ask: are you referring to a wordpress.com account? If so, you have come to the wrong place for help. https://en.support.wordpress.com/ is where you need to look.
This site is only for those who have chosen to install WordPress themselves on web hosting, which is generally paid for. Since I don’t think the family has been paying for web hosting for the last four years, I made the educated guess that this must be a wordpress.com free account.
If I’m wrong, I apologize, and suggest that you respond here, with any info you may have about the web hosting company.