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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples hereHey guys
All along it was my browser that was on the blink! That’s why I wasn’t getting the messages I was looking for!
And once my hubby has sorted that out for me (hopefully) I will be able to go in and ‘activate’ my theme and everything will be OK.
Thanks for everything you’ve done, and I hope we have no bad feelings!?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples hereyou need to be going here
http://www.designyourmarketing.co.uk/wp-admin/install.phpWhen I do I get this message:
WordPress
Already Installed
You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.Is that OK? What’s next for changing it into the theme?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples hereI got rid of the /blog all by myself! (That’s what I’ve been battling with for the past 25 minutes.)
I put the blog file in because I was told to – not realising it would do that. This is because I’m not one of your 70-year olds!
http://www.designyourmarketing.co.uk now works, but I now want to make it look like the theme carrington-blog I have chosen. I’ve put it under /httpdocs/wp-content/themes/carrington-blog – because that is what I understood from the wordpress instructions – where have I gone wrong?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples hereaww come on. your attempting to install wordpress here:
http://www.designyourmarketing.co.uk/blog/
you JUST uploaded a directory named wp-admin, with a file inside it named install.php
Lets see…..how about going to http://www.designyourmarketing.co.uk/blog/wp-admin/install.php with your browser?
Thanks Whooami, but I don’t want the root /blog after my URL. How do I remove it? And then how do I get it to look like the theme I’ve chosen?
That’s where I’ve probably been going wrong.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples hereDear Gangleri and Whoami
I’m sorry I’ve wasted your time, but I still don’t understand.
Success in marketing is obtained through talking in non-jargon. This is extremely difficult to do if you are living and breathing your job. But if you can communicate successfully to Joe Public you’re more likely to make your sale.
I have no link to give you to explain it as there is nothing to see, and as I can’t include files with this post as I can’t give you a screen shot of what I have done so far.
If I downloaded screenshots to my existing website, would that be way to see them?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples hereWhooami
This is what your recommended docs say:
Installation: Famous 5-minute install
1. Unzip the package in an empty directory. [done that]
2. Open up wp-config-sample.php with a text editor like WordPad or similar and fill in your database connection details. [done that]
3. Save the file as wp-config.php [done that]
4. Upload everything. [This instruction is far too vague. How do you upload everything? I need more basic guidance.]
5. Open /wp-admin/install.php in your browser. This should setup the tables needed for your blog. If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again. If it fails again, please go to the support forums with as much data as you can gather. [Again, how do you do that? Until I have got the first lot, I cannot continue.]
6. Note the password given to you.
7. The install script should then send you to the login page. Sign in with the username admin and the password generated during the installation. You can then click on ‘Profile’ to change the password.Could you get your 70-year old non-techies to join this forum so they can explain things nicely to me.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples here“If you want to integrate WordPress into the root of your domain (e.g. http://example.com/), move or upload all contents of the unzipped WordPress directory (but excluding the directory itself) into the root directory of your web server.”
Have I just done this in httpdocs?
I don’t understand “Run the WordPress installation script by accessing wp-admin/install.php in your favorite web browser.
* If you installed WordPress in the root directory, you should visit: http://example.com/wp-admin/install.php”
Could you explain? This link doesn’t go anywhere.Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples hereHi Gangleri
I’ve downloaded all the remaining WS files into the blog directory, thanks. Hope that’s all OK now.
I have changed the wp-config-sample.php file in TextEdit and renamed it. I’m assuming the MySQL name should be ‘ted.34sp.com’. I haven’t done anything to the database charsets and collate types.
Changing the authentication unique keys: the examples look like gobbledegook, do I have to use them? Could I use my own phrases in ordinary text? Will they allow spaces?
Once I’ve changed the wp-config.php file in the local site do I have to reupload it into the remote site? Do I just drag it in?
Next post about placing wordpress files into web server:
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples hereI’m trying to create http://www.designyourmarketing.co.uk into a blogsite. This has nothing to do with alice-designs.co.uk as I already have a free wordpress blog for that: http://alicedesigns.wordpress.com
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples hereOK, techies have no trouble understanding instructions written for techies. This may seem basic stuff to you, but not to me, and advice rather than a ticking off would be more helpful.
Where do I find the readme and codex pages on uploading themes? If you’re refering to the WordPress instructions these are not helpful as they miss out huge chunks in their explanations.
Where do I transfer the theme to?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples hereOK, I’ve created a directory called blog inside httpdocs and uploaded
wp-admin
wp-content
wp-includes
into it. What happens next?I’ve also put my ‘theme’ carrington-blog into anon_ftp – is that the right location?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples hereI see:
..
anon_ftp
bin
cgi-bin
conf
error_…
etc
httpdocs
httpsdocs
lib
libexec
pd
private
statisti…
subdo…
tmp
usr
var
web_u…And some go further:
anon_ftp goes to carrington-blog and incoming
Carrington-blog is the theme I’ve tried to upload.
Does this mean anything to you?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: What I see in FileZilla doesn’t relate to your examples hereI’m afraid you’re dealing with a complete dumbo here. What do you mean by logging into your ftp? All I know is FileZilla and its two columns, the local site on the left and the remote site on the right.
Do I have to log into ftp through WordPress, my webhost, somewhere on my mac – where would I locate it?