Brandon Wanamaker
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Error 404-Page not foundCrisso,
Are you wanting to use the category name or the post name in the URL instead of the default post ID?This happened to me and I had to make sure that the host had enabled mod_rewrite and that an .htaccess file was present in the same directory as my WordPress installation. Once I took care of both of those, it worked perfectly.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: need some information about folders found …You’re very welcome, motdaugrnds.
To explain web root: This is the folder where your domain name leads to. So if you type http://youdomain.com/index.html into your web browser, you will be taken to the index.html file in your web root, if the file exists, of course. Based on what you’ve posted above, you’re in the web root when you log into your FTP. This is a good thing. Does that make sense?
FileZilla if just a program to move files from your computer to your server (BlueHost) so yes, FileZilla and WordPress have no compatibility problems. After you download the files from WordPress to your computer, you would then use FileZilla to move them from your computer to your server. Think of FileZilla as a cargo train that can move files back and forth between your computer and your server. It doesn’t do anything more than that.
Since your on BlueHost, take a look at their tutorial for installing WordPress. It looks like they have an installer that will take care of all the hard work for you and you may not even have to use FileZilla!
https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/wordpressForum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Extremely Slow SiteHi zuluboy005,
If you’re on shared hosting, it’s likely due to too many “neighbors” on your system. I saw that you were on JustHost.com hosting, which offers $2.95/month hosting. In order to offer that price, the company will have to put a lot of customers on a server.While it’s inexpensive, it can mean a slow running site. As Evan mentioned, ‘YSlow’ is a great tool and can help figure out if you need to optimize the CSS and JS on the site. You could also use a CDN to help speed things up. I recommend CloudFlare for CDN since it’s free and they are good people. It can also minify your JS and CSS, which will help speed things up a bit. Otherswise, I think the host is just crowding your server and is the biggest detriment to your speed, unfortunately.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Link not working after migrationHi John,
This URL is working for me. I wish I could include a screenshot. Have you tried clearing the cache in your browser?Sometimes the browser will get stuck on the 404 page, so clearing the cache will likely clear this up for you.
Hope this helps!
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Two home pages served at random?This plugin for WordPress may also be helpful:
http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-content-experiments/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Two home pages served at random?Hi Kitka,
Sounds like you want to do a/b or split testing. You can set this up through Google Analytics using their Content Experiments feature. This will allow you to set up 2 different pages to serve up to visitors as the home page and then will measure the results for you. It will take some configuration, but Google does have some good documentation.Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Wishlist/ECommerce PluginFoxyCart is also an option for WordPress, although you’ll need at least some HTML experience. Otherwise, I agree with the other guys: WooCommerce.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: need some information about folders found …Hi motdaugrnds,
Those folders containt the files that WordPress needs to function. For example, the wp-admin contains the files needed for your admin panel to function and wp-content is where your themes and media (like photos) get uploaded to. They do a lot more than that, but you certainly need to leave those on your server for WordPress to function.However, these wp- folders may not be used IF they are not in your web root. I see that you mentioned http and https folders, and those could be your web root, but confirm with your host first before modifying or deleting any files. Deleting those wp- folders in your web root will cause WordPress to stop working.
Hope that helps!
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: MAC installationHi ivnbkn,
When you were setting up MAMP and you MySQL database, you should have created a specific username and password for the database. That is the username and password you will need to use, not the one for you computer.Can you copy and paste the full text page with errors into a code field so that we can take a look?
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: Adding email support to locally hosted wordpress siteHi Jason,
Have tried adding your SMTP server to the PHP configuration file? If you locate the php.ini file, open it in a text editor and modify the SMTP and sendmail_from values. The SMTP value will be your SMTP server. The sendmail_from value would be the email address you are sending from. Also check if they are commented out, because if they are, changing their values will do no good… so be sure to remove the comments! 🙂Windows doesn’t like to send email out of the box, but I’ve used this SMTP configuration in the past and it’s worked.
Let me know how that works for you!
Forum: Localhost Installs
In reply to: Unable to access my local wordpress dashboardWhen you go directly to the /wp-admin and it fails, do you mean it loads a blank page, loads nothing at all or redirects to the homepage? Or something completely different?