etcbbu

Ok, I am probably just going to BLOW UP the MySQL database in my web-host, BLOW UP these WordPress installation files on our web-space via FTP, create an entirely new sub-directory and not install a new one on

/blog/

anymore, and just start a new MySQL database, but maybe install a Back-up.

Now, we only have 27 “Posts”. And each one of those is just one page or two, and some of them have .JPG or two.

What’s the best way to scoop up all of my settings, 27 Posts (they are basic posts with a JPG or two attached), and everything on how I have my Blog and its Theme and everything now, to Back-up and Restore on a fresh installation that I will do with a different MySQL database and in a new sub-directory from my root directory?

*bump*

Also, can you point to me a place where the Child Theme concept is explained/illustrated/etc.? I have not utilized this idea yet.

I was wondering if that was the case, too.

Anyways, I am ecstatic it’s all up again. I just wish I could find a newer sort of “Version” of a Theme similar to what I have now. I love this Theme, but I installed it in 2011, so it isn’t Mobile-Ready or anything.

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Oddly enough, my blog site is working again. Thank you so much for your assistance in helping me think through this.

God bless.

–etcbbu

@wpgeeks , thank you for your reply. I have questions on each one of your points:

1) Here is what my .htaccess on my root folder of my web-space reads:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ktravisj.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.ktravisj.com [L,R=301] 

before I have made any change. I have not changed anything; that is just, what it is, as of now. I get really nervous when it comes to editing anything in my .htaccess file on my root folder, for fear that I just throw off anything and everything having to do with my domain. But, does it look like, perhaps, I ought to change something in that..?

2) I don’t claim to be an expert on WordPress (clearly anyone could see I’m not the best), but I have set up and administrated several sites over the years, and set them up myself and whatnot. But, whenever someone tells me to edit Plugins, with my blog’s current state where I cannot log in to the dashboard, I do not know how I can edit plugins at all. Is there a way I can do it via FTP? I really didn’t have very many plugins installed on this site; like, maybe AKISMET and one or two other minor ones. How can I deactivate or even delete these? I do not know how to do that right now, whenever I cannot get into my dashboard.

3) Like I’ve shared, I did recently get an SSL Certificate enabled on my ktravisj.com domain, and http/2 protocol enabled. But like I also shared, I tried the “find and replace” tool, last night, and although the process claimed to be a success (I took screenshots of the completed process, after it successfully made all of the changes), alas, my website still will not load in a browser.

If we could, keep in mind that whenever I say

perfectlyincomplete.ktravisj.com

All it is, is a Forward to this more concrete address:

ktravisj.com/blog/perfectlyincomplete

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@magnigeeks , Thank you for your reply. When you say that I should do a find and replace for changing http to https in my Database, are you talking about I need to log into phpmyadmin and do this? Or, do you mean that if I utilize @shamratdewan’s method of simply utilizing FTP to overwrite some new WP file from a new WP installation, that will accomplish everything that you are saying? But, I am trying to understand, if I use this latter method of using FTP to replace files from a fresh WP installation, are y’all saying that I need to ignore the wp-includes directory entirely? Just leave it alone and do not replace anything inside of that directory?

@shamratdewan , Thank you for your reply. Yes, I am familiar with using FTP for file-transfer, I do this all of the time, and pretty much just always do that whenever I install a WP site. But, I typically just use the built-in Windows Explorer FTP client, or “AutoFTP”. But, same process, I just use those two FTP clients. As far as your question, I am not understanding if you are saying that whenever I go to my DB and your question about, “can you go to your site DB what is the URL under wp-options table siteurl?”; does this mean I need to log in to my phpmyadmin in order to answer your question? And as far as your other question about plugins, I cannot get into my dashboard at all, and so I cannot disable/install/or do anything with plugins. I cannot even reach my wp-admin page in order to even log-in to my dashboard; and so I cannot manipulate my plugins at all.

–etcbbu

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• This reply was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by etcbbu.