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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: No My Theme section on dash boardLook for an “Appearance” section in your admin area.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: What does this mean? Will pay for supporteduchalk [at] gmail [dot] com
Also, just so you are aware, there is a wp-pro mailing list where you can contact literally hundreds of WP experts.
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Issue with the text editor while creating a new postTake a look at the following thread…may be something there that will help.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Domain CHangeGlad you got if fixed.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: What does this mean? Will pay for supportA link to your site? A way to contact you?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: 2.8 upgradeDid you disable all your plugins before upgrading? If not, see the following for how to do this via phpMyAdmin.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Domain CHangeIt looks like there is a link in your sql that is trying to create the database and it fails because it’s already created. If you used phpMyAdmin and just exported the tables in the database, then you shouldn’t have that line in the sql to create the db.
It may help if you view one of the videos in the following post and pay attention to the part where I export the db tables, search/replace in the sql file, and then import the tables back into the db.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Moving wordpress blog to another serverSee the following video. If you are not changing the url, then you can skip the db editing part.
Forum: Everything else WordPress
In reply to: Domain CHangeYou can dump the database, do a search/replace on the url, drop the tables and then import the edited sql file.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Static page – IndexSelect a static frontpage by going to Settings/Reading
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: More than 1 blog using WordPress?This may help as well.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: 2.8 is evilYou may try to login on the site that disappeared and try changing themes to see if that helps.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Blog disappearedThe following video may help.
See if the following video helps:
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: 2.8 is evilI agree with much of what you said, but let me make a couple counter-points 🙂
1. WordPress Codex says, “deactivate plugins before upgrading”
That is very true and it should be done. BUT, failure to disable a plugins should not, for example, result in a person’s Joomla site being deleted…their WordPress site being broken, okay, but no reasonable person would expect virtually everything in their public_html directory to be wiped clean due to a wordpress upgrade.
2. WordPress tells everyone to take backups before upgrading.
That is true, but this advice doesn’t assume you need to backup your entire webhosting account before upgrading WordPress. How many people here really backup their entire hosting account (other than their normal backups) before upgrading WordPress? I don’t. When I upgrade a WP install (for myself or a client) I backup the WP source code and the WP database…it never occurred to me that during a WP upgrade, I could completely wipe out my (or a clients) entire public_html directory content. That’s the disturbing part here…not that the upgrade could destroy WP (your backup should allow you to recover from that), but that a WP upgrade (if what is being reported is fact) could wipe out all content in your public_html directory.
Again, I think this reported problem deserves some sort of “official” comment.
PS…Either way I (still) love WordPress and think it’s by the far best blogging software (free or commercial) our there 🙂