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I’ve now learned that, in a non-flash site, you display the site name with this code:

<?php bloginfo(‘name’)

Name is one of the values in the system variable bloginfo. Is there any way for me to take the value out of that variable, reformat it with the middle letters italicized, and put it back?? Where would I do that? I’ve already tried doing it in the Settings page and it didn’t work.

I can’t find the theme’s header.php file. All that flash code isn’t for the title and menu formatting – I commented it out to see what would go away. It’s for the photo display only. Commenting out the flash had zero effect on the title and menu format.

I found a file which suggests that all those critical files are actually being pulled from the previous support person’s personal server! I’ll try to get the files from her, but I have no idea whether or when she’ll cooperate.

Since this chat, I got a request for a backup of another copy of our site (don’t ask), so I thought I’d try Duplicator. I’ve run into a problem. Duplicator assumes (and doesn’t say this until you get to the scan output) that your site is 150MB or less and your database is 50MB or less; also that you have no files over 5MB in size. We have a big old site with a lot of embedded data and we’re over all those limits (site is >300MB, database is just over 95MB, plus 5 non-backup files which exceed the 5MB limit). When I ran the build I got an error, 500 Internal Server Error (probably a timeout).

Duplicator support tells me I probably can’t use it on a shared or budget hosting site (it’s on GoDaddy). So is there an alternative, free if possible?

I still plan to try Backup Buddy for my major task – its next scheduled backup is tomorrow so I thought I’d wait for it. But I would like a tool for this other site, if possible a free tool. Any suggestions?

A little further research tells me that lifering.org, which I want to clone, already has Backup Buddy installed – I’m one of a team of volunteers who maintains the site, and one of the others put it in. I think they put it in just to do site backups but it says it will move the site – and if I use it, I get paid tech support! Do you have any experience with Backup Buddy?

It’s encouraging to hear that Duplicator is that easy to use. I may try it out on another project I’m working on.

As a career techie and programmer, I never want to do anything by hand if someone has built a good automation for it!

Tim, I appreciate the feedback, and you’re probably right. But – that leaves me, once again, with the choice of either running JetPack or running my purchased theme. If I go back to the Modulus support team and say, by the way, can Modulus run on jQuery 1.8.3, what do you think they’d say? Frankly, right now JetPack is turned off so I can work on configuration.

I solved this one with help from the good folks at StackOverflow.com. The rebuild changed some PHP settings, the one at issue was open_basedir:

open_basedir = "/var/www/vhosts/lifering.org/:/tmp/"

The solution was to create a hard link called mysql (could have been a symlink) in the /tmp directory and then change the MySQL path in WP-DBManager to /tmp/mysql. The error message immediately went away.

Stefan, thanks for the response. At least it isn’t just us. As you say, it all seems to work fine.