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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to restore broken database – site downYeah, this confusion with doing it locally vs doing it directly on your host is a little odd. Your emergecy isn’t local, surely…
I have to admit I’m a little confused by what you’re actually doing here.
What’s all this with themes and plugins? that seems completely unrelated to a database restoration. Part of the reason you get into so much trouble here is that you confuse the issue by doing 20 things at once.
Scientific method says change ONE thing, then observe the results.
If your host’s PHP upload settings are sufficient (and they are), then restoring the database should be *very* easy… if you wanted to test this process locally, and your php settings are not allowing you to do that, then all I can say is change them.
When a database breaks it doesn’t take the wordpress files and plugins with it… I wish I could understand why you’re tooling around with those when you should be restoring your DB to your live host.
If you have a backup of your DB that you’re confident in.. drop all the tables in your existing DB using phpMyAdmin, then import your backup. All of it, not just one or two tables.
“- confused by databases”
I’m confused by the approach you’re taking, because I don’t understand WHY you are tooling around with wordpress files / plugin files / theme files.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to restore broken database – site downI wouldn’t worry about creating a second DB then switching them around… simply rename the index.php in the root of your wordpress installation to index.NOTNOW 😉
optionally put up an index.html page that says “be right back…”
then do the database restoration which should only take a few minutes… then put the files back the way they were.
if you’re your own host, then I seriously suggest you increase your php upload limit instead of screwing around.
change the values of post_max_size and upload_max_filesize in your php.ini… if your server is configured to use suexec (most cpanel installations are, for example) then put this in your htaccess file:
php_value post_max_size 10M php_value upload_max_filesize 10M php_value max_execution_time 3600the values are just a guide.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Pagination for ‘Pages’ not ‘Posts’you can do almost anything with posts. consider pages as a way to extend what you already have with posts, instead of being the only type of content you use.
good luck.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Login Problemsoh man… I remember when hostway took over my host du jour back in the late 90s I think… they were much (much) more expensive and implemented serious overselling strategies.
I left.
They’re still a ‘premium’ priced host I see… which is not a problem in itself, but you should be getting more than 8mb of memory for your PHP.
Good luck with getting it fixed quickly, and don’t worry about being new, just forgive some of us (myself included) for being grumpy all the time 😉
For the most part, help is available here, even if it’s impatient and expects you to read the available documentation 😉
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: My review of $25 logo from gotlogos.comI may have a big mouth, but my foot isn’t in it.
“the point was that a professional designer could have made a logo that would have been significantly better for $25.”
A professional designer in Kenya, perhaps, where $25 means something.
Certainly a designer can work for a month for free if they want to, but it’s unreasonable to ask for that, don’t you think? $25 is not enough money for a professional designer to do more than spit on a page.
Just having one *think* about your company logo should cost you more than that.
My offer is still open if anyone still wants a shot at it… its the only way the OP is going to end up with a better logo. All this critical discussion certainly isn’t making it happen.
Please be reasonable. I’m not really here to argue, except that so many others seem to be jumping down this guy’s throat about his horrible logo design, when it barely costs anything (and wasn’t that bad, really, given the limitations imposed by the OP).
I won’t argue anymore though… you can kick his corpse all you like 🙂
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Login Problemsyour whopping 8 megabytes is exhausted? what a surprise.
talk to your host about increasing your php memory limit.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Pagination for ‘Pages’ not ‘Posts’greenshady said it all already.
the problem is that there’s no such thing as a ‘next page’ since wordpress doesn’t consider them chronological in nature.
what you want can and *should* be done with posts.
for the record, this is the plugin mentioned earlier: http://www.mis-algoritmos.com/2007/09/09/wp-digg-style-pagination-plugin-v-10/
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: how to link to…?ok, looks like you’ve done the hard part already, but somehow missed the easy part.
check this out: http://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to restore broken database – site downalso, remember once your backup is restored you’ll have to do the search/replace thing again… due to moving your blog.
…. unless you took a backup of your DB *after* you did that already.
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also, you asked about the correct procedure, something about plugins and so on… you really shouldn’t need to do anything with plugins unless you screwed up the physical files as well.
just restore the DB.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: How to restore broken database – site down3.4 meg isn’t huge… is there any chance of contacting your host and asking for them to increase the php upload size limitation from 2mb (default) to 5mb or more? this setting is in php.ini.
Depending on your hosting situation you may be able to do this yourself, if you have access to your own php.ini.
phpMyAdmin will suffer the same issue.
I don’t suppose you have SSH access to your hosting account do you? you can import via the command line if you can FTP up your backup.
If your host doesn’t want to increase the max upload size, you may want to ask them if they wouldn’t mind restoring your backup via the command line for you…
Your other choices are somewhat limited.
PS: you should be on vacation not screwing up your database 😛
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Trying to widen a themethat gradient thing is a repeating image… it’s basically not wide enough to go all the way over.
look at any images that are part of your theme.
Since that image is the background you can see, you can elect to either change it out, or recolour it when you resize it.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Excel charts and graphicsnot really.
when you save as jpg though, you need to ensure that you’re saving with sufficient size so as to retain resolution. Also, that the size you save at isn’t too large to fit at 1:1 zoom factor on your blog.
Using a picture editing program after you’ve exported from excel is the ideal way to go. No, not MS Paint 🙂
I don’t want to tell you that using vector image formats is impossible, but will tell you that you won’t find it a worthwhile investment of your time.
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Notification of postsI’m not particularly fond of the “code is poetry” line, since that implies that there’s a ‘best’ or ‘most efficient’ way to write a poem, which is a complete sack of crap.
The alternative implication is that wordpress isn’t written in a particularly methodical or efficient manner, but is instead an expression of the programmer’s creativity and emotional state of mind.
Hardly a ringing endorsement, but it would explain why wordpress makes so many people cry.
Moving on…
there’s a link to your profile in the top right corner… that’s where your threads live. Frankly I can’t imagine how you found the “code is poetry” thing and missed that right after you login.
http://wordpress.org/support/profile/
as for the subscribers thing, I agree… the core offering should include the ability to notify ‘subscribers’ of comments or new posts, or whatever.
My agreement with that doesn’t change the core code, unfortunately.
There are countless plugins which can do this for you if you’re really that upset about it 🙂
Forum: Requests and Feedback
In reply to: Photo Post by Emailthere’s a term for what you want… its called a “moblog” or “moblogging” as in mobile-phone blogging.
if you google around for moblog plugins for wordpress you might find something appropriate to your needs.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Have an Issue herelol… don’t worry nobody ever reads these threads
*heads over to digg*