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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: install and deleteYou are probably better off installing and learning how to use an FTP client. Some info on that here:
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: All my websites hacked ‘silence is golden’?You definitely should change your web hosting account passwords. And this won’t help you now, but for future, you should install several plugins such as vLogger and WP Exploit Scanner:
http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2008/04/16/postlogger-for-wordpress/
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: New Server-ImagesDid you make sure you edited the paths to reflect the new server path? (or URL if that is the case)?
Here is some info on changing servers that might help:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_ServerForum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Upgrading from 2.6.2′ to 2.8.4 – quick questionSee? That wasn’t so bad! Glad it worked out for you. And now that you are using 2.8.4, I believe you can upgrade WP automatically from the dashboard now. 🙂
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: Where can I find free cool real estate themes?Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: WordPress in generalI would be willing to bet that First Steps was written before the big change in the dashboard layout. The new layout is very intuitive so just be brave and poke around. Posts are up top on the left hand side, along with the other main panels (Pages, Appearance, Plugins, Tools, etc.). The panels should be along the left side of your browser’s viewport. The expanded area (for writing posts and pages and working with plugins occupies the larger right side of the screen.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: New to WordPressTry using BBPress, it’s what’s driving this support forum! There are also some (or at least one) plugin that actually bridges your WordPress blog/site and your BBPress forum. Not hard at all.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Getting error saying that it cannot be found on this serverWhen you purchased your domain name, did you change its DNS settings (your web host should have given you that information)?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Importing my old databaseHave you tried going in via PHPMyAdmin and just doing an SQL dump of the post and comment tables? That contains the site’s posts and pages, and comments, respectively. Worth a shot since it looks like, at this point, you have nothing to lose (except the rest of your sanity!). 😉
Why don’t you contact me off forum (check my profile for email addy), and I can try to help you when I get home from my second job at 11PM? I hate to see all your work scrapped. And I have had years to practice wrestling with WP databases (since Sept. 2004).
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Importing my old databaseHave you tried using a different browser? Which browser are you using when you try to do this export? I find that sometimes Firefox will choke, and Opera will get it right. No idea why.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Where did my WordPress install GO!?Depends on how many databases your hosting plan allows. Sounds like you may be limited to just one. That information_schema database is the database that stores info about all the other databases, so don’t delete that!
You want to EXPORT to a *.sql file. So if you are in PHPMyAdmin and can see the two databases, click on the benmeyer database. You should be able to then click on Export Tab on the right side of the screen. Then make sure all the tables are selected (Select All); make sure that the radio button says SQL. On the right column, check Drop Tables. Then scroll down and check Save as File. You don’t have to populate it with anything, PHPMyAdmin will do this for you. Then you should be able to save the *.sql file (which is just a text file) to your hard drive.
Congratulations, you’ve just backed up your database. With that out of the way, you should be able to do a reinstall. If something goes wrong, you have your backup copy there. Good luck!
Oh, if you just want to backup your posts and pages, what you can do instead is export a table from the database, not the whole database. In that case, you’d click on the table “posts” and do the same thing as I’ve outlined above, except that instead of exporting (backing up) the entire database, you’ve just exported the table that contains your WordPress pages and posts. Bear in mind that if you decide to take this “scorched earth” route and do a clean install of WP and then import that table into the freshly created database, you’ll have to reconfigure everything else. This will just preserve your posts and pages.
Forum: Themes and Templates
In reply to: I want to remove the themeYou will need to fit your existing styles to WordPress. By virtue of the fact that you were previously using Bravenet, I assume you aren’t too familiar with CSS. For now, if you want to get your site up and running, I’d look for a simple theme with the layout and color palette of your existing site. I peeked at the source code and there is some amount of tag soup there. However, if you want to learn, there are some great tutorials on how to theme for WordPress. And that would teach you how to take an existing design, such as the one you have, and convert it to WordPress.
Most of the pages on your existing site (e.g., Services, Portfolio, References, etc.) can become static WordPress pages so that should keep things simple.
Here are some links to designing/theming for WordPress:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Development
http://www.wpdesigner.com/2007/02/19/so-you-want-to-create-wordpress-themes-huh/
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: user accounts?I’ve never had a need to construct a WordPress site that way (or any other site for that matter). But I Googled and found one constant throughout, which was Viper’s plugin, registered users only. (He’s a very knowledgeable and reputable WP plugin dev, so you should be fine with any plugins he offers.)
I’m not sure what kind of spam protection you are after with your statement
protection from outside spammers stealing accounts or email addresses
I highly recommend that you deploy some security plugins such as Obfuscate email (which munges any address so that it’s just character entities when you view the source, yet the email address behaves just like a mailto link for human visitors), vLogger by Cherie Hayes, and WP-Exploit Scanner.
And I’m no programmer either, just a web designer; but just for future reference, it’s PERL. 🙂
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: installing wordpressYou may have to actually CHECK a setting that says keep file/folder structure intact.
Are you using an FTP client to upload the files to your server or are you trying to do this via your cPanel/webhosting admin panel?
You should save the *.zip file to your hard drive somewhere where you can find it easily. Use Winzip to unpack the files, preservering their folder structure.
The “root” folder will be /wordpress. This does NOT go in a /wordpress folder on your web site (UNLESS you are installing WordPress in a subfolder). Normally, if you want WordPress at http://www.yourcooldomain.com, then the files that live in the /wordpress folder go directly to the site root. (Usually public_html when you view files via FTP.)
Everything else should be in folders:
/wp-admin
/wp-includes
/wp-contentAnd there should be a slew of *.php files and some text files (license, readme) in the /wordpress folder as well as those *.php files.
HTH.
Here’s another cool way to do that same thing:
http://www.ivovic.net/2008/05/20/turn-a-wordpress-page-into-a-link