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@digico Paris ?????

Make a new user in database and wp-config.php file as admin.

The only user that is in the wp-config.php file is the mySQL database user that WP uses to access the database. It has nothing to do with any WP ADMIN user.

Please don’t make statements unless you know they are factual or you could end up causing problems for a user.

@micco1 – If you have the authority, you can use phpMyAdmin to look at the wp-user table in the database and see what email address is associated with your user. While it is also possible to change your password using phpMydmin, if you don’t know how to do it, I’d suggest just finding the email address and go look for the mail in that account.

If you don’t have the authority, then find the person who has it and have them help you out.

@nootkan – There is no need to contact an individual off the forum for help, it can all be done here. Members are not allowed to solicit work for hire.

As for your problem –
(1) you should never rename or attempt to delete the ‘uncatogorized’ category. Each post is attached to a category and the default category is ‘uncategorized’. It is quite possible that your theme only displays the posts from the ‘uncatogrized’ category on your blog page.

(2) if you followed the suggestions in the Forum Welcome message, you would have provided the URL to your site and the name of the theme you are using. Knowing the theme would help determining any issue. Please provide these in a response

(3) you should be very careful changing things in the database and NEVER do that without first having made a backup of the database (you DO know how to backup and restore your database…right???)

(4) you should create a play site – a copy of your live site where you can test things like upgrades, new plugins, etc before doing it to your live site. You could make it a subdomain, so if your main site was my domain.com, the palest could be myplaysite.mydomain.com. When you create it, point it to a different folder and make sure it’s not in the existing wp’s root folder.

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@digico Paris – please be careful with your statements i.e.

– One table can contain one full wp site (so not the issue)

A wordpress site contains at minimum 11 TABLES. Normally one there is one DATABASE for each wordpress site

– 3 instances of same post is really bad

If you look in the WP database at the wp-post table, you can find many occurances with the same post ID. THEY ARE REVISIONS. This is perfectly normal and is how you can revert to a previously edited version of your post.

– i think maybe try to rename category with a slug wordpress understand better aka “events-and-category” and reassign posts to this new category (php nor myslq and so wordpress don’t like names with empty spaces like “events and..”.

Having a category name with a space in it is perfectly fine! And you can not create a slug with a space in it. WordPress will change the space to a dash (-) to create the slug. If you try to put a space in the slug, WP will change it to a dash.

It has to do with the Theme’s CSS. You should probably post this on the themes support page https://wordpress.org/support/theme/the-newswire

That should work fine.

It would be helpful if you would post the url pointing to your example where it is not working. Then someone could look and see what is happening.

The database upgrade is part of th eWordPress upgrade. It happens because one or more of the tables in the daabase have changed and the database needs to be altered to reflect the change.

Remember to do a daabase backup before doing a WP upgrade.

p.s. the upgrade of the database should have no effect on your internet speed since it is work going on on the server and not data being transfered back and forth.

backend = dashboard
Front end = what visitors see

Glad to help, please mark this as resolved so other moderators don’t need to look at it.