LyleChamney

To clarify:

– you started wampmanager.exe and the W icon in the system tray goes from red to yellow to green
– once green, you select phpMyAdmin from the popup menu
– and this is when phpMyAdmin does no load?

This is how it should work and if you are doing the same, then there is something off with your WAMP installation that you would be better served by asking on their forum.

That said, also be advised that WAMPServer does not have mod_rewrite enabled in Apache by default, which means that if you want to use permalinks other than the default, you will have to manually enable that in the httpd.conf file yourself.

As CMSHelpLive suggests, you may be better off with XAMPP or my fave, Uniform Server.

Economy Linux Hosting with cPanel

Did you use their ‘one-click install’ and received the email with the login instructions or was this a manual install?

Also, at this point, there should be no need for FTP of any sort 🙂

I’m thinking there must be a DNS/Nameserver issue or something.

Nope. 🙂

According to http://www.whoishostingthis.com/?q=ionanicole.com you are set up on GD and the nameservers listed reflect this.

According to https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/ionanicole.com the domain is fully propagated (as per their tests).

Just to clarify, when you set up your hosting account with GD, you did specify this domain as the primary domain for the account.

You may want to contact GD Support as enough time has passed that it should be available.

On a side note in a similar vein, if it lessens the ‘pain, I am at the moment ‘patiently’ (NOT!) waiting for my nameservers to propagate to a new hosting account for one of my sites 🙂

In addition to what jonradio mentions, unZIP the downloaded ZIP first; the plugin is inside 🙂

Then WP asks for database details – I entered…

Did you enter:

Database Name: whatever YOU named it when you created it using phpMyAdmin (the database tool in WAMP)

User Name: root (this is the default DATABASE user name for WAMP)

Password: <empty> (do not enter ANYTHING here; this is the default DATABASE ‘password’ for WAMP)

Database Host: localhost

Table Prefix: wp_ (leave as-is)

I’m not really sure how you managed to get it the way it is 🙂

Your root domain is still showing the recent posts; this is what is messing things up.

– Pages > Add New > Title: Home > add some content > Publish
– Settings > Reading > Front page displays: Static Page > select Home from the drop-down > Save Changes
– Appearance > Menus > delete the Sample Page menu item > Save Menu
– while you’re at it, Settings > Permalinks > Save Changes

Without digging into it a bit more, first thing that came to mind is that you may have a URL in there that is still pointing to the local (XAMPP) location.

EDIT

Just checked it out on a local install and the code you have shown works.

On the hosted site, is there or have you enabled a caching mechanism (plugin or host provided).