LyleChamney

Further to the above:

Once you start the install, please use the Create a Configuration File button on the screen where it is presented 🙂

Then at the screen where it asks for the database connection info, this is what you will enter:

Database Name: creekside
User Name: root <the default MAMP database user>
Password: root <the default MAMP database password>
Database Host: localhost
Table Prefix: wp_ <leave as-is>

I need to build several completely separate sites

Then that is what you need to create in MAMP. Multisite is not for this sort of scenario.

Basically duplicate what you did for the first site for each additional site required (given that you installed the first one into a folder within Applications/MAMP/htdocs)

For each required local site:

– create a new folder within Applications/MAMP/htdocs
– copy the extracted WP files and folders into that folder
– create a new, empty database using phpMyAdmin
– keep things simple: use the default MAMP database user and password: root and root
– keep things simple: use the default MAMP settings for document root and server ports
– run the install for each using http://localhost:8888/folder_name

Further to what abletec says:

Your site is just fine … no worries 🙂

What you did in Settings > General when you changed the URL is just that … you changed it and when you clicked “Save changes”, it got stored in the database.

What abletec is saying is what you need to do to get it back the way it was. To clarify what you would need to change in the database, it is these two fields in the wp_options table:

siteurl and home

The exact values (important!) that you need to enter for both are:

http://medistori.com/medistori

Doing this will restore the site to the way it was with the “extra” medistori.

To remove that extra, you will need to do it one of two ways, which are described here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Changing_Your_Domain_Name_and_URLs

Keep in mind that in order to do any of this, you will need to be able to log into your website hosting control panel. Hopefully your dev will have provided you with the URL and log in credentials.

It seems that my database has been deleted from phpmyAdmin.

All of my CSS is present on my site, though my media, widgets, and other WordPress elements are not present.

If you can see your site, your database is there and connected.

I am unable to login with the username and password I have been using – could this be because a new username was created?

I take it you mean to log into the site and not the database. If so, see this for how to reset your login using phpMyAdmin:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password#Through_phpMyAdmin

I heard that there is a way now with 4.0 to create a form without installing any special plugin.

I haven’t heard of that one.

Looks correct 🙂

Don’t forget to MOVE all the existing content from the root to a new folder off the root for safe keeping.

@dixiedays –

While your issue may be similar, it is not the same, unless you are on the same hosting account running the same version of WP and all other items.

As per forum rules, please start your own topic for your issue, including as much info as possible, the URL as well, if able 🙂