LyleChamney

Success!!! 🙂

Here are the steps:

– created a new, MWP site (delete your current one and start over with a new set up)
– logged into phpMyAdmin using the Settings Page > Database info
– selected ALL the tables in the WP database and ‘dropped’ them
– imported the exported site’s .sql file into this database
– edited the ‘siteurl’ and ‘home’ fields in the wp_options table with the new location (the temp URL provided in the MWP settings) e.g. http://fa359dfr.com or whatever it actually is
– using the SFTP settings from the Settings Page, connected to the server using FileZilla
– navigated to wp-content/plugins folder on the server
– uploaded all the plugin folders from the exported site’s download
– navigated to wp-content/themes folder on the server
– uploaded the exported site’s theme folder
– navigated to wp-content folder on the server
– uploaded the uploads folder from the exported site’s download
– downloaded the wp-config.php file from the server and edited the table prefix as the exported site used the WP default of wp_ … you will have to check your downloaded version from the old host to check what it is and match it up
– delete the one on the server and upload the edited wp-config.php file

That’s it! 🙂

All the images and links were properly adjusted and the site works just fine 🙂

Note that from what I was able to observe, one cannot overwrite existing files or folders on the server; this is why one has to do them individually.

The thing to understand is that a Managed account is a totally different ‘animal’ than the usual shared plans, from GD or anyone else. It took me a while to figure this out too as the other plans are what I am used to.

The MWP is for a new install or migration from an existing, functioning site. It is NOT designed to be manually ‘tinkered’ with as shared hosting account are 🙂 Again, that’s the Managed part … security being one of the most important aspects, hence the permission change restriction.

Standby … I am trying a ‘manual import’ on my MWP account now 🙂

A bit more info will help with the specifics … what platform and local servers are you using? Windows with XAMPP, WAMP, etc. or Mac with MAMP?

The easiest and cleanest ways to uninstall WP is to just delete the wordpress folder (or whatever the folder name is where your WP files are located) and just drop the whole database you created for that install. Then start fresh with a new, empty database and a fresh copy of the WP files and folders (in the extracted wordpress folder) from the WP download, and run the install again.

Additionally, what was happening (or not happening) that you wanted to re-install? Were you getting an error, did’t install correctly? etc.?

Did you actually ‘install’ WP?

You have to:

– create a new, empty database using phpMyAdmin from the WAMP control panel
– within the WAMP www folder should be the extracted wordpress folder with all the files and folders for the WP site
– both Apache and MySQL servers need to be running; the W WAMP icon in the system tray must be ‘green’
– you begin the WP installation process by entering this in your browser:

http://localhost/wordpress

When you get to the database page, you enter this:

— database name: wordpress (or whatever you named it, but it should have no spaces)
— database user: root
— database password: <empty> do not enter ANYTHING in here
— host name: localhost (or 127.0.0.1)
— table prefix: wp_ <leave as-is>

Try that 🙂

Thanks Manuel 🙂

Another item you may want to consider adding is the ability to edit the CSS the plugin provides from within a Settings page or the like.

Reason being is that the current version of the plugin still has this bit of code at the end:

border-bottom: 1px dotted;

What this will do is add a 1px dotted underline under any image that is linked. I responded to a number of posts on the DWB forum for this “issue”.

Cheers!
Lyle

OK but I didn’t add anything to Twenty Thirteen either and it behaves as I think a new user would expect.

That’s because there is really nothing ‘custom’ there other than the header graphic 🙂

I totally agree with you Brad, and that is why there are so many ‘help the WP beginner’ sites and vids out there … it’s a big market! 🙂

That said, IMHO, the fine folk that ‘make’ WP try to make it as ‘universal’ as possible, but as with any technical endeavor, it always makes ‘total sense’ to the person(s) who are in the know and will quite possibly look like ‘gibberish’ to those who are not 🙂

Hi Rob,

Has this just recently started to happen? I take it you have been able to access your admin in the past as you have a very high risk, outdated version of the RevSlider plugin installed:

http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/acupages.ca

I would suggest going into your hosting control panel’s file manager (or FTP) and renaming the plugins folder within wp-content. Doing so will disable all plugins to see if one or more may be causing the issue.

If you are able to log in again, then first, UPDATE the RevSlider plugin 🙂
Then enable the others one by one while logging out and back in to see which one was the culprit.

Cheers!
Lyle