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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Another day, another problem … (PHP upgrade breaks WP 3.0.5)There was a minor PHP upgrade that broke PHP scripts (esp those calling MySQL) at my ISP, due to some new hashing being used to encrypt the passwords. I just needed to re-run the set password=password(‘xyz’) command under MySQL in a UNIX shell for it to save it in the new format.
Down 8 days out of the past two weeks because of one or another minor catastrophe. Hookers would not go down so often 🙁
At least the problem is solved.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Reduced menus in WP3.1I just found the problem. Actually, Ipstenu was right, and the plugin seemed to have been inadvertently de-activated along with a host of other plugins. Turning them back on de-activated my whole website. So I downgraded to version 3.0.5 and everything is back to normal.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Reduced menus in WP3.1Also, Ipstenu, if you were talking about the WPStats Dashboard plugin, that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about the vanilla Stats plugin that is supposed to come packaged with WordPress.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Reduced menus in WP3.1I recall, however, that the admin bar could actually be configured prior to 3.0.5. There was a lot of things that I put on there, and the Stats page seemed to be part of the WordPress distribution, and not just a plugin. At any rate, it’s not listed as a plugin on my site. Is this a new thing with 3.6?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Reduced menus in WP3.1Try turning the Admin bar off in your Profile page.
How does this allow me to configure my admin bar?
Paul King
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Reduced menus in WP3.1Yes, if that’s what it is (i think you’re right, but I can’t find it referred to anywhere on my sidebar or anywhere else). Sorry if I sound clueless, it’s just that at one time i knew how to edit and add things to this bar, and now it seems I can`t find where I did these adjustments to add back the functionality it once had. Any ideas?
Thanks
Paul
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Reduced menus in WP3.1I am talking about that menu which extends across the TOP of the display, not the side. For me, it is solid dark gray in color, and has a bare minimum of selections. The font color is also not really readable on it and I would like to change it (I don’t know whose idea it was to put dark purple on dark gray).
The logout menu option is gone too, and I don
t believe theres a plugin for that. The logout button below the dark gray menu is still there, however.Paul King
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: cant get past the login screenDo you remember if you midified wp-config.php? Same thing happened to me, and I had to set things back to the way they were.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: My website has disappearedI found the problem. The index.php file was corrupt, and was over 2 megs in size…
Another 3.0.5 zip file was downloaded and all files updated from that archive.
Paul
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: My website has disappearedThat is to say, I got a blank web page both with and without the plugins, and the problem blew back to a downgrade to 3.0.4, also with and without the plugins.
BTW, is there a programmatic way in PHP to send apache error messages to the browser as a sort of “debug mode” as one would find in Python?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: (newbie) Collation and encoding in MySQLAfter some checking, it appears that the default collation on the mySQL server on my main website is set to latin1_swedish_ci. It probably wasn’t set when mySQL was installed on my host’s server. And the website seemed to run fine with it.
The problem still remains, however, of the error messages, which are pretty much the same, even after finding out how things are set on the host server. See my last post in this topic.
I don’t think you understand. What I mean is that the plugin itself vanished from my web page after four months or so with the 90-day setting. I’m not worried about the number of hits. When I set it to 60 days, it re-appeared back on my web pages. It looks like the plugin crashes if there are more than 10,000 visits within the time period.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Anyone know the database variables containing the hostname?Thanks, esmi, I couldn’t see a mysql command line solution (I don’t think we have PHPmyAdmin on our site), so I edited wp-config.php as suggested on that page. At least now I can log in to wordpress and fix things.
Of course, I backed up the database anyway through command-line mysql as suggested, and backed it up locally.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Moving blog 1 level up causes "Unknown Host" error when logging inEverything is fixed, except that now I can’t log in as administrator. This was likely because the blog settings were inadvertently set to the wrong site name. This looks like I am going to need to change the site name back to what it was through a mySQL shell interface. Luckily, I have web access, but lack the SQL chops to even retrieve the value.
By examining the table x_options, I was able to see that “stridersjournal.net” (the wrong site name) is present in the database, however, I don’t know the SQL variable (or field) name to retrieve it with. Since I didn’t set up any of this except through the scripts, it must be some kind of standardized variable name. Examining the PHP scripts, “siteurl” and “home” are seen as suspects, but none of them worked (with quotes, I got an endless list of the word “siteurl” or “home”; and without quotes I got an error).
Any help on this would be appreciated.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Moving blog 1 level up causes "Unknown Host" error when logging inI partially mitigated the presentability problem by moving the smooth_slider directory to _smooth_slider, thus disabling the plugin. Things look a little better, although there is still the underlying problem with the settings for the hostname.