tferral

I just installed the Massage Clean theme and I’m seeing dates like this:
March 18, 2019March 21, 2019

That first date is the date the post was published and the second date is when it was last updated.

Are you seeing the same thing – two dates run together?

Here’s what the source shows for the time fields:

<time class="entry-date published" datetime="2019-03-18T01:24:05-05:00">March 18, 2019</time><time class="updated" datetime="2019-03-21T23:53:55-05:00">March 21, 2019</time>

Note the class names, the first is entry-date published’. The second is just “updated”.

On my system, the dates are date published and date updated.

Pull up one of your pages. Highlight just one of the date lines. Right click on the highlighted text and select View Source.

Copy what you see and paste it into a reply. Let me see what is there.

First – that link your provided is to the localhost on your computer. No one can open your site when you have it installed locally on your computer.

What changes have you made lately, before the date display problem.

I need a lot more information before I can even begin to help your.

• WP release number
• Theme name
• what changes have been made before the problem began
• everything you can tell me about the site

Tip – when writing a message, press Enter twice, not just once, to insert blank lines between thoughts or paragraphs. White space (blank lines and spaces) make things much easier to read. Some forums will submit the message when you press Enter but not the forums here on WP.
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I’m adding this after I submitted the reply –

You said you created a .htaccess in the root. You will probably have to delete it before attempting the steps I give you, below. But, instead of deleting it, rename it to something like old.htaccess.
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I as able to use Google Translate to look at the page where you go the instructions.

Which method did you try to “move” WP to the root” – that page give you two ways?

Transfer (without moving) WordPress from a sub-folder to the main folder

or

Move WordPress from a subfolder to the root folder (physically)

I’m guessing you used the first method because of your description of what you did.

Unfortunately, without experience with FTP and MYAdmin, the steps they give you are fraught with danger. If you don’t understand each step, you can find yourself in trouble, as you are right now.

They tell you how to do the steps but they don’t fully explain what you are doing and, more importantly, why you are doing it. That leads to problems.

You said:

When I say that I removed the site file from the builder I mean that I went to FileZilla, clicked on the root (www.example.com) to open it, selected all the directories (.htaccess, softaculous and cgi-bin) except the wp one and deleted them.

I see the instructions saying:

## Delete all files and folders

Delete all WordPress files and folders in the main folder including the database, paying attention only to not delete the sub-folder where you are developing the new website (in this example the wordpress folder).

Perhaps the translation is bad but what I’m seeing talks about deleting an “old” WP installation, if there is one, in the “main” folder (let’s stick to calling the “main” folder, the root folder or root directory or just the root.

Those instructions don’t say to delete everything in the root, they say to delete ANY old WP installation in the root.

Did you have a WP installation in the root directory when you began this entire procedure? I’m guessing that you didn’t.

You deleted everything in the root directory except the subdirectory where WP was installed – correct?

That really screwed things up.

Do you have a backup of what was in the root directory, besides the subdiretory where WP was installed?

If not, can you remember some of the files and directories?
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Okay, let’s do this:

You will be making a backup of everything on the server, downloading latest version of WP, install it in the root directory and give it the name and password of the existing database. That should put you back in operation and then you can change settings, install any plugins, and get the site working and looking like it originally did in the subdirectory.

1) Use Filezilla to copy everything in the server root to a new directory on your computer – say c:\wpbackup Download everthing in the root to the new directory – all files and directories.

2) Delete any WP files in the root directory. Don’t delete the subdirectory where WP was installed and working. Just delete any WP files in the root – I think you have a copy of index.php in the root – if so, delete it.

3) Go to the directory you just created and copied the root to and open the wp-config.php file with something like Notepad so you can see the database settings. Write down the values for these constants:

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘dbname’

/** MySQL database username */
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘dbuser’

/** MySQL database password */
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘dbpassword’);

/** MySQL hostname */
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘dbhost’);

In the example above, the values you would copy are: dbname, dbuser, dbpassword, and dbhost. Write down the values for that information that is in the wp-config.php file in the directory of the backup – the backup copy of the subdirectory where you had WP running before starting this entire affair.

4) Download and install the latest version of WP from https://wordpress.org/latest.zip.

Short version of install: download the zip file to your computer. Unzip it. Copy everything in the wordpress directory to the server’s root. Just the contents of the wordpress directory, not the directory itself.

Go to the root of your site in your browser, such as example.com/ The installer should being. When you are asked for the database information, input what you wrote down from the wp-config.php file in step 3.

That should have you up and running with a fresh install of WP in the root.

You’ll have to change any setting you made in the copy of WP in the subdirectory and install any plugins but you should have a WP copy that runs from the root which can access your database as it was when this all started.

If you are unsure about how to do any of the steps, ask me about it first.

I have done a lot of teaching on various computing subjects and, regards of the subject, I will write “Know what you don’t know” on the black/white board, or overhead projected or whatever. I then wait for someone to say something like:

“How can you know what you don’t know? Once you know it you know it and if you don’t know it you don’t know it.”

I then write “Know where you knowledge ends” underneath.

I then explain that when doing anything, you just be constantly asking yourself “Do I know enough to continue?”

If the answer is no, you go read documentation or ask someone before continuing.

Blindly forging ahead in an area you have insufficient knownledged leads to problems, sometimes very big one.

Always be aware of how much you know about the subject at hand.

Let me know if the steps I’ve given you get you a working WP installation in the root directory on the server.

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This does not sound like a WordPress problem. Sounds to me that the external monitor is set to a resolution which prevents the entire window to be displayed – too small a resolution.

It’s been a while since I messed with an external monitor on a laptop (I’m assuming that is what you re doing) but there should be a way to set the resolution for an external monitor.

Are you using the external monitor as a second monitor or as a replacement for the laptop monitor. That is, are you setting it up to have two monitors or just one?

Go to Control Panel then to Display and then to Adjust Resolution, a menu item in the upper left corner of the Display panel.

Try setting a larger resolution for the external monitor.