Tim Nash
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Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Can't update to wordpress 4Is this showing on the front or back of your site?
If you have access to the back of your site, are you able to switch your theme to the default 2014 theme?
If so does the error persist?
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: Lost login details, registered email address disabledYou will probably find the following useful:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-password-email-retrieval-not-working?replies=1
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: max size of tmp fileWhat tmp file?
Your host will have a folder called /tmp/ on most unix systems, which PHP can again in most systems write to which is exactly what it says a temporary storage location.Some caching systems, also write temporary files to wp-uploads folder?
Or it maybe something totally unrelated to WordPress
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: bug after wordpress upgradeMake sure you have updated any plugins related to your contact form and your slider. Where your slider use to be is there an error message?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: can't log inIf you have automatic updates enabled, you are already on version 4.0.1 it’s just your copy of wp-login.php that you manually upload that is not. So a quick position to get back into the right position is just upload a copy from WordPress.org and start from there.
With regard to security, every site get’s attacked if you are restricting access by IP and limiting logins etc then those attacks will be on the whole unsuccessful. Combined with a good strong password or even better passphrase and two factor authentication or similar extra security and you don’t need to worry.
Remember that someone attacking your site is not the same as someone actually getting in. For example as many attacks will be happening against your FTP credentials as will be against your WordPress site.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: 4.0.1 Auto Installed, Cannot Access AccountsHave far along do you get, if you visit wp-login.php
Does the login screen appear?
On entering username and password what happens?Do you get a whitescreen or some sort of error? If a whitescreen do you have access to an error log, either on the server itself or through your hosting providers control panel?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: can't log inDownload a fresh copy of WordPress from wordpress.org and overwrite all your existing files. If this just happened, its probably be because WordPress auto updated to latest security release and you are trying to upload the wp-login.php of the older release.
I really wouldn’t recommend you removing your wp-login.php file constantly. It’s not really going to help make you site any more secure and is a huge amount of pointless extra work. If you are worried about bruteforce attacks, then consider installing a Brute Force protection plugin, configuring your server via htaccess to limit access to wp-admin by IP or using a two factor authentication. Or indeed all of the above, but not removing and adding files.
Forum: Installing WordPress
In reply to: can't change or edit itemIs the portfolio items a feature of a theme you perhaps installed?
If so have you recently removed the theme or updated it?Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: youtube oEmbed problemsDo you have similar issues with other oEmbed content such as something from slideshare or similar?
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: An error occurred in the upload. Please try again later.When you try to upload a picture do you get some sort of error message?
As you have chatted to your host, did they provide an error message that might be showing up in your logs.Finally is it one particular picture you can’t upload, have you tried re-uploading a picture that you have previously uploaded (i.e download it and then reupload, which should make a duplicate)
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: word admin database table unavailableWordPress is trying to repair itself you can find out more about this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Automatic_Database_OptimizingTo allow it to do this, you need to open up your wp-config.php file in the root of your site and add the define statement, save and rerun the page.
If WordPress is able to repair itself you can then safely remove that line from your config file. If it can’t then you may need to contact your hosting provider.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Overwrite WP 4.x upgrade with 3.2 to keep site updatesWhen WordPress auto-updates with it’s built in updater, it only updates the core. Your plugins and theme files remain.
You may find in some extreme cases that your plugins are deactivated, and need reactivating which may restore your missing functionality. You may also find you need to update any plugins you have to fully restore site functionality in some cases.
If your developer made edits to your core WordPress files these would have been lost when you updated and the only way to easily retrieve them would be through your backup. However it’s unlikely that they would have done so, as any update would overwrite such edits.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Blank wp-comments-post.php since WP 4.0 upgradeDo either of you have access to your error logs? (If you are using a shared host, this will most likely be in your hosts control panel. On a VPS or similar most likely var/logs/apache2/ or similar depending on your http server)
If so immediately after positing a comment check the log and see if an error is shown, so we can hopefully track down your issue.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: problem with "require_once" in child themeThe quick fix, go into the file in the child theme and remove any “require_once” commands as the parent theme has already loaded the files. If the file has any classes in it they will need to be renamed and then you are good to go.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Deleted text widget and lost code for Oxygen themeUnder Appearance -> Widgets
You can drag and drop widgets in the widget area, depending on your theme, if you leave a “sidebar” the name for the areas widgets are in and not always a sidebar (it can be confusing terminology) empty then widgets may shunt along, which could be whats happening in this case.Also give the folks in the Oxygen area a chance while frustrating for yourself, many people don’t look at the support forums over the weekend and they may well spend much of monday catching up.