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I have an exisitng website at follies.org.uk. I’ve been developing my new website at follies.org.uk/wp and it is now ready to replace the old one. I have backed up the new one by copying the whole of the wp folder to my PC using Dreamweaver. Now a few things are bothering me:
1) I’ve just received notifications from both WordPress and Enfold that new updates are ready. I’ve been reading up on child themes and don’t understand how to create one, and if I really need to. I’ve made some changes to the theme in terms of changing a few font colours on the General Styling page but nothing further. If I downlaod the latest Enfold update, will it overwrite these changes and reset them to the default colours or am I misunderstanding?
2) How do I rename my new website such that it replaces the old follies.org.uk/index.htm page? I can see on the WordPress general settings page a field that shows a Site Address of http://follies.org.uk/wp – if I change this to just http://follies.org.uk is that all I need do?.
3) As I’ve built up a lot of redundant files over the years, I’d prefer to delete eveything on the remote server and then upload the wp folder (and sub-folders) to start afrash. Is everything I need within the wp folder?
Thanks for any advice you can offer.Hey FFAlan,
You need to have a backup at all times.
Here is some theory on how to move the website
http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/wordpress/migrating-wordpress-inmotion-hosting/correct-image-links
http://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/how-to-update-urls-when-moving-your-wordpress-site/There is a child theme available in Enfold. You can export theme options from the parent theme and then import them into the child theme.
The update will overwrite files, not the theme options, your settings or content.Best regards,
VictoriaI’ve attempted to move my site and come unstuck. I’ve followed the instructions in https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory using the section labelled Method II.
So here’s what i’ve done:
Changed the wordpress address on the general settings page to follies.org.uk, omitting the /wp that was in both before. (steps 3 and 4)
Clicked save changes -nothing happened other than the page went blank.
I then moved each of the three wordpress folders from the /wp directory to the root directory.(step 5)
I removed the old index.html file and copied the index.php file to the root. I can’t see the .htaccess through Dreamweaver, so I used the ftp editor in my hosting control panel and found it was already in the root.
I took a copy of index.php and opened it in notepad. I looked for the lines in step 9 but couldn’t find them exactly like that. I found these lines:
/** Load WordPress Bootstrap */
require_once( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/admin.php’ );/** Load WordPress dashboard API */
require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php’);Now, I don’t know what to edit. My root is now follies.org.uk but I don’t know which part to type this into. If I type ‘www.follies.org.uk in a browser’ I get taken to the hosts main site. If I try and login to WordPress I just get a blank page that says ‘http://follies.org.uk/wp-login.php’ in the address bar. This is worrying as I can no longer get in, nor give you a login to have a look. I realise that this is really WordPress rather than enfold, so I’ve asked on their forum as well. Any help to get my new website visible again would be much appreciated. I’m rather desparate to see two months solid work come to nothing!
I did spend soem time trying different abckup add-ins until I found one that worked. So I do have a very recent backup, but I can only restore it through the WordPress dashbaord that i can no longer access.Hi FFAlan,
I can login to your dashboard with the token above. Can you please post FTP credentials in private?
Best regards,
VictoriaI’ve resolved it now. I found the index.php file had somehow grown to over 200 lines of code. I found an earlier version that was much shorter and copied that over instead. Things are now working as they should.
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