Index page missing theme, and links not working

  • michonline

    (@michonline)


    7 years ago

    Help please,

    I recently created a new website using WordPress for the NSW machine knitters assoc. I created it as a subdomain while the existing website stayed live. In the process of replacing the main domain with the subdomain content, I’ve broken it. The index page appears to have the content there, but the theme is missing and none of the links to other pages are working. Any ideas greatly appreciated. I am but a novice, with this being the only website I’ve ever created (have previously maintained content on another website). So I have no experience with code, or fixing a website.

    Cheers
    michonline

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • fgirach09

    (@fgirach09)

    hi

    This Should be permalink issue

    Please go to you admin Settings > permalink and click on save changes button.

    Thanks
    Farhan

    RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    Cooee digger.

    While you were developing the website you were using URLs like:
    https://mkansw.org.au/wordpress/
    But now that you have changed to production it needs to be:
    https://mkansw.org.au/
    This probably means that your WordPress Address and Website Address are both wrong, you would find these in your Admin Dashboard > Settings > General. But without CSS it may be too difficult to navigate to, so it might be easier to change these in your database from your hosting management login.
    OR you could add these lines into your “wp-config.php” file

    define('WP_HOME', 'https://mkansw.org.au');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://mkansw.org.au');

    This is probably most easily done using the file access options within the website management login.

    • This reply was modified 7 years ago by RossMitchell. Reason: typo
    Thread Starter michonline

    (@michonline)

    Thanks RossMitchell,
    I added those 2 lines to the wp-config.php file (through the file manager of our webhost) and now when I clck on a link, the content appears at the bottom of the page, instead of a 404 page not found error. However it still looks awful as if the theme is completely missing. I’ve been unable to find where to log into wordpress to see whether the settings are ok. It’s no longer sitting as an option at the top of any of the web pages.

    Thread Starter michonline

    (@michonline)

    RossMitchell,

    You are a star! I worked out where the Admin sectionw was and scrolled until I found file names that sounded relevant and hunted down to links that still referred to the old urls. I’ve changed them and it now appears to be working. Thankyou so much for taking the time to reply.

    Thread Starter michonline

    (@michonline)

    • This reply was modified 7 years ago by michonline.
    RossMitchell

    (@rossmitchell)

    Either:
    https://mkansw.org.au/wp-admin
    OR
    https://mkansw.org.au/wp-login.php
    Will give you a login, suggest that you put a bookmark to one of these into your web browser’s “Bookmarks Toolbar” so that you will have it at hand. If yours is a member’s website where people login to discuss and add content, then you will want to add a login link to a menu or a sidebar, probably a register link too, ask or start a new thread if you need help.

    Now that you are back with good settings, suggest that you correct the entries in “Dashboard > Settings > General”, and remove the special lines added previously to your wp-config.php, long term it is better this way.
    Also if appropriate mark this thread as resolved.

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