I was having SSL issues which is what I thought my issues were being caused by now i’m guessing wordpress itself it out of date compared to 7.2 PHP. So I messed up, what now?
What’s my best route, eliminate plugin folder, though I’m using a5 login as a login page mover. I’m trying to do the least amount of damage possible. But I was thinking of just renaming the files named and using what these folks talk about in this thread in regards to the patch. or commenting out the existing and pasting in the rest. Then I saw one of the comments and it looks like they anticipated moving from 4.8.9 WP on PHP 7.1+ would have this issue. Advice anyone?

I’m getting Not Matching Page errors thats when I flipped on the wp_config verbose debugger

Deprecated: __autoload() is deprecated, use spl_autoload_register() instead in /home3/shopnuts/public_html/wp-includes/compat.php on line 502

//should I manually patch this? Advice or comments, experiences?

Deprecated: Function create_function() is deprecated in /home3/shop/public_html/wp-content/plugins/custom-login-page/class-lib/CLP_WidgetClass.php on line 233

Deprecated: Function create_function() is deprecated in /home3/shop/public_html/wp-content/plugins/revslider/includes/framework/functions-wordpress.class.php on line 258

Deprecated: Function create_function() is deprecated in /home3/shop/public_html/wp-includes/pomo/translations.php on line 208

Notice: Undefined index: action in /home3/shop/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-cufon/wp-cufon.php on line 322
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I am helping out a friend who hasn’t had anyone touch his site in a few years.
I want to go in there and give it a bit of a facelift and optimize it for SEO.
I went to install Yoast SEO but it said it wouldn’t install because the site isn’t updated. Right now it is using WordPress 3.8.25 version and running Iconic One theme.

However, apparently the theme has some customizations and a child theme was not created. I know just enough about this stuff to sound smart but I cannot tell what the customizations are nor do I know how to create a child theme (and if it’s too late to do so at this point). And I know if I update the theme, all of the customizations are going to go away.

I read a bunch of stuff about updating the theme without losing the customization but it only made my brain spin. I don’t want to break anything in the theme if I update the site but I also don’t know how to ensure the customizations stay put during the update. So I’m in a bit of a conundrum.

Is it possible to update the site without updating the theme? And if not, is there an easy step-by-step how-to guide for dummies (emphasis) on how to update a theme that has been customized without losing the customization.

I would really appreciate your help!

I am helping out a friend who hasn’t had anyone touch his site in a few years.
I want to go in there and give it a bit of a facelift and optimize it for SEO.
I went to install Yoast SEO but it said it wouldn’t install because the site isn’t updated. Right now it is using WordPress 3.8.25 version and running Iconic One theme.

However, apparently the theme has some customizations and a child theme was not created. I know just enough about this stuff to sound smart but I cannot tell where the customizations are nor do I know how to create a child theme (and if it’s too late to do so at this point). And I know if I update the theme, all of the customizations are going to go away.

I read a bunch of stuff about updating the theme without losing the customization but it only made my brain spin. I don’t want to break anything in the theme if I update the site but I also don’t know how to ensure the customizations stay put during the update. So I’m in a bit of a conundrum.

Is it possible to update the site without updating the theme? And if not, is there an easy step-by-step how-to guide for dummies (emphasis) on how to update a theme that has been customized without losing the customization.

I would really appreciate your help!

I’m taking over a third party vendor who apparently did a lot with the code/plugin and added there own things in. They tell me they have to keep the site hosted where they are or it break the site. I’m essentially taking over SEO (Yoast), Google Analytics (which I had to start over and they used their own tool).

My desire is to start over, but that is not a choice by the client.

• Is there a rule of thumb as to when to update versions? (The vendor started with 3.7 and never updated anything – I typical update each time to avoid these kids of conflicts). I would have updated 3.8, 3.9, 4.0 etc …Or is there a good reason for never changing?
• Is there a rule of thumb as to when to update plugins? Again, the vendor never updated so Yoast is significantly behind. Or is there a good reason for never changing?
• Same question for themes such as Ultimatum?
• I’m traditionally a Dreamweaver CS6 user and would like to know if anyone out there has successfully also used Dreamweaver to manage admin with WP?

Your opinions and direction would be most helpful. I appreciate very much.

My site is now down entirely and as a WP beginner, it is well beyond my scope and I’m not sure how to get it all back working again.

I wonder if it could be related to the older 5.0 MySQL version running on my server? There are no errors in the error log currently.

Thank you in advance for your help and your time, it is so greatly appreciated!

Recently, we upgraded to WordPress 3.8.1 and some of the custom design work a former employee put in has disappeared.

Also, Google Analytics code has also disappeared from the source code.

We use BackUp buddy but have posted several blogs since updating to 3.8.1.

Is it typical to lose custom work when upgrading to a different version of WordPress?

Here is the blog:

www.cushingco.com/blog

We have the latest version of the theme running and all our plug ins are the latest version.

Any assistance or direction is appreciated.

The error can be seen here at the top of every one of my pages.
www.RockCastleStorage.com

Error
Warning: Missing argument 2 for wpdb::prepare(), called in /home/content/08/8767108/html/wp-content/themes/revelation-theme/lib/theme-sidebars.php on line 51 and defined in /home/content/08/8767108/html/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 992

I looked at the files and the theme-sidebars.php on line 51 reads:
$widgetized_pages = $wpdb->get_col( $wpdb->prepare(“SELECT DISTINCT meta_value FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = ‘celta_sidebar'” ) );

The line on 992 in wp-db.php it reads:
function prepare( $query, $args ) {

Not sure if this is the info needed to fix, but that is what the error is referring to.

Any help would be awesome.

Thanks,

Dustin

PS. I tried to error out my wp-config.php file to hide the error with “@ini_set(‘display_errors’, 0);”. But had no luck on hiding the error.

Thank you, any help would be appreciated,

David

Unfortunately I can no longer see my blog. I can access the admin panel at https://www.londonvenueguide.com/blog/wp-admin but when I try to access the actual blog page, https://www.londonvenueguide.com/blog I just get a blak white screen.

Does any kind soul have any ideas what the issue could be? I’m at my wits end trying to resolve it!

Mike

https://melissassimplysweet.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=%2Fwp-admin%2F

… rather than taking me to her dashboard. I’ve read that it could be a plugin conflict issue and that I should try to disable all WP plugins. Since I can’t get to the WP dashboard anymore, I tried to disable them through her MySQL database, however I do not know what I’m doing with MySQL and whenever I tried running the script:

UPDATE wp_options SET option_value = ” WHERE option_name = ‘active_plugins’;

… to disable all plugins, it notifies me “#1146 – Table ‘melissassimply.wp_options’ doesn’t exist”

Not sure what is causing this issue but I’m really at a loss here as to what to do. I’d like to just get everything back to the way it was and downgrade to the previous version of WordPress but I don’t want to lose her current WP pages and posts. Can anyone please help?