Changed my WordPress address (URL) now I've lost everything

You’ll have to access your WordPress database via phpMyAdmin (most hosting providers offer this in their control panel) and manually change the siteurl and home values back to https://www.calgaryalpine.com/carc-wordpress

When you’re done, follow this guide to move WordPress.

Thank you James, I’ll speak with the company that’s hosting this tomorrow. It’s amazing that such a small and easy to make change requires such prowess to correct, if I can correct it at all. I can kind of log in to my admin panel but it looks like this:

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Any idea what’s going on?

Yep, that’s the problem.

Because you changed the URLs without moving the files, WordPress is now looking for its resource files at calgaryalpine.com, except they don’t exist there so it can’t find them.

You can correct the issue by following the instructions and guides that I linked to above.

Alternatively, if your intention was to move everything to calgaryalpine.com, follow this guide and start at step 9.

Hi James,

Having a bit of trouble getting database access from the web host this site is hosted on, but I did move the entire site over to calgaryalpine.com. The main page loads fine, but for all the menu items that are clicked it looks for the file at the old address (eg. the Coaches menu item calls https://www.calgaryalpine.com/carc-wordpress/coaches instead of calgaryalpine.com/coaches). Is there any solution that doesn’t involve accessing the database in light of this? Thanks a lot for your advice and time looking into this.

Joel

Also I can’t log in to either admin panel anymore.

Have you tried this fix?

Thanks for your interest pcgrejaldo, but yes I have, to no avail.

Having a bit of trouble getting database access from the web host this site is hosted on, but I did move the entire site over to calgaryalpine.com. The main page loads fine, but for all the menu items that are clicked it looks for the file at the old address (eg. the Coaches menu item calls https://www.calgaryalpine.com/carc-wordpress/coaches instead of calgaryalpine.com/coaches). Is there any solution that doesn’t involve accessing the database in light of this? Thanks a lot for your advice and time looking into this.

Since you moved your wordpress to root and you say that your home page works fine but links do not you need to reset your permalinks.

In Settings Permalinks switch to default and save see if your links work.

If they do then go back to custom structure ans save now check if your links work.

Thanks govpatel but I can’t log in to my admin panel at all. The links aren’t permalinks either, they’re generated by wordpress along with the menu. I think I may just have to reinstall WordPress and start over

FYI – I just did the same thing. I’m a computer guy so thankfully I’m not intimidated by the solution, but I do wish there would’ve been a prompt saying something like “you know this will break everything if you haven’t moved your files, right?”.

I think such an action should probably be hidden as well. If it requires fairly advanced action the option to change the URL should probably not be out in the open like that.

Just my two cents, FWIW.

Thank you to everyone above for the answer though!

Oh… actually, I just fixed it. When I heard “access your WordPress database via phpMyAdmin”, I thought I’d have to issue direct SQL calls, etc.

Home location is just a field on the domain.com (my hosting provider) menu. Thanks again for the fix!

I still wonder if there’s a better way to do this though, seems like something that could throw folks for a loop?