I broke my site

  • Resolved carlman3

    (@carlman3)


    14 years, 1 month ago

    I had version 2.6.x? of WordPress and did an update to 3.0.1. That wiped out the viewable content of my client’s site. I worked with a developer to make a fairly customized blog site… He hasn’t returned my emails so now I’m kind of stuck trying to work it out.

    Check it out: https://askgavino.com/

    I’m fairly technical (data analyst) but I don’t know PHP. It seems to me the update changed where things were in my custom theme.

    If someone can give me a checklist of things to look for to even get started trying to figure out what went wrong, I would appreciate it.

    If you want to work with me to fix, send me a nice email and your phone number and I’ll give you a login to take a look ‘under the hood’ and of course, pay you.. I just need to get the site working again.

    Thanks,
    Carl

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  • By the looks of it, your CSS is messed up. Check the CSS of your site, make sure it is pulling from the right area.

    Carl there must be a style.php in your theme folder.Can you paste here content of that file.

    Thread Starter carlman3

    (@carlman3)

    You may be correct about the style or css.. sounds completely plausible.
    Here is the style.php file contents:

    <?php

require_once '../../../wp-blog-header.php';

if (isset($options['style'])) {

if ($options['text_direction'] == 'rtl') {
header('Content-type: text/css');
print <<<_CSS
@import url(styles/${options['style']}/stylesheet.css);
@import url(styles/${options['style']}/rtl.css);
_CSS;
} else {
header('Content-type: text/css');
print <<<_CSS
@import url(styles/${options['style']}/stylesheet.css);
_CSS;
}

} else {

header('Content-type: text/css');
print <<<_CSS
@import url(styles/default/stylesheet.css);
_CSS;

}

?>

    In your style.css there is one line
    @import url(“style.php”);

    Now remove this line and put all content of styles/default/stylesheet.css in style.css

    Thread Starter carlman3

    (@carlman3)

    OK.. So I have moved all my styles (comments and styles.php) into 1, stylesheet.css to get the site to look good on everything but the front page.
    The only thing missing is the most important, the actual articles and their categories or ‘posts’.. They are all missing. They are in the database, I can see it all in the admin, it just doesn’t display.
    The pagezone div appears to be missing..
    I have a friend helping me but he is not a WordPress person but knows a lot more than me in programming.

    We’re stuck. Thanks for the help!

    -Carl

    Thread Starter carlman3

    (@carlman3)

    If anyone is interested in helping me for pay, please contact me via PM here or email, cmcmillan3 at yahoo dot com.
    Thanks,
    Carl

    Thread Starter carlman3

    (@carlman3)

    The original developer got the site back up and running.. Not sure the extent of the issues but it’s mostly fixed now. Thanks for the helpful responses.
    -Carl

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