linking old wordpress blog when installing on a mac through mamp.

  • Resolved dsmmcm1415

    (@dsmmcm1415)


    10 years, 4 months ago

    Hello, I’m a noob so please bare with me.

    I’ve just installed WordPress with MAMP on my mac, how do I link it my old WordPress blog? It only gave me the option to start a new one. Even when I logged out to try to log back into my original blog, it wouldn’t accept the username and password.

    What am I doing wrong? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

    Kind regards
    Tom

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  • Thread Starter dsmmcm1415

    (@dsmmcm1415)

    Bump!

    Could anyone direct me towards to helpful tutorials?

    Hi @dsmmcm1415,

    What do you mean by “my old WordPress blog”. Is this a blog you had locally but you were using a different tool (eg: XAMPP or Vagrant)?

    Daniel

    Thread Starter dsmmcm1415

    (@dsmmcm1415)

    Hi Daniel, thanks for your reply.

    Sorry if I wasn’t clear, I made a blog and have bought my own domain name. I wanted to optimise (SEO) it and add/install plugins, therefore needed the plugin feature in the dashboard. From what I understand, this can only be done by installing MAMP in order to get the full features in the WordPress blog dashboard (on macs).

    After the MAMP installation, WordPress only gave me the option to start a new account/blog. I tired to log out then log back into my original blog but it just didn’t let me log in, unless I logged in from the main WordPress home page which again, didn’t allow me to get the added plugin features in the dashboard.

    So basically, I installed MAMP on my mac and I want to link my own (bought from WordPress) domain name to it.

    I hope I have cleared things up.

    I have tired looking for tutorial but cannot find anything. I am sure its simple and I’m just missing something basic.

    Thanks

    Hi @dsmmcm1415,

    I think you may be a bit confused about this, let me try and clear it up. MAMP is a software for macs (and Windows) which allows you to run a server on your computer. It essentially allows you to create websites on your computer by using it as the server.

    This has nothing to do with a site you have online, there are no WordPress features which are activated after you install something on your computer.

    You should be able to install any plugin on your online WordPress site by going to plugins->add new in the dashboard. If you don’t see the plugins menu it is because you are not using an admin account.

    If you are logged in as an author or an editor you won’t see any settings or plugins because your account isn’t authorized to make those kinds of changes.

    In a nutshell, you definitely do not need to install MAMP or any other local server to unlock WordPress features on your website.

    Daniel

    Thread Starter dsmmcm1415

    (@dsmmcm1415)

    Could the modorator please delete this thread.

    Kinds Regards

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