Need help making my page look like the theme template

When I do open the local site through wordpress, it is completely empty. Just the basic template. I have no idea what happened to everything I’ve downloaded. I have no idea if I’m doing the database thing correctly, that would make sense that it’s wrong but I don’t know why.

Well, I would argue that getting this setup is far easier than building a site from scratch, but too each their own!

Good luck to you, and if you decide you want to try wordpress again, feel free to post up on the forum. I’m always happy to help!

I don’t WANT to code from scratch, I WANT this to work, I want to easily be able to work on a WordPress site, OFFLINE, and then be able to post it. (really I want to be able to work on themes without making them active, but that would be too easy)

I’m trying here, but I don’t understand why this is so difficult. I have a site. It is online. I want to work on it offline. I have XAMPP. I have a database. I have everything seemingly working. I have Duplicator. Then I can’t figure it out. I really feel incompetent. This has gotten the best of my day.

I’m going to run through all of the steps to see if I can get this to work. I’ll let you know what I do after.

One thing to make sure of though, did you install wordpress before running the duplicator? You want to start out with a blank slate database with nothing in it, and the duplicator should copy the entire live site as well as install wordpress for you.

I’ll get back to you soon after I’ve gone through the entire process.

-Kevin

Also, this tool may be worth looking into for you:
https://local.getflywheel.com/

-Kevin

One thing to make sure of though, did you install wordpress before running the duplicator? You want to start out with a blank slate database with nothing in it, and the duplicator should copy the entire live site as well as install wordpress for you.

I feel like I did, but honestly, now, I don’t know. I’ve tried so many things today, I really don’t know. I’ve installed WP so many times at different times in the process. I’m swimming in crazy.

Alright so I just went through the steps outlined here:
https://www.wpkube.com/move-backup-website-wordpress-duplicator-plugin/

And have successfully gotten the site copied. The other tutorial I sent you was not as up to date as this one, so I apologize for that.

The biggest trouble I had was on step 3. There, you need to open the folder that your site is going to be installed on, and drag and drop the archive.zip file, and the installer.php file to this folder.

Once those files and ONLY those files are in the folder, navigate to the database (localhost:8888/YOUR_DATABASE) in your browser, and open the installer.php file.

Fill out the information, and be sure that you match the “Database” with the one that you created on your localhost (“YOUR_DATABASE” in my example.) The password and username at this point will likely be “root” and “root,” unless you have changed this.

As long as you get all of the information correct in the installer, the site should install by itself. You do not want to pre install wordpress to your database, as this will break the installation. Allow the install.php file to do this for you.

This is it, I didn’t run into any roadblocks on the way when following this tutorial, but step 3 took a moment to understand.

I really hope that with this information you’re able to get this working! but if not I’m sorry for all of the confusion and time that went into this.

-Kevin

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by Kevin.

The biggest trouble I had was on step 3. There, you need to open the folder that your site is going to be installed on, and drag and drop the archive.zip file, and the installer.php file to this folder.
Once those files and ONLY those files are in the folder, navigate to the database (localhost:8888/YOUR_DATABASE) in your browser, and open the installer.php file.

I used C:\xampp\htdocs\WP
So, I only have the file created from Duplicator, and the install file, in that folder.
I then go to https://localhost/wp/installer.php, and I’m on the “Duplicator – Installer” page.
I hit “Test Connection,” and I get this:

Using Connection String:
Host=localhost; Database=wp; Uid=root; Pwd=root; Port=3306
Host: Fail
Database: Fail
Version: no connection
Compatibility: This Server: [no connection] — Package Server: [5.6.32]

If I hit “Run Deployment,” I get this:

server code: 200
status: OK
response:
INSTALL ERROR!
DATABASE CONNECTION FAILED!
Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

I think I may have gotten it to work, it went through the Duplicator installer.
But, now when I go to open the website(https://localhost/wp/), I get this error:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_get_server_info() in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\DB.php:65 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\DB.php(92): sDB->__construct() #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\DB.php(79): sDB::object() #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\DB.php(321): sDB::get() #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\model\Settings.php(91): sDB::query(‘SELECT name,val…’, ‘array’, Array) #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\model\Settings.php(228): ShoppSettings->load() #5 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\api\settings.php(35): ShoppSettings->get(‘error_logging’) #6 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\Error.php(61): shopp_setting(‘error_logging’) #7 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\Error.php(76): ShoppErrors->__construct() #8 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\api\core.php(138): ShoppError in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\DB.php on line 65

• This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by bennettua.

I think I’ve gotten it to work, but it won’t work…

I’m in the Duplicator: Installer, and everything looks ok.

But when I press the Test Site button, I get this:

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_get_server_info() in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\DB.php:65 Stack trace: #0 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\DB.php(92): sDB->__construct() #1 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\DB.php(79): sDB::object() #2 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\DB.php(321): sDB::get() #3 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\model\Settings.php(91): sDB::query(‘SELECT name,val…’, ‘array’, Array) #4 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\model\Settings.php(228): ShoppSettings->load() #5 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\api\settings.php(35): ShoppSettings->get(‘error_logging’) #6 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\Error.php(61): shopp_setting(‘error_logging’) #7 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\Error.php(76): ShoppErrors->__construct() #8 C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\api\core.php(138): ShoppError in C:\xampp\htdocs\wp\wp-content\plugins\shopp\core\library\DB.php on line 65

Apologies for the delay. Were you able to figure this out or did you decide to go another route?

-Kevin

Apologies for the delay. Were you able to figure this out or did you decide to go another route?

I tried, after someone mentioned the Shopp plugin was bunk, to get this going again…

I downloaded a new backup through Duplicator after deactivating the Shopp plugin(installed long before I got here).
Unfortunately, now something else isn’t working…

When I go to file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/wp/ in my browser, I see the two files, one for the backup, one for the installer.

When I click on the installer file, I get:

Error: PHP is not running

Duplicator requires that your web server is running PHP. Your server does not have PHP installed, or PHP is turned off.

I don’t know what is wrong here, as I hadn’t changed any settings, and I can still get on PHPmyAdmin.

Thoughts? I felt like we might have been making progress but I don’t know what changed!

I sent this on to the theme developer so he can give us some input. he should be able to provide a bit more insight than I on this issue.

-Kevin

https://local.getflywheel.com/

Please try using this ^ xampp can be complicated and hard if your new to servers.

I suggest you make things simpler and use a simpler local sever.

Kadence Themes

Offline site seems to be working now, but I can’t log in to WordPress, as in, I can’t change the theme, which was all I wanted to do in the first place, change the theme and toy with it to get it right before bringing the site back online.
There is nowhere that I can see to click on my site on the local server to log in to WordPress and change the theme.
It’s also not correctly linked to all the pictures and thumbnails.
I don’t know what to do here but I feel like this is a step closer…

Here’s a comparison screenshot to illustrate what I’m seeing: