No idea what’s wrong…

  • I mistook a friend’s advice on upgrading my site, thinking he said “reinstall” wordpress rather than “get a new copy of index.php,” which is what he actually said.
    So at the same time I tried to change stylesheets and I “reinstalled” WordPress, and now it’s jacked. However, when I pointed my browser to “wp-install,” it said “it appears you already have WordPress installed, delete your database and start again.”
    Well, obviously, I don’t want to delete my database, so I have to fix what I broke some other way.
    Here’s my site.
    The error message I get at the top of the page is:
    Database error: [Unknown column ‘post_date_gmt’ in ‘where clause’]
    SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1 AND post_date_gmt <= ‘2004-08-29 00:56:59’ AND (post_status = “publish”) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 20
    And where my posts should be it says “Sorry, no posts match your criteria.”
    Any idea how to fix this?
    thanks

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  • Thread Starter Crowe

    (@crowe)

    D’OH!
    Thanks.
    Yeah, that wasn’t clear anywhere that I looked. I must have looked in the wrong place.
    I figured it was something simple and stupid.

    Crowe,
    Well, if you couldn’t find it, then perhaps there is an issue with the documentation that I will look into.
    Simple perhaps, but not stupid, I can assure you.

    Thread Starter Crowe

    (@crowe)

    When i did look for “upgrade” information it was more to see what solutions for the database non-connectivity issue there might be. But upgrading was not what i was thinking of doing at that point, I was still thinking “re-install.”
    Here’s the page I got to eventually.
    Had I just followed those instructions i’d have been fine, but, again, i wasn’t thinking “upgrade” at all so didn’t realize that would solve the problem.

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