allanlud

Thanks for the link WPyogi – I did have a read of that already though. I’ve checked all folders and they are set to 755, 775 and I had changed some to 777 and back to 755 to see if that would work, but I still get that error.

It seems to be mainly the 2012 folder in the uploads directory, eg. there was 4 social media icons in the footer of the site, now only one is being displayed, it is within the 2013 folder and has an absolute link in the source code, whereas the other 3 are in the 2012 folder with relative links, but there are some other images on the site in the 2012 folder that are displaying – with absolute links.

Again both these folders are set to 775 and in the settings in the control panel the path is blank, so should be default.

Thanks for the reply Tara, but I’ve gone through that already and I didn’t like the fact that it said to change the urls in the settings tab on the live site before downloading the files etc…

But I’ve read somewhere recently that the urls can be changed within the new database on the new server before WP is installed.

Thanks for the reply Handoko. I had checked it a few days ago and it was over 5000, but the site doesn’t get that much traffic.

I’ll take the steps you pointed out above.

Thanks.

Ok, this seems a bit weird. After turning on the PC at work this morning, went to https://www.mywebsite.com/blog/ and it seemed to install fine, a few errors with DB User privileges, but nothing major.

Had the new WordPress files connecting to the new Database and all was working fine. Just changed the wp-config file to point to the old Database and re-uploaded the custom theme, and everything is still fine.

Looks like this issue has been sorted. I haven’t changed anything since I tried on Friday afternoon, so my only guess is that it was a hosting provider issue.

Thanks for the reply mate. I couldn’t check error logs as I didn’t have the PW for the Control Panel (was at work). After getting it today, logged in to check error logs, but error logs are turned off.

Tried to check the site today, but the site is down (hosting company are having issues – for about 3 weeks now!). But I ddi try yesterday to see if I could access any pages in the blog directory, but the pages just seemed to be doing nothing – loading – but not actually loading, if you know what I mean.

What I tried on Friday, the time of the OP, was, create a new database, change the wp-config file and re-upload and see if that helped – was still doing the same as mentioned above (loading) whereas, before I had done that, it was just a blank page…

Oh also I had deleted ALL files from the blog directory on the site and uploaded all the latest WordPress files, so it’s a full clean install.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your input Clayton.

Yea the reason I ask is that we have some code injection on all of our sites (.php) on that server, and we are currently trying to narrow down where it came from. Today has been the best day so far (in 3 weeks). We were removing the code injection but within a few hours it came right back, I have updated a few wordpress sites today, added Better WP Security and still clean so far.

I think I’ll delete those .php.bogus files and hope for the best over the weekend.

Sorry my bad, read that 5.2.17 wrong.

Thanks for the replies guys!

Ok I have it sorted. I found this in loop.php:

<?php if ( is_archive() || is_search() ) : // Only display excerpts for archives and search. ?>

and replaced it with:

if ( is_home() || is_archive() || is_search() ) :

Sorry my post title seems to have been cut.

I want to add the_excerpt code to show a certain amount of characters or words (whichever is easiest)to each post and I’m not too sure where to add the code. I’ve tried in loop.php and loop-page.php as they are 2 of the places I have seen the_content to replace with the_excerpt.

I’m not too familiar with WordPress, didn’t know that feature existed. Thanks for that. Will give that a go.

That worked – thanks again!

Thanks Mike, I’m just going to read that Doc. now. The register form I meant was the billing or shipping address, not log in, I should have made that clearer. What I need to do is change the Postcode/Zip placeholder, preferably to 0000 as the business the site is for is in Ireland and we don’t have postcodes here ??

The shipping cost is determined by the postcode, not sure if I can change that, as it’s a plug-in I have and it says postcode required for shipping rates.

Great thanks, I’ll give it a read now.

I never used Firebug before, it’s great found exactly what I had to change.

Thanks again ??

Thanks I’ll give that a go.