Aaron

Hello AltMedDeva,

I had a post earlier which was deleted. I’ll try again.

What is the full url of the current website?
What is the full url that you want for your current website?

Are you moving to a new hosting company or server?

If so, what is the hosting company for your current website?
What is the hosting company for your new website?

Aaron

When you moved your blog, did you update the WordPress address and the site address?

Settings -> General

Make sure they are set to the correct domain and path.

I believe to solve your problem, the easiest way is to turn off comments for your blog.

Under Settings->Discussion, uncheck “Allow people to post comments on new articles.”

You can still turn that on for specific articles if you want comments on a particular article.

I haven’t worked with gorillathemes, so I don’t know how configurable they are. I have used genesis themes (a framework) with child themes. They are a little more expensive, but they have great flexibility, which may help you achieve what you desire.

The genesis theme and agent “child theme” may work well for you.
https://www.studiopress.com/demo/agentpress.html

No. you’re not dreaming. This is the great benefit of using WordPress. WordPress gives you the ability to customize extensively. But some of that customization depends on the templates or themes that you choose. Some are easier than others.

So, your steps are to pick your theme.
Create your backup (work-in-process) website based on your current website.
Add your new theme and your changes to your WIP website until you are satisfied.
Move your backup to your primary domain

There is always something you can do to fix it. But sometimes it just takes a bit of looking to find the problem. ??

There may be a plugin or other template issue that may be causing the problem. Do you have other videos that are working correctly?

If not, I would tend to look at the styles.

Are you running any particular plugin that works with video? There may be a conflict there.

I have used WordPress Video Plugin, which allows simple code such as
[vimeo 10652665].

You might want to try that.

Good questions.

I do this fairly regularly.

Backup your current site, both the database and the files.
Create a new installation of WordPress and install it in a subdirectory of your choice or on a separate domain.
Then copy all of the files from your backup to your temporary subdirectory.
Restore your database to the new temporary database.
Update your wp-config.php file of your temporary site to point to the new database, which you just restored from backup.

Now you should be able to log onto the new test site and do all of the work you want to do. When you are ready to go live, you will simply need to backup your live site (files and database), just in case something goes wrong.
Move your new site to the folder structure of your original site. The database will not need to be moved. But you will need to update the location of the website in the database (or you can do it in the General Settings, just before you move the files). There are some additional database updates that need to be done as well.

Here is the official link to moving the blog.

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These may be core pieces of the template, or they may be widgets, depending on the theme that you are using.

If they are widgets, then you will probably be able to move them by using the widgets (under appearance in your dashboard). If this is the case, then on the right, you may see various “sidebars”.

If this is part of the core template, then you would need to edit the style.css file. Each theme has it’s own styles and options.

Is this something you are familiar with?

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Aaron

The table won’t help. It looks like the player code is including a height and width that does not match the actual video.

Vimeo will allow you to edit set the code size. Click on the video. Then you should see an “embed” link on the top-right of the video. Click the embed link and it will show you the code. It will look something like this:
`<iframe src=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/13827788?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&#8243; width=”400″ height=”300″ frameborder=”0″></iframe><p>Advantages of the Global SunOven from Aaron Mackley on Vimeo.</p>’

Notice the width=”400″ height=”300″. This should match the size of your video.

In a post, you must paste this in the html tab, not the Visual tab.

I believe it may be referring to the database login that is used in your wp-config.php. That needs to match what your database is expecting. However, if that were the case, I would think that you would not be able to connect at all.

Your wp-config file will have something that looks like this (obviously I have inserted non-identifying database information):

// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', '528202_yourDBname');

/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', '528202_yourDBUserName');

/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'yourpasswordH!@');

/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'mysql50-25.wc2.dfw1.somehost.com');

You set up a database and a username when you created the installation. Depending on your servers, the MySQL hostname may be ‘localhost’ or it may have a specific machine name, like in the example above.

If you don’t know this information, you will need to contact your hosting company.

Are the images very large?

The theme is probably converting the images that you load to both a thumbnail size and a on-screen view. If you are loading very large photos, it may have trouble creating the correct screen version. That’s just a guess.

Can you re-load the image and replace that photo?

Have you done any recent updates?

Try adding this statement to your .htaccess file:

php_value memory_limit 64M

esmi, I’ll keep that in mind. I tend to reload defaults first, maybe unnecessarily.

David,

esmi’s comments are excellent first steps. I would probably work from the bottom of, however.

Let me know if you need some help understanding any of the steps.

For anyone else reading this issue.

In order to resolve this problem, you need to have access to the file structure through ftp or through a cpanel (control panel). Steps:

I first loaded a script that I have written to zip all of the files and backup the data. I executed the script to create the zip backup.

Next, I copied the current wp-config.php and her .htaccess files offline to my working machine (as a backup to restore later)

Then I took a default installation of wordpress and loaded the files. (Actually, I loaded the zip file and then unzipped it on the server and moved the wordpress directory into the root wordpress directory, thus over-writing existing wordpress files. It does not touch any additional themes or other files which are not part of the original install. )

Then I re-copied her wp-config.php and .htaccess files back into her root wordpress directory.

Then she tested to make sure she could re-login and work. Yep. Everything working again.

Then I deleted the zip backup and the zipped wordpress installation that I put on the server.

indamarisa, you probably ought to mark this issue resolved. Use the drop-down menu on the right side of this page.

Sorry about the wrong address, use this:
https://upstartmediamarketing.zendesk.com

I’ll contact you via email.