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Mr Case, I think I love you.
That fixed it. You are a legend, thank you so much.

Thanks for the reply Jose. Much appreciated

Yes, that’s the one. I wasn’t aware there were specific theme forums, I will look into that.

When the page loads the text is centered with large blank spaces to the borders. There is only one word on each line running straight down the center of the page.
If that makes sense.
Nothing seems to resize or format to fit the size of the screen.

Got my local site back up.

I think I’m going to rebuild the live site from scratch rather than waiting for these uploads and messing around with everything else…

This could end in disaster, but I appreciate the help!

If I could get my local site back up and running I could rebuild the entire thing faster than this upload…

They have cPanel, but no unlimited ftp with host gator. So I can only upload one file at a time, or upload through a ftp client such as cyberduck.
I think the speed issue is a problem with my crappy internet provider.

Well I have roughly 4 hours until my files have uploaded. I’m sure that should be long enough to learn.

It seems as though there should be a much easier way to do this.
Or maybe there is and I’m just an idiot (which is very likely).

I managed to get the FTP working.
So I am uploading the wordpress folder. It’s 80mb with an estimated 9 hours to upload…

This is going to be painful.

If I can get this uploaded and have managed to download the sql (already uploaded to my host). Do I need to resurrect my local host site, or do I have what I need to take everything live now.?

Thanks again Sir.

Nothing.
When entered manually into the url box it automatically downloads an empty file

Found it.
tried changing site URL and Home to:

https://localhost:8888/wordpress
https://localhost
https://localhost/wordpress/

None of these have worked. Do I need to refresh or reload my local server or should it be automatic?

https://tinypic.com/r/28i2u6h/8

I don’t know where to place the modified sql file now.

my “wp_options” folder does not look the same as the one in your photo, so I don’t know what to change there.
I will try replacing the url in the sql file now

Thanks Creative Minds, you are a champion.

I assume that original with the livesite url is what I will need when I transfer my site across to my live server.?

I’m having issues transferring the wordpress files to my live site. The FTP server is not working. I am trying to contact host gator now, but once I get that sorted then I should be able to get my site up and running on the live server, correct.?

Thanks again, this is way harder than I expected.

ps: thanks for all the help creativemind. I’m definitely not smart enough for any of this.