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Have you checked with their support people to see why the automated thing isn’t working?

How about installing manually? Is that something you’d be up for trying if they aren’t able to help you get it resolved?

If you don’t have root access, you can still download the latest file, extract the files, and upload the latest to your server, then use your ftp program to change folder permissions and use something like phpMyAdmin to set up database and user correctly.

What are your folder permissions? In the worst case scenario, I’ll chmod permissions to 777 until the installation is complete, then I’ll close them back down again.

Are you installing manually? If so, what procedure are you following?

If you have root/shell access, you can use the manual instructions from Digital Ocean. I’m hosting some VPS with them but I also use this instruction set when working on other machines, like the server at the studio.

I hope this is of some use to you.

I, too, would like to know if there’s some automatic way to do this.

All I’m getting there is a blank page. Is there a WordPress site there? If so, I’m not seeing it. Is it a problem with your .htaccess file? Your site homepage settings in your WordPress installation? It’s hard to tell what your problem is from your description.

If you can get access to your database through phpMyAdmin or similar, you can check the domain you have listed. You’ll find it in the wp_options table in the siteurl field. You can change it back and see if that helps you.

If you also put a different homepage address in the other option, I don’t know how to access that information. It may be located in your .htaccess file but I am not experienced in editing those.

I hope this helps. In the worst case, you can always reinstall WordPress from scratch, starting with a new database.

taye007, I would definitely try reinstalling from scratch.

housepk8, from your dashboard, click Appearance >> Themes and see if your theme is listed. If not, contact the company who sold you the theme and ask them for support help.

Hoping for the best. I usually use their guide. Not only am I using their service, but I also prefer to do most of my work from the command line when possible.

Oh, the name does not have to have “wordpress” in it. I will usually use some variation just so I can quickly identify it on the site when working from the command line or phpmyadmin.

Do you have root shell access? You can run mysql to check on the user settings and set them, just to make sure.

Digital Ocean has instructions for setting up on their VPS doing almost the entire installation from the command line for Ubuntu. Perhaps their instructions concerning mysql will help?

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-wordpress-on-ubuntu-12-04

I’ve had this problem with updates because of directory ownership and permissions.

It could be the permissions on your directories. The program may not have permission to run. If you can open up your permissions with chmod, run the installation, then lock down your permissions again, that might do the trick.

You can also chown ownership of the directories and files to the www-data and see if that helps.

I found a workaround that seems to be working for the social icons reverting to the defaults. I hope this is useful for someone. I can’t do the theme reinstall right now, so this took care of the main problem for me until I can get to it.

I went to the admin directory of my theme /wordpress/wp-content/themes/admin and opened defaults.php in an editor.

I found these items.

"mantra_socialsdisplay0" => "1",
"mantra_socialsdisplay1" => "",
"mantra_socialsdisplay2" => "",
"mantra_socialsdisplay3" => "1",

(The lines above it are the default settings for each social title and link.)

I didn’t want the one on the top right of the screen, just bottom right and footer icons, so I edited as follows.

"mantra_socialsdisplay0" => "",
"mantra_socialsdisplay1" => "",
"mantra_socialsdisplay2" => "1",
"mantra_socialsdisplay3" => "1",

This seemed to take care of the problem. I can edit the links and their titles in the theme no problem. It’s just these lines that are the problem, because the theme keeps reverting to at least some of these from this file.

So, what you’re doing is hard coding changes into the theme defaults, which may disappear when you update the theme again. However, it will hopefully be fixed by that time.