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Ok, great. I’ve just go get their ftp login details and then I’ll post how it all went.

Really appreciate all the help Michelle.

RE: “When I switched the site_url in WP admin I noticed that the change was made in this database(under wp_url), so I assumed I was in the right one.”

Whoops, I meant ‘the change was made in this database (under site_url)”. The wp_url doesn’t appear, as I mentioned before.

Thanks,

Sorry Michelle, I realized I didn’t change the wp_url in wp_options. However, when I went to make that adjustment I noticed that wp_url doesn’t appear in any of the pages under wp_options for this database.

Maybe I’m in the wrong database? The one I’m in is called useraccount_travelling. When I switched the site_url in WP admin I noticed that the change was made in this database(under wp_url), so I assumed I was in the right one. The other databases are:

useraccount_wor1
useraccount_wor2
useraccount_wordpress
information_schema

And the friend whose site I’m working on does have another WP website with Bluehost on this account. I really don’t want to alter that one by mistake.

Thanks again for all your help.

No, when I go to https://69.195.124.136/~useraccount/travelingmilemarkers/ it doesn’t show the new website. It used to until I changed the WP URL settings to travelingmilemarkers.com. Now it’s just a 404 error.

I did change the URL in phpMyAdmin in two places. I pasted the exact method I used at the end of this message.

And yes, the domain was originally registered with Bluehost. They actually provided us with it: https://69.195.124.136/~useraccount/travelingmilemarkers/

Thanks for your help, though. If you have any other thoughts I’d love to hear them.

Changing the URL directly in the database
If you know how to access phpMyAdmin on your host, then you can edit these values directly to get you up and running again.

Backup your database and save the copy off-site.
Login to phpMyAdmin.
Click the link to your Databases.
A list of your databases will appear. Choose the one that is your WordPress database.
All the tables in your database will appear on the screen.
From the list, look for wp_options. Note: The table prefix of wp_ may be different if you changed it when installing.
Click on the small icon indicated as Browse.
A screen will open with a list of the fields within the wp_options table.
Under the field option_name, scroll down and look for siteurl.
Click the Edit Field icon which usually is found at the far left at the beginning of the row.
The Edit Field window will appear.
In the input box for option_value, carefully change the URL information to the new address.
Verify this is correct and click Go to save the information.
You should be returned to your wp_options table.
Look for the home field in the table and click Edit Field. Note There are several pages of tables inside wp_options. Look for the > symbol to page through them.
In the input box for option_value, carefully change the URL information to the new address.
Verify this is correct and click Go to save the information.

Ah, thanks for pointing that out Michelle. Perhaps that’s part of the problem.

Any idea why I’m not able to access the admin login via https://69.195.124.136/~useraccount/travelingmilemarkers/ though, despite changing the URL in the database? this is the bluehost site.

Really, I’d like to just get things back to the way they were even if that means going with the https://69.195.124.136/~useraccount/travelingmilemarkers/ URL again.

And yes, I forgot to mention that https://www.travelingmilemarkers.com/ is the old Weebly website — all the content has been changed. They don’t want to use that anymore.

Thanks.

OK, here’s the backstory: I created a new website for a friend of mine using WordPress. Their old site was using Weebly with a GoDaddy domain.

They moved the domain over to Bluehost but I created their new WP site on what appears to be a temporary domain provided by Bluehost. Here’s what they gave us: https://69.195.124.136/~useraccount/travelingmilemarkers/

So then I tried to switch the URL in the general settings in WP to just https://www.travelingmilemarkers.com. And that’s when the trouble began.

All input appreciated. Thanks.

Thanks for the input, still no luck though.

Would the fact that it’s a temporary URL, (for example: : https://69.195.144.178usernamewebsite.com) be causing additional problems?

Thanks again.

Ah, it was the optimizepress plugin update. I deactivated it and everything went back to normal. Thanks for the advice.

Time to give OP some hell ??

Hmmm, no takers?

I’m wondering what would happen if I switched off my Timthumb and used WordPress thumbnails instead? Just worried it might mess up all the other images in my blog that are fine. Also, would this be the problem with my slider (Titanslider) not working?

Thanks.

Oh, and I noticed this right after I updated a couple of plugins. (optimizepress, WordPress SEO). Probably just a coincidence, but thought I’d point it out in case it helps.

Thanks,

Ah, it’s an Optimizepress issue. Working now.

One final comment: the page was made using the new optimizepress 2 plugin – not the theme.

OK, I put the code <?php do_action( ‘wpe_gce_head’ ); ?> back in. (theme problem wasn’t related to this at all).

Google still can’t validate the code, though.

Yikes! I’m actually having some trouble with my theme now, after including the code after the <head> tag. Seems my theme isn’t displaying.

Not sure if this is coincidence or not.

Here’s part of the code from header.php. I took out the code I added to see if it solved the problem.

<!doctype html> <!– Start of page HTML5 enabled –>
<head> <!– Start of head –>
<?php do_action( ‘wpe_gce_head’ ); ?>
<meta charset=”utf-8″>
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=edge,chrome=1″>
<title>
<?php
if(is_home()) echo bloginfo(__(‘name’) , ‘h-framework’ );
elseif(is_category()) {
_e(‘Browsing the Category ‘ , ‘h-framework’ );
wp_title(‘ ‘, true, ”);
} elseif(is_archive()) wp_title(”, true,”);
elseif(is_search()) echo __( ‘Search Results for’ , ‘h-framework’ ).$s;
elseif(is_404()) _e( ‘404 – Page got lost!’ , ‘h-framework’);
else bloginfo(__(‘name’ , ‘h-framework’)); wp_title(__(‘-‘ , ‘h-framework’), true, ”);

?></title>

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”<?php echo get_option(SN.”_favicon”); ?>” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”RSS 2.0″ href=”<?php bloginfo(‘rss2_url’); ?>” /><!– Feed –>
<link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘pingback_url’); ?>” />
<?php if ( is_singular() && get_option( ‘thread_comments’ ) ) wp_enqueue_script( ‘comment-reply’ );
wp_head(); ?>

What’s really interesting is that I downloaded one of the photos that got screwed up from my media library (it was a big one to start with), reduced the size with GIMP and then uploaded it again to my page. It still displayed huge – same problem as before.

So then I downloaded the original photo from my external harddrive (so this file never went through Smush It) and loaded it again. Displays fine. No problem.