greenpeas

Yes, actually that’s what caused the site to not load. After I upgraded to PHP 8, the site was loading fine, as my other sites. I noticed this one was not working a few days later. It was using the twentyten theme. I was going to use a new but similar theme.

yeah, I noticed that. I am recovering the backup files via 1and1’s webspace backup. I checked the config file again and make sure it reflects the correct database.

Unfortunately, I’m back to a previous error now:

ArgumentCountError thrown
Too few arguments to function WP_Widget::__construct(), 0 passed in /homepages/40/d154139219/htdocs/stembridge/wordpress/wp-includes/class-wp-widget-factory.php on line 61 and at least 2 expected

EDIT Ok, cleared the database temples as described here as a non-destructive way to get a db back online. It worked, except it is reading the initial date from the file, which is mainly what I want!

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by greenpeas.

It appears that my database is not working. When opening phpMyAdmin, I see the posts/links and other information but it doesn’t show up on my site. I’m using the original backed-up files.

Any additional ideas?

Thanks, yes that helps. Here’s my FTP program, yet I don’t see an option to compress prior to downloading. How is that done? I’m on a Mac.
my ftp program

Thanks for the illustration ?? that does make it easier to understand. I have the wp-content folder backup, is that what you mean regarding 1and1 or a database backup?
I was thinking the database is still online and can be linked via config file…

Actually technically I don’t have a have a recent back up, but the database is still on 1and1.com server. The site hasn’t been updated very much in a while, it just has a lot of old family history information on it.

Is an export considered a backup?

ugh, well it was working ?? Back to the drawing board

It’s connected and working now, I am having to reactivate the theme/plugins… etc but it is working now! Thanks again!

Thank you very much for your help Vijay. I went ahead and removed my WP installation after backing up and reloaded a clean install. I edited the config file and added my DB information. I’m getting the “wordpress error establishing database” error.

Looking up some tips for getting it connected. I have done that, it has been a few years!

Unfortunately, that didn’t work either

What is the standard permissions for CHMOD?

EDIT, Okay, I found where and how to verify permissions, everything was good there.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by greenpeas.

Perfect, thanks. I’ll play around with these.

That was it, thanks!

It was AdBlock!
Thanks @wahmaholic!

Yes, perfect. Thanks!