markmcdermott

Well, I can give that a try, but I am of course on a free hosting service.
I had hoped that somewhere in my data, there might be a tally of just which PlugIns I have installed. I figured since I could locate my posts in the SQL, maybe that would be listed, too.

Well, I’m getting close. My Shop comes up, at https://markmcdermott.com/wp/shop/, with no merch, because I didn’t put WooCommerce in the install.
But the main blog, just https://markmcdermott.com/wp/, is erroring out.
I think my issue now is getting agreement on the NameServers: GoDaddy wants to use their, x10hosting has their own. I had my domain set up to direct “markmcdermott.com” to the WP directory. Now it seems I need to go straight to markmcde.x10host.com/wp/. But this is a different issue.

Added: Checking over the issue of DNS servers, I see the recommendation is that I should keep the hosting server’s DNS and add them to the domain server. Also, that changed in DNS can take up to 24 hours to “propagate” through the net. So maybe I’ll put this away for now.

Thanks loads for your suggestions!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by markmcdermott.

Well, that gave me the “error establishing a database connection” message.

I had set these lines:
define( ‘DB_NAME’, ‘markmcde_wp875’ );
define( ‘DB_USER’, ‘markmcde_wp875’ );

To the other database number.
I also set
$table_prefix = ‘wpy7_’;
To the other database table prefix. When I first got the error, I changed it back, just to see what happened.

Now there is also a line for:
define( ‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxxxxx’ );
That looks like it was set randomly. I know I didn’t pick that password. Should I change it, or somehow find the password for the new db?

Mark

I’ll check each option. Thanks.

Thanks again for the encouragement! I realize I’m trying to set one WP site to handle several functions; not just as a shop of my own, but to direct some other URLs I own to certain categories, since I find I can give category tags their own front page, too. Soon musical cheese.com will link to one of those pages, and to my air checks on Mixcloud.com.

One thing Morton didn’t cover in his intro video, which seems kind of important, is how to set up and work from child themes. well, I’m sure I’ll get it worked out for myself.

And it’s interesting to see how some of the packages I’ve downloaded have updates that the videos only hope for, just a few months later; as in, yes I CAN print mailing labels.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by markmcdermott.

Mikey,

Thanks for the suggestions. Basically, working off the Lynda.com tutorial, I liked their suggested “Storefront” theme, but did not like that it overrode the entire WP site. But as a means of practice, maybe it would be all right to run two sites of one admin account, again, just as a form of practice.

This is just intended to be a personal site, also some of the tags I use will have some domains I own referring to them (that’s probably not good practice either). The shop would just be my way of moving my collectibles without the addition of eBay or Amazon fees, or that fact that amazon won’t let me sell old videos, or multiple copies of some comics. But it’s also all meant as a sandbox for me to get some useful WP skills.

Thanks again. If you see my current markmcdermott.com site (no ‘/wp/”) you’ll see that I have a lot of room for improvement.

Mark