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Hi Firoz,

Thanks for your help. Looks like the issue is being caused by WPML so we’ll have to go back to their support. We have WPML set to English but for some reason it’s changing the default of the site to Polish.

Best wishes,
Mel

“I assume that if you point this imported site to one of your other local databases, the site then works fine?”

Ooh, that’s a good troubleshooting step I hadn’t tried! Nope, when I point the locally downloaded live site to another database on my computer, it still fails to make the connection. But if I set up the clean install of WP as the active site in MAMP, then that works . . . I’ve tried copying and pasting the first four variables from wp-config from the clean WordPress to my downloaded site just to see if there was a trailing space or errant punctuation but that still hasn’t worked.

Hi CJ! Thanks for your reply.

1. Yes, I can confirm that I do.

2. Yes, as part of my troubleshoot, I downloaded and successfully installed a clean version of WordPress, which works fine.

3. config.sys is a new one to me. Where do I find that? I have been editing wp-config.php. The database name is correct. DB-Host is set to ‘localhost’ (also tried it using 127.0.0.1, with no success). For the user and password, I have tried both ‘root’ ‘root’ as well as the username and password that was used on the live site (since both users exist on my local installation). Neither of these was successful.

4. Yes, the database is accessible using PhpMyAdmin.

5. Yes, the database is imported from the live Dreamhost site.

6. Yes.

Thanks, for helping me get to the bottom of this. It often ends up being something obvious but after so many hours of trying, fresh insight is appreciated.

Hi @t-p,

Yes, as I attempted to indicate in the initial post, I’ve already addressed the guidance in the Codex. I’ve read copiously as well as combing through forum and walking through previous advice before starting a new thread requesting help.

I understand that “Error establishing a database connection” means that there is a problem with the connection to the database. I’ve tried for hours to verify that the info contained in wp-config.php matches the MySQL set up. Obviously, I’m doing something wrong because it’s not actually working.

Any more specific guidance, unusual things to try, or troubleshooting steps would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Thanks, photoMaldives! That’s worked!

I’m having the same issue – the update seems to have broken the Dropbox back up.

I’m getting the following error:
ERROR: Dropbox API: (401) Access token not found.

But I actually no longer see a way to check or enter my Dropbox details – it’s like it’s disappeared.

Any help?

Thanks!

That’s the one! Thanks, Jonthan, I really appreciate your fast and friendly help. =)

Hi Jonathan,

It’s a list of posts.

M

Brilliant, thanks!

Thanks, Paul. That’s really brilliant.

Thanks, Paul! That’s basically what I have been doing. I wondered if there was a way to make a more global change in the child theme but doing it the way you suggest isn’t taking me too long. Thanks so much for the quick reply.

Hi there! I’m having a similar issue and I’m just wondering how you resolved this. (unfortunately, I can’t post a link to my site because I’m building my site on my local computer)

“The functions.php is pulling in several Google fonts which can be set within the theme’s setting in the WordPress admin panel.”

Exactly – I’d like to use a font that is not one of the choices in the back end. Because functions.php is pulling in the settings after the style sheets load, it’s coming in as an inline setting, so the Abel font is superceding the changes I’ve made in styles.css of the childtheme. I could individually style all elements with the correct font, I just wondered if there was a way to more generally override the Abel font.

Hi guys! I’m hoping to do the same thing. I was just wondering, once you remove the left sidebar and having the main content spread out to fill the space:

– have you managed to get the theme to automatically size new thumbnails to the right size?
– what have you done in the CSS to get the ‘category’ and ‘read me’ labels to be in the right position again?

Thanks for your help.

Resolved =)

I hadn’t realised. Thanks for the quick and helpful reply.