• Hi. I am having terrible problems in my blog. By mistake, I change the blogs url and had some trouble, getting the blog in its old form.
    I first try all the tricks and instructions you find here at www.ads-software.com, but they happen to not work for me. After several intents to solve the problem I manage to modify the URL of the blog in the DATABASE using php my Admin. With this made, the blog start from showing a 404 error to a 500 serve error.
    Second I erase all files from the blog except the content ones, and replace them with new ones that I downloaded from the www.ads-software.com. The blog start to show up, everything is broken. This is how the blog looks like https://www.lizbasanez.com/blogpress
    I can’t login to the control panel of WordPress and everything is like broken, I don’t know very much about blogging, I am a newbie. Can someone please help me? I have more than 120 old posts very important to me and don’t want to start all over again.

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  • Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    This should be easy for you to fix for yourself – you can put the blog address back to how it was using one of the methods on this page -> https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL.

    Thread Starter pacolactico

    (@pacolactico)

    Hi.
    I already change the url back. The problem is that I can’t log in the control panel and The blog now is very weird. The blog is looking like this https://www.lizbasanez.com/blogpress

    can you help me please. I am very stress now and starting to think to start everything allover again.

    I have a theme from woo themes and it looks like the theme is not loading or something. Its really a mess.

    Moderator cubecolour

    (@numeeja)

    Did you buy your theme from woothemes or did you download it for free from somewhere dodgy? if the latter read this.

    It is strange that your stylesheet path is https://lizbasanez/blogpress/wp-content/themes/headlines/headlines/style.css

    I don’t think the nested ‘headlines’ directory is causing your problem, but it doesn’t look right to me. Maybe its a woo thing? I don’t know I’ve never used their themes. I expect their support forum will be able to tell you whether that is normal – access to that will be available to you as a theme purchaser if you bought the theme.

    What are your “Home” and “Site URL” settings currently? – also labeled as “WordPress address (URL)” and “Site address (URL)”

    Your site url looks to me to be set to https://lizbasanez – with no top level domain – that is obviously wrong.

    You need to follow the instructions in the link I gave you. There are several alternative methods. Try the relocate method

    1. Edit the wp-config.php file.

    2. After the “define” statements, add this new one:

    define(‘RELOCATE’,true);

    3. Go to the wp-login.php page in a web browser.

    4. Login as per normal.

    When the RELOCATE flag is set to true, the Site URL (NOT the home setting) will be automatically updated to whatever path you are using to access the login screen. This will get the admin section up and running on the new URL, but it will not correct any other part of the setup. Those you will still need to alter manually.

    You should remove the additional line after the site is up and running. Do NOT leave it enabled.

    If that doesn’t work for you, try the edit wp-config.php method

    Add these two lines to your wp-config.php, where “example.com” is the correct location of your site.

    define(‘WP_HOME’,’https://example.com’);
    define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’https://example.com’);

    This is not necessarily the best fix, it’s just hardcoding the values into the site itself. You won’t be able to edit them on the General settings page anymore when using this method.

    If that doesn’t work for you – post just the two lines you added.

    Thread Starter pacolactico

    (@pacolactico)

    Hi. The relocate method worked fine. Thanks, you save me big time. The Database updated, and everything start working as normal, the problem as you mention above was the WordPress address (www.lizbasanez.com/blogpress) was different from the site address(www.lizbasanes/blogpress). I correct the site address and everything worked fine from there. Thanks for your help. I was really thinking to start everything all over again.

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