Starting Over

  • Resolved Larph

    (@larph)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    I am an absolute novice, so excuse my questions/comments. I’m having problems with a hosted WordPress installation. Windows 7, WordPress 4.3.1, Siteorigin plugins.

    I’ve solved a few start up issues, but would like to wipe everything clean and start over. What do I need to leave behind (pages, plugins, themes, etc?

    At times WordPress seems to stall when I hit UPDATE, Edits show up in HISTORY but not the “real” pages, I get server error 500 after edits, etc. These problems do not seem theme specific and I’ve deactivated plugins without results.

    So, how do I get back to an absolutely clean slate?

    Thanks in advance for any help.

    Ralph

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  • Hello,

    It’s hard to help with a little more insight on WP version, theme and plugins used but, I would advise you to use a backup solution or so, like to synchronize with your WordPress folder maybe every 1/2 hours so that you have handy backups at all times – but not too recent if you made mistakes.

    Many cloud solutions can do that for free with windows clients (Dropbox, Mega.nz, Hubic so on..) while you set up them to synchronize for the WordPress folder.

    After, coming back after errors mostly involves database, so I can only advize you to make periodic backups of your mysql or other db locally. Because many plugins do use it.

    Does it help you?

    Bummer.

    I’d basically just rename the WordPress folder (maybe add “_old” to the folder name) and do a fresh install in its stead with a new database.

    Did you say that you were running locally or with web host? If you’re using a web host, you should be able to install using a script provided by your web host. That’ll set the database up automatically and get you rolling right away.

    Your old WordPress database would stay in SQL until you decide to delete it. If you do it this way, you’d be able to go back to your old site by removing or renaming the new install and taking of the “_old” from the folder name.

    Thread Starter Larph

    (@larph)

    Thank you very much, Tyler and Digico.

    I’ll work on this using both of your suggestions after I sleep on this.

    I wasn’t counting on quite so many issues right from the beginning, but I’m learning a lot. Other suggestions/comments welcome.

    Thanks again —

    Ralph

    Thanks for answer,

    WordPress can seem a bit hard at first, but it’s really a good CMS for many purposes. If you have time to learn a little php/mysql, it’s just the best solution.

    Good sleep,

    Larph, it’s the best way to learn :). I can’t remember how many WordPress installs I wiped, especially when I first started. It gets harder before it gets easier, but it’s a valuable skill set to have. Digico Paris is right, I learned a lot about PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS, ect (I started knowing absolutely no PHP or SQL by the way) just by messing around with, and occasionally breaking, WordPress. The beauty of it is is that you won’t need to teach your clients what you know, the typical user experience is pretty dang simple.

    And it’s a very marketable skill to have, putting it modestly:
    https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management/all

    Glad to see you here,
    -Tyler

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