Unable to change site/wordpress url

  • Please help! I need to change both my wordpress and site address url! However, when I go to Settings > General to change these the text in these boxes is faded- it will not let me put my curser in/delete/change anything. I know what I need to do after I make these changes, but I can’t make these changes in the first place!!!

    How do I get it to let me make these changes/not have faded text?

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  • Thread Starter Mrs Purrie

    (@mrs-purrie)

    I might add that I have TWO different wordpress blogs. I checked the other one (the one I DON’T need to make any changes to) and it’s working- I could change the site address/url if I wanted. :::sigh:::

    See Changing_The_Site_URL for details of how to do this correctly.

    Thread Starter Mrs Purrie

    (@mrs-purrie)

    Thanks. Unfortunately I am NOT computer tech savvy at ALL and I’ve read that article and just have a giant headache at the end. I don’t even know how to find the ‘wp-config.php’ file! I’ve logged into both my wordpress control panel and my host Cpanel and I have no clue where it is. I need these steps dumbed down as if you’re talking to a first grader- lol. Please!

    Thread Starter Mrs Purrie

    (@mrs-purrie)

    Okay- I logged into FTP via Cyberduck and did find the wp-config.php file, I opened it, and I deleted the define(‘WP_SITEURL’, and also define(‘WP_HOME’, like I read. I saved the changes and all it did was break my site! When I tried to enter in my website url it took me to a blank white page that said ‘Parse error: syntax error,’ unexpected ‘)’ in ‘home/allis/public_html/myblog/wp-config.php on line 3’

    So I went back and added the things I deleted and know my site works again, but my problem is not solved. I’m at a loss!

    Thread Starter Mrs Purrie

    (@mrs-purrie)

    Also (sorry to post again,) I need the site url and blog url fields (under general > settings in the wordpress dashboard) to be ungreyed out. Isn’t there anything I can do to simply get these two fields to be editable again?

    Thread Starter Mrs Purrie

    (@mrs-purrie)

    Last post I swear because I’m going to bed. Okay. So I tried deleting define(‘WP_SITEURL’, and also define(‘WP_HOME’, again, only this time I deleted the entire lines (which included my site url.) It worked!!! The wordpress and site url areas within my wordpress dashboard were no longer gray and I could edit them!

    However. While the face of my website worked, when I clicked on any of the menu items they took me to weird spam looking pages.

    Ugh!

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/site-urls-area-grayed-outuneditable?replies=3

    Please do not post duplicate topics.

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