working with WordPress

Just like a link is a link is a link, an installation is an installation…and you actually have two “installations” inside your public_html folder. One is an installation of WordPress, and the other is your HTML work. So yes, you can delete that WordPress installation and lose nothing *after* you have *first* made certain your HTML work is not in any way dependent upon it…and there is where I had to step aside in our previous discussion since I do not know how to deal with the pointing at your BlueHost CP and whatever else you might have in .htaccess inside public_html that might need some editing.

If I do take WordPress [out of public_html], can I then [re-point my] main domain [to it] sometime in the future should I want to for some reason??

Yes, and that would be done by simply re-installing WordPress there and reversing what I have just mentioned about your previous changes at your BlueHost CP and possibly in .htaccess when you first switched from WordPress to HTML.

Understood! Thank you so much.

After you are certain all things are as you need them in order to safely delete that WorPress installation, keep in mind that you will have an abandoned database at your BlueHost CP.

Thanks Lee,
I did go thru my BlueHost account and “uninstalled” WordPress from my main domain. Then I pulled up my domain off the internet and it is running fine.

I then pulled up FileZilla and discovered everything connected to that main domain that had an “wp” next to it was gone.

Looks like all is well. ??

I also changed the FTP setup to the SFTP setup within that FileZilla program. ??

My question to you, Lee, is: What do you mean I will have an abandoned database at my BlueHost CP? It is my understanding that WP database was all taken off when I uninstalled WP. As it was uninstalling, I saw where it was “removing files”; and the wp-folders that had once been showing in FileZilla for that domain are now gone. So what data base are you talking about?

Filezilla cannot delete databases. You have to do that via your hosting control panel.

Filezilla cannot delete databases. You have to do that via your hosting control panel.

Exactly. After I had finished all of my own moving and deleting or whatever such as you have just done, I happened to notice I had four WordPress databases even though I only have three WordPress sites. This is no big deal and you have nothing to be greatly concerned about here, but some future confusion could come up whenever you or someone else might go to your BlueHost cPanel > Database Tools > MySQL Databases and wonder why you have more WordPress databases than you have WordPress sites. Based upon my own experience, I would guess the first one in the list is the one you no longer need…and I confirmed that for myself while on the phone with a BlueHost Support Tech *before* pressing its nuke button.

Well this is rather confusing. In my above post I did say I had “uninstalled” WordPress from my BlueHost account; that it told me all wp files were being removed and then told me the uninstall was complete.

I did not…not…uninstall (nor delete any wp folders/files) via FileZilla. I don’t know how you both thought I had. Guess my wording was not as clear as I thought it was.

I will run over to the BlueHost cPanel > database tools ? MySQL databases and see if I can better understand what you are saying Lee.

My guess is that the automatic uninstaller or whatever did not work since your domain name is pointed to your HTML work rather than at WordPress. So, you will likely need to delete the WordPress files manually *after* being sure of what I have been saying about not doing that until you are certain of the pointing presently being done at your BlueHost cPanel and in the .htaccess file inside your public_html folder. And again, the matter of the database is no big deal and something you can deal with later on.

Well, I went to my BlueHost cPanel > database tools > My SQL databases and found five (5) databases. Thus, believing these were talking about “WordPress” data bases, your assessment that the uninstall I did of WordPress did NOT delete the “WordPress” data base for that motdaugrnds.com (main) domain.

The data bases showing were:
motdaugr – wor1
motdaugr – wor3
motdaugr – wor4
motdaugr – wor5
motdaugr – wor6

wor2 was missing and there were no names to identify them as being for my main domain nor any of the 4 sub-domains. Figuring the top one (wor1) was for my main domain, I deleted the data base for that one, getting the message it had been deleted.

Then when I went to pull up my motdaugrnds.com on the internet, it still works fine.

Thanks for letting me know about this.

Figuring the top one (wor1) was for my main domain, I deleted the data base for that one, getting the message it had been deleted.

Then when I went to pull up my motdaugrnds.com on the internet, it still works fine.

Yes, and while not wanting to be an alarmist here , “figuring” (guessing, no matter how logically) still would never have been enough for me…

…and you can verify that each of your remaining WordPress installations still has a database by giving each of those sites a try.

Well, I must admit as soon as I deleted it, I was immediately alarmed because I had not checked to make sure it was the correct one. (I’ll not be so impetuous again!)

All of my domains worked fine except for the “inspirations” one. By this I mean I could get them to come up on the net simply by using their individual URLs and I could get the WordPress login to come up for each of the sub-domains except for the inspirations one. So I called BlueHost and one of their very patient and courteous people checked it out for me, discovering that, when it was created, an index file was inadvertently left out. So he fixed it for me and made sure the WordPress was doing well. (He actually winded up having to re-create that sub-domain and reinstall WordPress, giving me a WP password easier to remember.) So all is working well now.

During my Sabbath hours I’m going to see what I can do with WordPress in that inspirations sub-domain. It is the one that holds the spiritual components of our homestead; so it will be fun to play with during these special hours tonight.

Thanks Lee

During my Sabbath hours…the spiritual components of our homestead…

I will be checking that out!

Shabbat Shalom