Carme Mias

Hi there,

The DB_Name and Co. are only needed during the WordPress installation process and the system adds them to wp_config for you, so you don’t need to edit wp_config yourself.

It is not clear from your message whether you need the database name for your localhost (WAMP) or for the other website setup by your friend.

If it is the website already setup, you don’t normally need to change wp_config if WordPress is already installed.

If it is for your localhost, you will probably need to create the MySQL database before running the installation. WAMP should give you the information you need to connect to your local MySQL server. If it helps, I have used MAMP in the past (the Mac version of WAMP) and this is the info it provides (it will be something similar for WAMP):

`Host localhost
Port 3306
User root
Password root
Socket /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock`

You will need to enter those settings to connect to the MySQL server. You can use PHPmyAdmin or a similar tool for that.

Hope this helps.

Hi there,

Don’t worry, we all do things like that when we are learning.

It sounds like you are redirecting your site to the other domain. Did you make the changes from your hosting Control Panel? If so, try changing it back to what it was. It may take a while for the changes to propagate but it should be OK.

Hello,

I think we would need a bit more information in order to help as there could be a number of reasons for this to happen.

Do you get any messages when you visit the url https://mysite.com/wp-json/wp/v2/pages in the browser?

If it’s a new website, is there a chance that perhaps no pages have been created yet?

If the website is live, it would also be useful if you could let us know its URL so that we can try to recreate the problem from our end.

Thanks.

Hi there,

The migration of a domain name takes at least 24 hours as it needs to propagate. So the problem may have been that the installation of WordPress was started before this propagation had finished.

If that is the case, I’d try again. It will probably be OK now.

You can probably run the WordPress installation from your host’s control panel and, after that, try to import the data from your previous wordpress.com website.

Hi there,

Yes and no.

You can do that with a new installation of WordPress into https://www.sitename.com/secondsite and then importing the data from your localhost.

You could also turn the current site into a multisite but I think your second site would have to be a subdomain (like https://secondsite.sitename.com) instead of a subfolder (like https://www.sitename.com/secondsite) because it would be a conversion to multisite rather than a fresh multisite install.

But, for both options you would need to have access to the hosting space and database (via FTP and PHPMyAdmin, for example, or the Control Panel) in order to do the installation or conversion.

Hi there,

It sounds like the hosting server does not have the minimum requirements for WordPress to work.

The minimum requirements for WordPress are PHP 5.2.4+ and MySQL 5.0+, although the preferred versions are PHP 7.2 and MySQL 5.6.

You can find out more about it here: https://www.ads-software.com/about/requirements/

It also includes the text for an email request you can send to your hosting provider.

It looks like they may be being hidden by the Theme. Perhaps those settings are accessible from elsewhere in the Theme?

Hello @kappapride,

I’ve had a look at your page and the problem seems to only happen for some posts, not all of them. The posts with the wrong excerpt don’t necessarily the share the same category.

And the excerpt shown by all of them seems to be that of the most recent post within that group of “problematic” posts.

It is difficult to see excatly what the cause may be without looking at the code but it looks like the page may run more than one query and perhaps

wp_reset_postdata();

is missing from one of them.

You can read more about it here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Class_Reference/WP_Query

If the problem persists when the theme is changed, I would look if the issue is caused by a plugin.

Hello @halinh,

You can hide it from “Customizer” > “Additional CSS” by adding this:

.post-navigation {
    display: none;
}

If you wanted to change the name, you’d need to create a Child Theme and make the change in the corresponding template file.

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Hello @ismaelita,

Normally WordPress asks for images to be cropped when they are for a header, but that does not happen for the images inserted in the page or post content.

I have had a look at your website and the homepage header image seems to have been cropped.

Could send a link to page or post where the problem occurs, please? Thanks.

Dah! I had obviously forgotten to put my thinking cap on this morning.

Thank you so much for looking into it @rollingwolf !

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The live system is here: https://chiaraberardelli.com/