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Sounds like your site could be stuck in a login loop? Perhaps this link can help? https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/website-down-and-cant-login-through-admin?replies=2

To share with others outside of your computers local network then yes it will need to be put online. My suggestion is to create a subdomain so the url/path could be something like: https://dev.yoursite.com and make sure that the reading settings found via https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php have the searchable by search engines (Google, Yahoo etc) unchecked to add some sort of privacy.

Now you have a live online development site that you can work on as well.

All about moving your wordpress install: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_to_a_New_Server

Hope that helps ??

Sometimes certain settings for things…. hide like ninja!

Make sure after getting into the dashboard of your site that you check out the JetPack settings for the wordpress.com like button which are found in sharing settings. The path could look like this: https://yoursite.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=sharing#likes

Go there to make the like button work. Hope that helps. ??

I personally use this on a lot of the new sites I have been developing. I use Ultimate TinyMCE as well as the widget one. Hearing this got me excited!

Oh those are pretty cool improvements. ??

Ah okay. I know a lot of themes usually have an option for it. So that is good to know. ??

Okay I went ahead and meddled with it and made a template. So if anyone is looking this is how I did it.

Created a file called noside.php

<?php
/*
Template Name: noside
*/

get_header(); ?>

<div id="primarynoside" class="content-area">
	<div id="content" class="site-content" role="main">

		<?php while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>

			<?php get_template_part( 'content', 'page-noside' ); ?>

			<?php if ( comments_open() || '0' != get_comments_number() ) : ?>
				<div id="single-comments-wrapper">
					<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>
				</div><!-- #single-comments-wrapper -->
			<?php endif; ?>

		<?php endwhile; // end of the loop. ?>

	</div><!-- #content .site-content -->
</div><!-- #primary .content-area -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Then made this change to the style.css file.

#primarynoside {
	width: 100%;

	-ms-box-sizing: border-box;
	-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
	-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
	box-sizing: border-box;
	float: left;
	padding-right: 35px;
}

So far I see no issues. Just thought I would show an example. ??

There shouldn’t be a problem with doing that as long as the folder is inside the folder where your WordPress files are. I’ve used this plugin: https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/media-file-manager/ to create directories like what you are saying within my uploads folder. There are other plugins that can create subfolders.

Yeah I ended up having to just take whatever text/audio/video I could find that I wanted to keep for content and leave all the coding behind with my old site.

Good luck with the conversion. It might be that your going to have to hand move everything. Moving from something like Frontpage to WordPress I did soooo many years ago with my own site ( https://www.casketcrew.com ) and it was a BEAST! I had to copy & paste everything from pages, to the news posts and dive into the editor and look at code till my eyeballs spun in their sockets (okay it just FELT that way)!

If your super tech savvy then I would build a dev site on your own computer and try to blow things up that way. ?? It’s so much more fun. And that is how I learn things, blow em up then figure out how to fix it. Hmmmm maybe I should’ve been a mad scientist!

Or you could just build a new one and learn as you go. Take some of the images from the old and build up. And if you really want to 301 redirects aren’t a bad idea if you’re super worried about SEO.

Thanks esmi…that is kinda scary!

Might have some URL settings in your database that need adjusting.

Is it just the normal wordpress settings or is it the settings of the theme you are trying to work with. I don’t think a theme would mess with the backend too much other then it’s own settings…I could be wrong though.

Yeah that would be great! I loved this player back in the day!