Julian Fox (greataussiepie)

Sorry about that, i’ll be sure to go to the support forums first next time. didnt mean to sound negative in my review.

This plugin is literally the best plugin for making BuddyPress into a private community. Thanks for the link to your other plugin i’ll go and test that out now ??

Updated: I just realised that i only gave this plugin 2 stars. what can i say, i’m an airhead, i wouldn’t title this almost perfect (to be almost perfect is pretty good in my view) and then only give it 2 stars, i wish i could change it.

I forgot to mention, please make a backup of your .htaccess file as well.

in worst scenario WordPress can rewrite a new .htaccess, but you need to be able to use the dashboard.

That pesky .htaccess file can sometimes block me out of my site, when this happens i temporarily rename it to ‘old.htaccess’ or something to just test and see if my .htaccess file is causing problems. then getting WordPress to do a rewrite if something seems off. It would be awesome if your problem was this easy to solve, heres hoping.

No problem, any time.

not sure about the disappearing files, that is curious.

Good Luck, let us know how it all goes ??

the pages and blogs with text is most certainly located in the MySQL database, there are no hidden files.

When you are looking at your database, everything related to WordPress should have the prefix wp_ on it.

so that we are on the same page: when you first login to phpmyadmin you should see on the left hand side a column with a list of all your databases, your database can be named anything, when you click on the database that WordPress is in, it should populate the screen with tables, all of these tables will be prefixed with wp_ for example one of the most important tables is wp_users.

Your third party forum software probably has its own databse, but in the unlikely event of it sharing a database with WordPress, the forum software would have a different prefix (perhaps no prefix). But WordPress always has a prefix.

to answer your follow up questions:

1) Yes, so long as you are certain you have backed up all important images, uploads, and other media you want to save. (you said you did do this so thats good)

2) Yes paste over the wp-content folder with your backed up version of wp-content. The database needs to be imported via phpmyadmin, perhaps it would be a good idea to create a new database to test this on before overwriting anything in your current database (unless you are certain you have backups of everything).

Yes you are correct about the wp-config file but also remember to set the DB name, DB username, DB password AND DB host (usually localhost) and don’t forget to set the WordPress DB prefix which is just slightly further down in the wp-config file.

Updated: You are most welcome, happy to help, let us know how you go.

It sounds like to me that Fantastico wants you to create the database, if you have not created a database before running fantastico perhaps this could be the problem, some hosts script installers (like fantastico) have given me grief and this was the problem.

If this is a brand new WordPress install, i would delete the database and delete the WordPress files and start over. I prefer to do installs manually as I can be sure each step was done correctly. I like to have phpmyadmin and FileZilla running so i can make sure its done properly.

Some handy tips to troubleshoot your current database:

1. try installing WordPress again into the same database under a different prefix. It is possible to install two WordPress installations using the same database. By changing the database prefix you can have two WordPress’s using the same database with the same username and password. perhaps you could do a fresh install and change the database prefix from ‘wp_’ to ‘wp_test_’ and this would create new tables.

2. logging in to your database dashboard and physically looking at your tables to see if wp_users: Table ‘damienr_wrdp6.wp_users’ really does or doesn’t exist might lead to another clue.

This is a curious problem Gloak because the tab on the theme page links to theme-install.php and the add new theme icon you mention links to the exact same url.

I wonder if you check to see if the problem still persists will it occur again? for curiosity’s sake it it would be interesting to know ??

Hi Zamboni,

is this a completely unmodified version of WordPress or have you inserted or changed any code anywhere?

FYI: After reading esmi’s link to the codex, it says a wp_redirect() function may be causing this issue as well, im no coder but the codex says to use javascript redirection to see if that fix’s it, i have noticed some plugins offer this option, but since this is a fresh install of WordPress this cant be your problem.

This totally sounds like it has to be a .htaccess problem because thats where permalink settings come from, logic would dictate that the problem would be there since it is a problem with permalinks.

Try searching for ‘4-2’ in your .htaccess file, that might lead to another clue.

Sorry i can’t be of more help, hopfully a more experienced WordPresser sees this forum, its a head scratcher thats for sure.

Hi Coolcash,

May I ask how long ago it is you had the website migrated?

It would seem that you have a page named 4-2 and it is the parent of every other page. This may go unnoticed unless you know there is no page named 4-2.

Another thought that comes to mind is that the permalinks settings page is having no effect because WordPress cannot write to .htaccess, scroll down the bottom of the permalinks settings page and if there is a problem a notice will be displayed at the bottom with instructions on how to update the .htaccess file.

Strange problem, only other thing i can think of is delete .htaccess file and have WordPress rewrite one by change a setting on the permalinks settings page and then back again (this action prompts htaccess to rewrite itself)

I had an issue with WordPress not being able to write to .htaccess recently and i had to manually change permissions using an FTP client.

Hi Juniorking,

Can you let us know if you are able to access phpmyadmin (at the hosting website), the dashboard used to manage your database?

First of all, it sounds like your database is ok, and that somehow the WordPress files have become corrupt, this is not so bad. If for instance your database had become corrupt or the wp-config file had become corrupt, WordPress would return an error saying Cannot connect to database, or your WordPress theme would load but no content would be there.

Let me talk a little bit about the most important steps of a backup and why. and if this sounds like it could help please dont hesitate to ask more questions ??

The two most important things that you need in order to restore your WordPress website is the ‘uploads’ folder (this is inside wp-content), the uploads folder holds all your media, images and other things that may be attached to your posts and pages. So saving this folder is important so its easy to find all the images that your website needs, including logos and icons in some cases.

The second, but equally if not more important thing that you need in order to restore a WordPress website is the database. The database holds the text that makes up all the posts and pages. The database also stores the settings for WordPress, plugins and themes. if nothing else, you must save a backup of your database. you can always download your theme and plugins again, but there is only 1 copy of your database. (use a backup plugin to avoid this problem)

with a backup of your database all you need to do is install a fresh copy of WordPress, any plugins you previously had and the theme you were using. then restore your database and all your previous settings, pages and posts, tags, categories, everything will be restored.

It is important to note that the files you see via FTP do not contain the text content of your website. for instance when you write an article the text for that article is stored in the database not in the WordPress files/folder. Settings that you apply to plugins and WordPress will also be in your database, not in the WordPress files. all the files and folders with the exception of the uploads folder mentioned above are expandable and in most cases can be replaced by downloading them from their original source, however to save any modifications to WordPress or themes it is always good practice to backup everything.

Good Luck, let us know if u need anymore help ??

Julian

I have discovered that using the Groups 404 redirect plugin causes the page restriction to work and it redirects users who are not assigned to a group/capability or are logged out when they try to visit a page nominated to BuddyPress.

a message to developers: I need BuddyPress to be a private member community and i am using BuddyPress, WooCommerce, Groups + Groups Extension, Subscriptions and Groups 404 redirect.

I am not sure if the issue i mentioned in this thread is intentional or unintentional but please don’t take away the ability to restrict access to buddypress pages using the Groups plugin and other plugins mentioned above, thanks.

Ok cool, thanks for letting us know Kurt, will submit feedback when i try this out ??

This plugin is only compatible up to 3.5, if you are using 3.9 (the latest version of WordPress) it is probably not a good idea to use this plugin as per the WordPress guidelines.

P3 (Plugin Performance Profiler)
Requires: 3.3 or higher
Compatible up to: 3.5.2
Last Updated: 2012-12-6

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I feel a bit silly, but i had ‘Remove file writing permissions’ checked under ‘File Writing Permissions’ – This is funnily sort of in conflict with the Global settings ‘Allow iThemes Security to write to wp-config.php and .htaccess.’

im not sure how iThemes would go about fixing that, not super important but it is a minor conflict bug, maybe by adding a little info box that pops up when it is checked warning it may cause the permissions to change unexpectedly, because i thought wordpress would still be able to re-write .htaccess but remove file writing permissions stops anyone and everything. i fixed my issue by unchecking ‘Remove file writing permissions’ – hopefully this isnt a security issue because this particular setting only applies to logged in users.