icerabbit

Okay, so I figured I would power forward.

I renamed the plugins folder to plugins-old. Then proceeded to FTP delete (or rename to -old) as needed and copied the new wordpress files into place.

Step 9 … run wordpress upgrade. Bit tricky. Got there.

Did that. It said it did it successfully.

Then I had a white page?

Because the provider had me update the DB password …

And then the theme was missing, of course.

So many steps and hoops and detours ??

Anyhow. One site is alive again!

Still have to re-install plugins. And do two more websites. They should go easier. Crossing fingers.

Thank you for your help, James, in pointing me the right way.

If you would, leave this open for another day, in case I have a follow thingy, related to this bugging me. I will signal if it is resolved or can be deleted.

> I have managed to download the files & db.
> I can see my html & css code is fine
> Six common plugins were outdated … no surprise
> Page renders error free locally

… now to update WP on the server ???

I cannot do step 4 = deactivate the plugins on the server.
As I cannot access my admin page on the server.

Hoping somebody can help.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by icerabbit.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by icerabbit.

I am downloading a directory copy via FTP.

One trouble is, right off the bat, it says in STEP 4: de-activate all plugins in the admin panel … which is something I do not have access to?

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by icerabbit.

Thank you for the extended instructions.
I will try to dig in …

Digging into the files through the webhost file manager, the first version reference I see is in a readme . html that says 2.9.2.

Just encountered this problem after updating to the latest version of all in one seo on a wp 2.8.6 install.
Deactivating all plugins didn’t help.
Neither did uninstalling and reinstalling the plugin.

Did you by chance fix this issue?

Looking at v1.2 it says it links back to flickr.

Don’t know about the links yet.

Btw there is a comment section on the developer page also.

I resolved my issue. Sometimes the problem can be with the instructions.

I thought it had to have something to do with the .htaccess file.

In the root I already had a .htaccess file. So when I did step 7, I set the old htaccess aside and copied the one from /blog (which generally would be /wordpress) over to root.

Searching didn’t really yield the answer, so I figured I would compare the two files for any lacking code. Sure enough.

In my case the .htacceess file from inside /blog lacks a first line I had in the root .htaccess:

AddHandler php5-script .php

Which likely is present due to my provider allowing to select php4 or php5 via the hosting control panel.

Once I restored my original .htaccess file (which included the 8 lines of required wordpress code by the way) the preferences permalinks page returned.

Hopefully this will help resolve the problem for somebody with the same issue.

Were you able to find a fix?

I moved my blog’s index.php & .htacess to the site root per instructions of giving wordpress its own folder, at step 10 I now have the blank permalinks page as well. Otherwise things seem normal on the blog & the admin side. Just no permalinks page.

I had the exact three errors with a php file I am trying to link outside of WP, and was able to solve it by using this solution:

Topic 164222

Figured I would update this thread to include that, so others will benefit.

Thanks, Dion / dd32!

Using your example I am able to link to a php file on a sibling folder on the root of the domain.

At least temporarily for testing purposes.
Need to work out a couple other things now ??

Update.

I forgot to add the

<?php
/*
Template Name: custompage
*/
?>

So between switching to default for a few seconds and adding the above to the custom page; I can edit the page and select the custompage from the attributes.

Same issue here.

WP 2.7 upgraded from previous versions.

Created a custom template page.
Created a new page.
WP does not present me with the option to pick a different template.

Switched back to default theme and to the custom one.

Still no option to pick the custom page template.

thanks lpstenu,

Right now I am still on the local machine via https://localhost:8888/wordpress/

Using that, I am (finally) getting a result via:

<img src="https://localhost:8888/wordpress/wp-content/themes/default mod to wphm/images/audio.jpg" alt="" />

While I understand that absolute paths are ideal; I am still hoping to “automate” that home path, so I would not have to redo everything when the site goes live.