jilly123

@alpacawp @talldanwp Thank you so much for your help, I backed everything up and went into the function.php file and pasted in the following:
remove_theme_support( ‘widgets-block-editor’ );
as shown in the GitHub link and it WORKED – thank you thank you thank you.

Will I have to do anything else to that file now?

Regards

@talldanwp Thanks for your reply, I opened the console and this is what I found:

https://snipboard.io/8jy9IK.jpg

Not sure if that helps (it means nothing to me with my limited knowledge)!

It does mention the Uncaught ReferenceError as mentioned in @alpacawp reply (thank you) I looked at the link in that reply and it scared me!!

Oh this is so frustrating – there’s so much to learn, I think I’ve blown up my brain ??

Any ‘dummies’ advice would be appreciated.

Thank you
Regards

Hi @3sonsdevelopment

Thank you so much for your help, I really appreciate it.
I think I may be on this forum quite a lot!!

Regards
Jilly

Hi @3sonsdevelopment

Thank you so much for your reply.

As I said in my original post I’m not very technically minded, I was ‘messing around’ with my site last night and completely ‘buggered it up’ oops!.
Here’s what happened:
I installed Better Search Replace plugin and inserted the info as shown in this screenshot
https://snipboard.io/3x1nWw.jpg
Oh dear – I broke my staging site – this screenshot shows what happened
https://snipboard.io/Xs9mfG.jpg
It changed the URL to staging.staging.inspirationalartworkonline.com.au
Clearly I didn’t do it correctly.
After this I couldn’t get into into my WP admin area, so I deleted my staging sub domain and related database then made a new sub domain and database etc (same name as old one) and reinstalled the information using Duplicator plugin.

I have no idea why or how but the staging site seems to be working now, so I must have done something wrong when I migrated with duplicator last time – who knows?? – clearly I don’t!

If you have any suggestions as to what I might have done wrong (from my screenshots) when I used the Better Search Replace plugin, that would be helpful for future reference. If not that’s fine.

Thank you once again for your help – it really is appreciated.

Such a lot to learn – so little time! ??

Regards
Jilly`

Hi @sukafia

Thanks again for your advice, as I said in my original post I’m not very technically minded.
Here’s what happened:
I installed Better Search Replace plugin and inserted the info as shown in this screenshot
https://snipboard.io/3x1nWw.jpg
Oh dear – I broke my staging site – this screenshot shows what happened
https://snipboard.io/Xs9mfG.jpg
It changed the URL to staging.staging.inspirationalartworkonline.com.au
Clearly I didn’t do it correctly.
After this I couldn’t get into into my WP admin area, so I deleted my staging sub domain and related database then made a new sub domain and database etc (same name as old one) and reinstalled the information using Duplicator plugin.

I have no idea why or how but the staging site seems to be working now, so I must have done something wrong when I migrated with duplicator last time – who knows??

If you have any suggestions as to what I might have done wrong (from my screenshots) when I used the Better Search Replace plugin, that would be helpful for future reference. If not that’s fine.

Thank you once again for your help – it really is appreciated.

Regards
Jilly

Hi @sukafia

Thank you so much for your help, I will add the plugin and try that in the morning (bedtime here in Australia)!
I will report back as soon as I can.

Thanks again
Regards
Jilly

Hi Alan,

Thank you for your ‘quick’ very helpful reply.

I was concerned about spending lots of time setting up a news site only for it to crash or not work when I uploaded to hosting account. Your reply was reassuring.

I have changed the PHP settings as the advice in your link.

Thank you
Jilly