Johnb81

Hi Patrick,

Login to your PhpMyAdmin, select the database in question and click on SQL. Enter the below syntax:

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_title = REPLACE(post_title, '>', '');

This should replace all the > characters in the title with no space at all.

P.S. If you have changed the table prefix in WordPress, then instead of wp_posts enter a different table name, such as [newprefix]_posts.

Hope it helps.

Yes it is possible to run WordPress on Windows, as long as the web server running it can run PHP applications. For more information on how to run PHP on IIS 7 refer to https://php.iis.net/.

As NuBlue-Hosting and RichardWPG suggested, typically linux hosting is cheaper than Windows. But if you already have a Windows box and want to run WordPress on it, there should not be any problems. All the procedures to intall and configure are exactly the same.

Hi esmi,

Thank you for the tip. Is there any reason why? Could it be just in case some files are being obsolete between versions?

Hi mdeluk,

Something is definitely not working write. In theory, all you need to do is the following:

1. Download all the WordPress files from your old server and upload them on the new one.

2. Backup the old database and restore it on a new server.

Check the following for a more detailed step by step procedure on how to move WordPress; Moving WordPress.

Hi Helen-kh,

There is no need to delete files first and then upload the new ones. I would recommend you to simply download each version from the Release Archives, extract them and start uploading starting from the oldest to the newest.

There is no need to upload wp-config-sample.php and make sure you never overwrite wp-config.php.

HI Orgeous,

There are several plugins available which help you build a search page on WordPress. Though since the WordPress search seems not to work so well, I would recommend you to use a Google Custom search and then implement it on your blog. There are several WordPress plugins that can help you do this, such as;

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/google-custom-search-for-wordpress/

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/google-custom-search/

HI Suaswe,

Do you have any other plugins running on the same blog? Try disabling them one by one until the issue is solved. You can always enable the plugins again later.

Also, do you have a particular theme that might be rewriting some URL’s?

Here you go; https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

You can do that from your DNS. When you ordered the domain and your hosting, you configured your domain to point to a particular IP, correct?

In that case you have to add a new A Record (Host) and the record should be:

www – ip of where website is hosted.

Welcome. Please mark forum post as resolved if done with this ??

Enjoy WordPress!

Good luck with your new adventure and feel free to post here if any problems arise.

Please mark this ticket as resolved.

It seems to be permissions issues. Basically when you upload something new to WordPress, such as images it tries to create a directory depending on the date. E.g. if you upload an image on May of 2012, in the uploads sub directory WordPress will try to create the following sub directory and store the image there /2012/05.

The Web server process on which you are running WordPress does not have permissions to create such directory. What I would recommend is:

1. Install an FTP server (if this is a test scenario) such as FileZilla.

2. Create a username and password.

3. Using an FTP client, connect to the website and change the permissions to 766 of the /wp-content/uploads/ directory. This should allow the web server process to be able to generate such directories for you.

Alternatively to avoid going through all of the above, simply create the directories yourself but having said that, this is not practical as each month you would have to create new directory.

You can install a new WordPress using Xampp or so on a test machine. Xampp and WordPress are an ideal solution for testing since they run even on the slowest of PC’s.

Start copying your content etc and once you are done with WordPress, all you need to do is copy the WordPress files and Database from the local test server to the live server.

HI Tobbs,

Just for SEO purposes it would be better to remove index.php as it does not make any sense having it in the URL.

There are several plugins available out there. Check out this Mashable article which talks about the top 10 social plugins:

https://mashable.com/2009/06/16/wordpress-social-media-profile/