joshpe

WPI doesn’t do anything except install WordPress and its prerequisites. After that you have full control. If you are doing this at your university and you can’t use the devices over wifi and lan, its most likely because the school network doesn’t allow it. That is something you will want to bring up with your teacher.

This is quoted from the BackWPup plugin:
“How do I restore a backup?
Up to now, there is no feature in BackWPup to restore a backup. You can follow these instructions from the WordPress Codex or this tutorial (also Codex) for more detailed information on cPanel, Plesk, vDeck and others.”

As far as your current server software goes. You are not using apache or wamp, you are using Microsoft’s IIS. It is only as limited as your environment when it comes to the features we’ve been talking about. When you visit your website if the URL is https://localhost then you will need to change it to your IP address like in this picture of my test site. Here is another tutorial on another way to do this.

I take it you are able to access the site on mobile devices now?

It depends how you backed it up. If you exported the content of the site like I mentioned in the tutorial above, then you just should be able to import the content with the button right next to the export button. It will have exported everything that was specified in the export list. But you’ll need to manually restore things like themes and plugins.

What method or methods did you use to backup your previous site?

It looks like Desktop Server Limited is what’s causing your issue then. One of the Premium features not included in the Limited edition is “LAN Sharing for Mobile Device Testing”.

It looks like its an easy solution if you are making several websites or you make them regularly, but do you really need this tool?

I would suggest using different server software. It might not be as easy to setup initially, but you won’t have the same limitations as with this tool.

First backup everything you’ve done so far and prepare to migrate all your work to a new wordpress installation. Here is a backup tutorial

If you are looking for something that is an all-in-one deal, then I would suggest Microsoft’s WPI installer. When you open it up go to the Applications tab and select wordpress. When you click install it will not only install wordpress but everything else that is required for it to run. Here is a full tutorial on installing wordpress with this method.

I would suggest completely removing Desktop Server Limited, but make sure you not only backup, but you also export the content of your current site before you do. That way you can import it later on.

This is over wifi on the local network?

Is something like this what you’re looking for?

It looks pretty old but all the other similar plugins that I found are much older.

It is possible that the smartphones are using the data connection provided by the cellular towers. You could troubleshoot by disabling mobile data on those devices, but considering that the same is happening with(what I’m guessing) are non cellular tablets, its probably not the issue.

I noticed you’ve specifically stated that computers connect via LAN cables. Do you have any laptops that access the network via WiFi? You should test that.

Lets assume that they cannot. That would most likely mean that your wlan and LAN networks are segregated. This is done for places where the wired network is guaranteed secure, but WiFi is not. It would be the case if guests were allowed on the WiFi but confidential information is being transmitted over the LAN. Information that it can’t be risked to transmit over WiFi.

Or it might simply be on a different network range. What I mean by this is that all LAN devices may have an IP address of 192.168.1.1-255 and all WiFi devices have an IP of 192.168.0.1-255. Notice the 0 and 1, they are the critical difference.

Check the IP addresses of the LAN computers and the WiFi devices and see if you notice a difference like this. But be aware that even if they are in the same network range that the router may still be segregating WiFi and LAN for security reasons.

Let me know what you find.

Actually it might be easier that I realized.

Go to: dashboard->woocommerce->settings->customer note

Once there check the setting labeled “email type” and change it to HTML if it isn’t already. Here is a picture of my screen.

I’m hoping for simplicity’s sake that you just have the setting on “plain text” instead of HTML.

I tried it out on my end (by copy and pasting your example) and I think its working for me without issue. Please confirm that this is the section you are referring too Its in the dashboard->woocommerce->orders->edit order(or view)

This is the result I got in an email.

I feel that I must either be looking in the wrong place, which seems unlikely because I can’t find anything else similar to your description, or you have some kind of bug or outdated version.

If I am looking in the right place here are my versions:
Woocommerce Version 2.4.10
Wordpress Version 4.3.1

Can you give me a literal example of the input and output in one of these situation? If HTML isn’t supported in that field (which some online posts as of a year ago say it isn’t) then I would figured that the HTML would come out in the note just as you typed it. But the fact that it comes out differently means that something is happening.

The main reason I want to see examples is so I can know if it is user error or program error, and the output might also shed some light on what kind of error it is.

I’m not well versed in WAMP, but did you check the folder permissions also? Though I would suspect you would be getting errors in the log if this was the case.

First we need a little more information.
1.Is this a website you are hosting from your personal computer or a web server from home?
2.Do you have a domain name?
3.When you say you want to share over wifi do you mean over the internet or just over the local network?

I’m going to give you some answers based off my assumption of the situation which is: You have a website being built you want other devices to test over the local network. If this is not the case then ignore what I about to say next.

First you’ll want to test if you can access your site without localhost(127.0.0.1), and you do this by using your internal network ip address(e.g. 192.168.1.56). If you can do this then technically any device on the network should be able to also. You just have to go in the browser and type https://192.168.1.56
If your site is in a subfolder such as “test” then you’ll need to use https://192.168.1.56/test/ Do you get what I mean?

Please note that this will not work over the internet or over different subnets(which there might be if you are in an office environment, but probably not at home).

Peter Cralen is correct, but I’ll add a bit to his comment.

Before even worry about your wordpress.com blog, you’ll want to make sure that you have WordPress working at all. Install wordpress on localhost without any of your .com blog. You can do this by following this tutorial for a more custom experience.

Or you can use the microsoft wpi installer to not only install WordPress, but all its prerequisites as well. I consider this the “quick and easy” route. This uses Microsoft’s IIS to host your webpage (the built in http server for windows). I personally think its self explanatory, but here’s a tutorial if you need it.

Once you have all that done and your site looks like the plain old boring WordPress the its time to import the content you exported from your wordpress.com.

Here is a tutorial on how to export wordpress.com content if you havn’t done so already.

And here are two tutorials on how to import the information First Second

I took one last chance with the Enigma theme and edited the theme itself and replaced all the bounceIn code with fadeIn and all it did was make the text slide with the image. I doesn’t look bad, but it doesn’t fade.

I vote for looking for a different theme.

I’ve check around at some other forums and have found some people with the same issue, but no solution.

Can you give an example of your problem? What do you type in and what does it come out as?