lylemcd

Also, I found .htaccess, deleted it, did what I think regenerated the permalinks (.htaccess was recreated).

Still no joy. Admin panel shows the following

* All (236) |
* Published (223) |
* Drafts (13)

Search Posts:

No posts found

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the post data is still on the site (accessible through other means) but admin panel can’t ‘see’ it

thanks for any help
Lyle

Esmi: Tried it, didn’t work. Thank you.

Samboll: Ok, maybe this is part of the issue but I can’t find an .htaccess file in the root directory. I’d note that, from yesterday to today I didn’t change anything on the site so I’m not sure why that file (if it had been there) would have disappeared.

Thanks
Lyle

I tried reinstalling MCE from scratch through wp-includes/js/tinymce but the problem still persists.

As an interim fix I installed the FCKeditor plugin but now I note that my spell checker isn’t working. I also can’t use Viper Video Quicktags with that editor.

I haven’t changed anything else with my setup, can anyone help me to figure out why this is happening and how I can fix it?

thank you
Lyle

Actually, a quick followup

I changed the prefix in the new install (to ‘test’) and it worked (in that it let me run admin.php and set things up). However, none of the data from the old blog was brought over or incorporated into the new build. Or at least it wasn’t accessed with the new blog.

I still can’t find an easy explanation in the docs or codex of how to essentially duplicate all of the data from an old blog database so taht I can then use it to test another site build.

Or, wait, are you saying that I can access the original blog with a different prefix and it will let me use the blog data without changing the information in the other blog? Does that question make sense?

Basically, here’s what I did. My original blog uses a DB called wordpress. I had my host duplicate that DB and call it wordpress2. I installed WP in a new directory and set config php to use wordpress2 with a prefix of test. It let me run install.php but didn’t use any of the old data.

Can I tell the new install to simply use the blog data from wordpress but with the prefix test? Both blogs use teh same post data but different themes and such? I’m not sure I’m making sense.

Thanks for any help you can provide
Lyle

Ok, the problem is that I didn’t change the prefix on the duplicate DB then.

thank you
Lyle

I apologize for piggybacking on this thread but my question is actaully related to it.

I’m trying to redesign my blog and want to simply set up a second duplicate of my current blog so taht I can play with it without affecting the original.

I duplicated the database on my server and reinstalled wordpress, set up the config.php file and tried to run admin.php and it told me that wordpress is already installed.

I had also tried simply duplicating the original WP blog folder and changed config.php to point to the duplicate database but all I ever got was a 404 not found error.

My question is this: is there any way to simply make a duplicate of a blog (including a separate DB) on the same server so taht I can play with one without it affecting the original. I’ve checked the codex and docs and can’t find anything about this.

Thanks
Lyle