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Sorry nothing personal but this is wp in a nutshell. Complex, though when you know how to do it easy, poor explanation with overload of info when searching and bad support.

I’m sure there is a good explanation for this issue, and building a theme, out there somewhere. Suggestions?

Hi Nisha,

Thanks but that I know. I need to get the query string parameter /category/… or ?category=…

A side note. I have a custom front-page as root with latest posts. The list of all post is in index.php but I have to use /?s= in order for that page to load. How do I go to index.php without that? Or should I make a custom page?

Forget the width question. Let me ask a more general question:

How do I control this plugin with CSS?

Fixed it with

add_action('get_header', 'wp_head_fix');

function wp_head_fix(){
  //remove top margin
  remove_action('wp_head', '_admin_bar_bump_cb');
}

Working. ??

Was coding in the index file instead of search.php.

Ok, think I understand it now. This is probably an old description. Nowadays most people use their WP as blog and cms.

WP is the site. WP is not a blog tool installed in its own place anymore. This might help someone else. Forget what it says at “Changing The Site URL”. Forget “type in their browser”.

If you installed WP in it’s own directory in your web root but want WP to be your root, be your site, without having to type yourdomain.com/wordpress to reach it. Then follow this.

WordPress address (URL)

You find this field under Options > General.

This is the directory where you installed your WP. The so called core files. Most often …/wordpress. WordPress address is a truthful description. Most often it’s https://yourdomain.com/wordpress

Be aware that if you install WP using a temporary address or url, given to you by your host and used before your domain is pointing to the server, you will have that address in the fields and must change that to the domain name when it works.

Site Address (URL)

You find this field under Options > General.

Now this is what should be called “type in their browser”. This is your “home”. This is what people type in their url address to reach your site. This is your site address. E g https://www.yourdomain.com

Then follow this instruction https://youtu.be/0wO54hYHYF4

An alternative

Often the host will say that your web root, on the server when logged in with ftp, is “www” or “html_public” or similar. When someone type https://www.yourdomain.com they come to that place. That’s web root.

Web root is where you put your WP directory (most often). So you have it in https://www.yourdomain.com/wordpress.

NOW. Sometimes you can also change, on the server settings, that your web root should be “www/wordpress” instead. When connecting a domain to your server it might ask you “ok, where should that domain point to, where is the site’s home, the directory”.

IF you change this so your web root actually is the WP directory, then both fields “WordPress address” and “Site address” should be the same https://www.yourdomain.com

Sorry, but I honestly have no idea what you are talking about.

I thank you for your effort to help but I say the same thing. Read what I said.

Reading it again more carefully made me understand. I didn’t first because I’m so tired of overload info and complexity. WP is to complex. This is my point.

It didn’t die and warned ‘Already Installed’. But I see that it should have. I don’t have the time but maybe is_blog_installed() should be examined for errors.

Welcome to the WordPress support forums. You really should give that link a read.

Thank you for your welcome. But app 14000 characters. I understood this would be a sensitive topic. Not easy to see the forest for the trees. Part of the complexity ??

WordPress doesn’t do that but you may have

Funny, it was WP who did it. Not me.

It’s a little unclear if your at the before or after step.

Not part of the initial question. A different topic. When making a install WP should not be allowed to over-write existing tables without warning.

Don’t bump

I didn’t know about this “rule”. Most of the forums I use don’t have it. And don’t need it. FYI, I didn’t “bump” I added a second thought. I guess you mean I should have edit my first post instead?

Of course we are. Read the docs again. Millions of people have made this move.

You need to read it again. Are you sure that “millions of people” are not lost as I am? Reading it again more carefully made me understand. I didn’t first because I’m so tired of overload info and complexity. WP is to complex. This is my point.

Anyway, this could easily be simplified by letting WP take care of writing and moving. Any problems with permissions would trigger WP to point to this info.

Under “Using a pre-existing subdirectory install” it ask you to move the .htaccess file. Does that relates to my second bump question?

I’m careful in what I do. I had a WP installed that was erased when reinstalling. WP overwrited the existing tables which is a huge no-no without warning.

Can I edit htacccess myself? Or is that not recommended? I would like to remove /wordpress/ from the url.

Could be a problem with paths. When I changed site address to the install directory of wp, from https://example.com to https://example.com/wordpress it got the pages back. But I had to make a basic redirect with a meta refresh from web root to /wordpress directory.

I suspect this problem is within wp. Perhaps when creating the htaccess rewrite rules (as I understand wp does)

I have the same issue. I’m rather new to WP, but so far WP has just given me a load of problems. I think WP is too complex for what it does. This might be part of the problem.

It overwrited the existing tables without warning. That should never ever be allowed. Thank you wp.

Funny. Added 3.1 and got this after adding the basic info:

“You cannot update because WordPress 3.4.2 requires MySQL version 5.0 or higher”

Would be helpful if they added which WP version that supports my mysql 4. But I guess that would make it to simple ??