Garth Mortensen

Can you follow the steps here for your scenario just to make sure you didn’t miss something?
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

Can you check to see if there are any JavaScript errors? https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Your_Browser_to_Diagnose_JavaScript_Errors

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Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress

If GoDaddy doesn’t have mysql extensions available for PHP, that’s definitely their problem. That being said, it doesn’t rule out a plugin or theme doing something stupid.

I recommend disabling all plugins (sounds like you’ve tried that), and switching to a default theme. I’m going to paste a default answer that repeats some of this, but it also has other useful information in it.

Internal server errors (error 500) are often caused by plugin or theme function conflicts, so if you have access to your admin panel, try deactivating all plugins. If you don’t have access to your admin panel, try manually resetting your plugins (no Dashboard access required). If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.

If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the default theme for your version of WordPress to rule-out a theme-specific issue. If you don’t have access to your admin panel, access your server via SFTP or FTP, or a file manager in your hosting account’s control panel, navigate to /wp-content/themes/ and rename the directory of your currently active theme. This will force the default theme to activate and hopefully rule-out a theme-specific issue.

If that does not resolve the issue, it’s possible that a .htaccess rule could be the source of the problem. To check for this, access your server via SFTP or FTP, or a file manager in your hosting account’s control panel, and rename the .htaccess file. If you can’t find a .htaccess file, make sure that you have set your SFTP or FTP client to view invisible files.

If you weren’t able to resolve the issue by either resetting your plugins and theme or renaming your .htaccess file, we may be able to help, but we’ll need a more detailed error message. Internal server errors are usually described in more detail in the server error log. If you have access to your server error log, generate the error again, note the date and time, then immediately check your server error log for any errors that occurred during that time period. If you don’t have access to your server error log, ask your hosting provider to look for you.

I’m not extremely familiar with any of these plugins, but there are several affiliate plugins that may have this functionality in them. I suggest looking through some of these and seeing if any of them fit your needs.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/search.php?type=term&q=affiliates

Per the Forum welcome, topics like this are closed due to the amount of spam they attract

The WordPress team has provided a list of recommended hosting providers. For more details and other recommendations, please search through the forums or via Google (or your preferred search engine).

Just following up, I’m able to pull up https://www.lizbellmedia.co.uk/wp-admin without a redirect to WordPress.com. Also, a DNS check shows the name servers have updated world wide. https://www.whatsmydns.net/#NS/lizbellmedia.co.uk

Glad this got resolved for you ??

You can follow this article. I recommend using the part that talks about the sendmail_path in php.ini.

https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/206

The notification for updates is stored in the database. I would recommend installing a plugin like https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/transients-manager/ and deleting all your transients (and only your transients) and see if the problems resolves.

Are you looking for a plugin to install and have it Just Work?? Or are you looking for some code examples to write you own functionality?

Not a dumb question. DNS can be confusing even to professionals ??

If you have a domain at godaddy and your site is on wordpress.com, then you don’t need a bluehost account (unless you’re doing email hosting or have others sites there). If that’s the case, then you should point your domain to wordpress.com and map the domain from there.

I’m not completely familiar with how wordpress.com does their domain mapping, but if you did have stuff on your bluehost account you wanted to keep, you could transfer the domain to bluehost, but its really up to you. Either way, if your site is being hosted at wordpress.com the domain ultimately needs to be pointed there.

Since you just moved your site, your DNS can still be propagating. Usually this resolves itself within a few hours (I’ve seen up to a few days though :/ ).

Try clearing your browser cache and cookies. I’d also recommend contacting the VPS/Dedicated support team at Bluehost.

I second what sterndata said. If you are on Bluehost regular shared, there is a “Cloud Sites” option that could be an option. There’s also a managed WordPress hosting option.

I will keep updating this as long as they keep annoying me ??

This could be caused by a few things.

Is your woocommerce plugin up to date?
Was the video about an extension the you can install for woocommerce?

Using subdomains is a common practice for new sites in development. Once you’re done with it, you can move the html5 site out of the way (don’t delete it, just move the files out of the way) and move the WordPress files in place. Then change the home and siteurl in the WordPress database.