Mark Wilkinson

Could be a permissions problem with the files on the server? Are you hosting on a Windows server?

What I would do is use a subdomain of the current live site – perhaps staging.domain.com and the build the new site on here point the DNS to server B’s IP address. Then when you come to want to go live you can point the live domain to the same IP and run a find and replace script to change out all the URLs. I use this one:

https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB

For finding and replacing links in the database truing using this tool:

https://github.com/interconnectit/Search-Replace-DB

No problem – glad to have helped!

I can see the site and so can this service:

https://www.isup.me/https://www.lanahandmade.com/

I would think this is a problem with your clients internet access or more likely DNS

Try adding the following to the very bottom of your CSS file (style.css in your theme):

.widget.widget_archive li::before, .widget.widget_calendar li::before, .widget.widget_categories li::before, .widget.widget_links li::before, .widget.widget_meta li::before, .widget.widget_nav_menu li::before, .widget.widget_pages li::before, .widget.widget_recent_comments li::before, .widget.widget_recent_entries li::before, .widget.widget_rss li::before {
        content: '';
}

The error including “Missing a temporary folder” suggested to me that it is a PHP ini problem in that there is no temp folder to upload to before WordPress moves the upload to the correct place. If this is case then I would say this is a hosting issue – so definitely get in touch with them.

I would speak to your host as the problem lies with your server not being able to connect to www.ads-software.com. They should be able to help with why this is happening.

In answer to your first question you could change the category names but leave the category slugs the same, which means the URL would not change.

For your second questions it will break the links but you could use 301 redirects in order direct traffic from the old URLs to the new ones.

The staging link just redirects back to the original link? It is also happening not on hover but once the page has loaded?

From that error message I would suggest that you have the characters ‘404’ in your themes functions.php file on line 1. This is causing issues.

To fix you will need to access that file (see path above in the error message) on the server (as you cannot login to your WP admin section at the moment) and remove the problematic line.

You could access through cPanel or FTP.

When you set up the new instance of WordPress you mentioned above I am assuming you click on the Media in the WordPress admin and then Add New? What error did you receive when trying to upload media?

What exactly was the error message that you are seeing when trying to update?

Also take a look at the Github Repository here: https://github.com/wpmark/wpbasis

Please also read my blog post about the plugin here:

https://markwilkinson.me/2014/05/introducing-wp-basis/