zooph

thanks for the reply – sorry but I’m not sure what to switch? regarding ‘If you switch (temporarily) to Twenty Eleven’

thanks,
Zph

Thanks so much James, it worked fine! appreciate your reply!

Sanvila, thanks for your reply! It gives me some hope ??

>’as far as you copy the Media Library to the new WP install’?

I’m not sure what you mean here? Could you explain or post a url explaining.

and do i need to know what my ‘$wp_current_db_version’ is?

My idea is also to move hosting. So the plan is to set up the latest WP install on the new host, import the existing database from a 1.5 install if all goes to plan, then redirect the DNS.

This way i can have the old site running while i get the new one up and working to avoid downtime – sound right?

I NEED to keep the old permalinks intact for linking purposes, search engines, and facebook likes, will i need to watch out for anything to avoid messing this up during the importing of the old db into the new install?

Many thanks for you help and comments to all!

just bumping this for a final time, anyone?

Heh there,
just bumping this in the hope that someone can help with the above issue.

I want to disable comments on my blog and fully delete ‘deleted’ comments in my SQL db.

All previous comments that Ive deleted are still added to the db file making it very huge. Also, allthough Ive disabled comments for new posts, there doesnt seemed to be a way of deleting the ability to add new comments to old posts,

thus im still recieving a lot of spam!

thanks,
paul

Rev. Voodoo, songdogtech.

A belated thanks for your replies and advice. Since there is no way i will upgrade in the near future, do either of you, or anyone, know how to disable comments completely for every post on my site.

songdogtech: At some point ill try that SQL query.

Allthough Ive disabled comments for recent posts, I still receive hundreds of spam comments for all the old posts going back to 2004.

hopefully there is a quick fix to prevent this from continuing and bloating my mSQL database.

many thanks in advance!

paul

Yes, it fixed it,
thanks!
now how to get a tweetme button working with manual installation?
please see this post:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/adding-a-tweet-button-maunally-or-with-plugin-works-but-doesnt-include-permalink?replies=1

anyone?

hi,

Ive managed to fix the problem. It seem there was an issue acessing the options-permalink.php in admim after i made permalink changes – i dont know why?

Fortunately i have a old backup for my comple public_html dir so i overwrote the existing options-permalink.php with a back up allowing me to reset the fields in the options-permalink.php with their default empty values.

Great, thanks for your help guys

again thanks for the swift reply

When i goto the admin for permalinks i only see this page

https://www.dataisnature.com/permalink%20admin.jpg

By the time i see this page the site is down, but the rest of the admin works fine. As you can see there are no radio button to reset.

Unfortunately i have other sites running from this server.

You can see the problems with links at https://www.dataisnature.com.

Any futher help muchly appreciated!

Thanks

thanks for the swift reply. Im using version 1.5 very old. If i go back to the permalink option page in admin it has a field that i added:

/Result: http:/dataisnature.com/2010/12/16/sample-post/

originally it was blank, if i go to that admin page it appears to break as the css doesnt work and im not able to update the filed with the blank field as it was before

anymore suggestions?

thnx
p

ok a little searching and i found the answer to my first question here for anyone thats interested in bulk deleting comments via phpmyadmin:

https://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2009/07/04/easily-delete-all-wordpress-spam-comments-using-phpmyadmin/

But i still dont have the answers to the second two question, anyone?

buddha,

well i would edit it but i can’t find where. Usually a recent post has an edit link next to the post. Im logged in and cant find it.

Thats why i put ‘something’ in in the first place ??

my previous wp-config that worked was

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘something_wrdp1’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘something_wrdp1’); // Your MySQL username

so i just changed to the new database name…

Ill go hunting for that info from my host!

thanks buddha trance,

yeah, actually the settings for ‘something’ are real data:

<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘paulprud_wrdp1’); // The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, ‘paulprud_wrdp1’); // Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘T5yTqiGgWYnN’); // …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

When i restored the database on the new server it changed the name to ‘paulprud_wrdp1’ so i added that to the config file.

How do i know the password is right? It’s from the old host setting so i assume its wrong? I have indeed read the page on ‘moving to a new server’ but it doesnt explain what you actually need to edit in the wp-config file in detail. How can i find out this information?

Many thanks again…

hmmm . My wordpress installation is from 2004. The wp-config i have is much slimer.


<?php
// ** MySQL settings ** //
define('DB_NAME', 'something'); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', 'something'); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'something'); // ...and password
define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // 99% chance you won't need to change this value

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple blogs in a single database.
$table_prefix = 'wp_'; // example: 'wp_' or 'b2' or 'mylogin_'

// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to 'de'
// to enable German language support.
define ('WPLANG', '');

/* Stop editing */

define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__).'/');
require_once(ABSPATH.'wp-settings.php');
?>

Could it be the old password thats casuing problem?