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Gedalyah (Gary) Frankel
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Gedalyah (Gary) Frankel
Courses Plus Student 7,234 Points
Posted by Gedalyah (Gary) Frankel
Gedalyah (Gary) Frankel
Courses Plus Student 7,234 Points

Settings > General Experiment Gone Bad

I took the "Learn WordPress" track and I created my first local website using DesktopServer.

I went to Settings > General and I experimented by changing the WordPress Address (URL) and the Site Address (URL) from:

'wpdemogf1.dev' to 'wpdemogf1a.dev'

I now can not access my website AT ALL.

Any advice on how to regain access to my website? Please?

2 Answers

Gedalyah (Gary) Frankel
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Gedalyah (Gary) Frankel
Courses Plus Student 7,234 Points
Gedalyah (Gary) Frankel
Gedalyah (Gary) Frankel
Courses Plus Student 7,234 Points

Hi Joel, First thanks for your reply. In the end I got really lucky. I opened up the DesktopServer and there is a small button in the lower left called 'Sites'. That opened a Chrome tab to 'http://localhost/' > Database > http://localhost/phpmyadmin/db_structure.php?db=wpdemogfDB0pjgs#PMAURL-5:sql.php?db=wpdemogfdb0pjgs&table=wp_options&server=1&target=&token=bce8f024d82881c2a61e8f4b12fb364f.

I found an option there to edit the 'siteurl' and 'home' options back to 'wpdemogf1.dev'.

It worked.

Joel Bardsley
Joel Bardsley
31,246 Points
Joel Bardsley
Joel Bardsley
31,246 Points

A quick way to undo those changes - If your theme has a functions.php file, open it up and add the following lines (below the opening <?php tags):

update_option( 'siteurl', 'http://wpdemogf1.dev' );
update_option( 'home', 'http://wpdemogf1.dev' );

Save the file and you should at least be able to access your site again. Once it works, you can remove those lines from your functions.php file.

If the above doesn't work, this link provides several alternative methods you can try: https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL