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Harry Fox
5,571 PointsWhy won't WordPress recognise and read any of the content I have developed locally when I ftp to my server?
All the files are there in content, everything is ready to be read and yet when I view the site online WordPress completely ignores everything I worked for so long and so hard on and tells me all about how easy it is starting my first blog.
I can't tell you how much screaming agony this is causing me, please anyone, what has happened? How do I fix this?
4 Answers
Dan Ridley
Courses Plus Student 14,839 PointsHey Harry,
I believe I had the same problem when I launch my first Wordpress site that I developed. What exactly isn't showing up? is your theme available in the Theme Selection Area?
Dan
Dan Ridley
Courses Plus Student 14,839 PointsDid you activate your plugins?
Harry Fox
5,571 PointsIt appeared I would have to download all of them all over again to activate plugins. They all exist in the file structure but not in the dashboard or on the front-end
Harry Fox
5,571 Points............it was a trailing slash at the end of the URL definition in the wp-config. PHP is unforgiving
Dan Ridley
Courses Plus Student 14,839 PointsThat is so true sir. Watch all your code carefully. I am really glad you were able to find the bug
Jamie Tuffen
8,042 PointsCan we have a link to the website so we can have a look?
Harry Fox
5,571 PointsSure, it's harryfox.me, however, in an attempt to fix things I managed to ruin the config file so it looks like I might have to start over a little bit. Once I've sorted that out, which I know is a totally separate issue, I'll get back to you if I'm still having problems. Thanks for you interest all the same though.
James Maddox
17,154 PointsThe best method when developing for WordPress is to activate the theme you want to work in and from that point upload your images, pdf files, etc... you can change the css of the template inside of the theme under the "styles options" area. The other way to do this is to edit the style.css sheet from the ftp server.
If you are using plugins, you have to upload the plugins you want to use whenever you choose a theme for a new domain.
I hope this helps,
James Maddox
Harry Fox
5,571 Pointsin an attempt to fix things I managed to ruin the config file so it looks like I might have to start over a little bit. Once I've sorted that out, which I know is a totally separate issue, I'll get back to you if I'm still having problems. Thanks for you interest all the same though.
Harry Fox
5,571 PointsHarry Fox
5,571 PointsYeah the theme's there and all of the styles have loaded. None of my pages, custom post-types, or posts are though
Harry Fox
5,571 PointsHarry Fox
5,571 Pointsin an attempt to fix things I managed to ruin the config file so it looks like I might have to start over a little bit. Once I've sorted that out, which I know is a totally separate issue, I'll get back to you if I'm still having problems. Thanks for you interest all the same though.