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WordPress

Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
9,152 Points
Posted by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
9,152 Points

Wordpress not allowing me to add or change anything..

Ive been using Wordpress on a local server however am unable to create or change the blog/posts entries, tbh i cant really do anything?

I trying to build a theme from scratch and it keeps coming up with this sort of message

"Not Found

The requested URL /Working sites/WP-Site/wp-admin/post.php was not found on this server."

Any ideas of what i may have doen and do you have to have it linked to a live website in order to start setting up a wordpress theme? ie: you cant build it offline even using just Mamp?

Thanks,

Any help would grateful

4 Answers

Lauren Clark
Lauren Clark
33,155 Points
Lauren Clark
Lauren Clark
33,155 Points

It might seem obvious but check your table prefixes - running multiple instances of WP on Mamp can lead you to overwrite rows in your database if you kept the standard wp_ leading to some errors.

Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
9,152 Points
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
9,152 Points

So what would be the best to overcome this? how do i change the prefixes once installed?

This is the only WP site that is running on mamp so unsure if thats the problem or not?

I am currently messing around with things to solve this issue..

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

You can build your site using a local server like Mamp. It looks like you have a space in your URL? I don't thing browsers can read spaces in your URL. I believe you need to put a %20in place of the space.

As that web address worked in the past?

Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
9,152 Points
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
9,152 Points

Thanks for all your responses, im just moving through the guide again "building a wordpress theme" and think i forgot to add pages or at least the templates at the beginning.. my mistake. As not very far through this creation quite easy to work through it again.

I did think about the spaces in the URL but because created locally didnt think it made a difference?

Thanks again, will post once im fully happy with how it works.