I'm currently working on a wordpress website, of which I'm trying to overwrite content-extensions.php with a new version. On uploading this it appears to work, the file transfer is successful. However, there is no change in the browser even after refreshing and clearing the cache. I've also ensured that there are no plugin's caching within wordpress, and file permissions are what they should be within FileZilla.
Here's the odd bit.
If I go into theme editor, and locate content-extensions.php I can see the changes that I've made in the source code. For whatever reason they're just not appearing in the browser.
I'd be really grateful if someone could point me in the right direction for this one, as I haven't a pickle.
Many thanks.
Are you working with an extension or with a theme based function?
If it's an extension, remember to activate it, i often forget that, i upload code, see it in the extension manager but forget to activate it.
If it's in the theme, are you sure you are using the right theme and not the basic one?
I know this doesn't shed any light on why it's actually happening but I've had that before and just deleted the file and uploaded the new one rather than trying to overwrite it.
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I have a wordpress website, I created a customized php template to the homepage and loaded from the back-end in the template page settings.
During the last months everything was working perfectly when I change anything to the template code effects the homepage without any problems.
Suddenly, yesterday when I tried to upload a updated file, nothing changed on the homepage.
I remove the browser cache, and wordpress cache, used another device to check, without any luck.
The wordpress black admin tools bar appears on all sites pages so I can edit and control this page, but it's not appears on the homepage.
For sure I checked again the theme settings for the homepage and page template settings, and everything is correctly configured.
I tried to activate another theme, the surprise that I found the homepage still the same and all other pages changed to the new theme.
I am losing my mind due to this, and I don't understand what may happened.
Download your site on your computer and see whether it happens also on your own computer when simulating with XAMPP.
Are you sure that the new added files are really being uploaded to the server? did you check it up with downloading the files? Maybe the modified files could not been uploaded? Another thing would be that some new installed plugins are making those problems. Have you installed some new plugins like a plugin which are speeding up your wordpress site? There are some popular plugins which speed up your site with caching your whole site and working as a CDN.
Since i dont know which modification you do on your website it is difficult to find a solution. If those modifications are changes of articles then look into the database.
You could look into the SQL Database whether those new information are being saved. E.g. you try to post a new article. Is this article being saved in the SQL database? Do you see any errors on the page? Does this effect each page / section of your website or is it only for a specific module e.g. "image uploader"??
Did you try to replace a simple image on your site with another image ? Can you see the difference on the website? I would start with little steps to be sure whether this is a server issue, template issue or sth with unsufficient priviliges. There were also new wordpress updates, maybe they affected your template? Another thing would be to recover your complete site from a backup and see whether it works like before and be sure that your site has not been hacked.
Ok so long and short of this is, I built a custom plugin for a Wordpress site and was working on a small update. Think perhaps I have a small typo error in the code but after saving the update my site is now showing a 500 error.
I have already attempted the following usual methods without success:
1: renamed the plugin and plugins directories to attempt to both disable individual/all plugins.
2: disabled all plugins via db.
Now the change itself was made via the wp back end, which updated the file. However I cannot see this change via FTP. This baffles me. I would assume somehow the database updated the file somewhere within itself which is perhaps overriding the original file? I haven't seen Wordpress do this before.
I'm not sure but would like to be able to figure out why this happened and if it's fixable.
For now I am just going to do a rollback. Any thoughts on this would be most welcome.
I suggest you try:
restoring the database. If you can’t see which file changed probably means that the database was changed and not a specific file. A popular plug-in for back up and restoration is updraft plus which enables you to select files, the database, or themes. Assuming you don’t have a restore plugin installed you could contact your hosting provider who may be able to restore the database to an earlier version. This functionality may also be available through the control panel on the Domain and Hosting. If this works then at least you know where the trouble lies with your dog and development.
I am really new to Wordpress and I haven't use it before. So I have source code of Wordpress which is already installed somewhere on says www.theshop.com. I took out the source code and upload it into another server xx.xx.xx.xx/theshop. I have also set up the MySQL and the it's database is already there.
When I go to xx.xx.xx.xx/theshop in the browser, the page is successfully displayed, however the CSS is missing. The menu link also seems to hold the previous domain still like theshop.com/theshop/?pageid=1. I have changed the DB config in wp-config.php however I could not find how to solve this absolute path or domain issue maybe.
Sorry if I miss anything but please let me know if any other information required. Again this is my first involvement in Wordpress. There is no cPanel or any automated installer for Wordpress on my server. Plus the browser says my Wordpress is already installed. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
I'm working on developing my first Wordpress theme. As of now, I've just been coding the files, zipping my theme folder, and then uploading and activating the theme in my Wordpress Dashboard to test it.
However, this has become quite tedious, as I basically have to:
1) code a bit of my theme, zip into folder
2) deactivate/remove old version of theme in Wordpress dashboard
3) upload new version of theme, and activate
4) repeat...
I'd like to install Wordpress locally, but I don't quite understand how to do that yet, and I'm not familiar setting up a local webserver.
SO... rather than do it the tedious way that I have been, is it OK to just make sure my theme is activated, and then edit my files and overwrite/upload them to the wp themes folder over FTP using Filezilla?
I'm guessing it'd be considered bad practice, but for the time being would this work well enough until I learn a better way?
That's definitely okay.
You can modify the files locally and then upload the changes using FTP. Make sure you have backups so if you accidentally FTP the wrong changes you can easily revert them.
Yes you can absolutely download the uncompressed theme and modify and put it back using ftp.
Also, some themes support whats called a child theme. This allows you to override the theme with your changes, without changing the original source code. Which in turn gives you a better upgrade path from the original theme provider when they have updates.
I have actually had some weird formatting issues with WP after manually editing files, where they would no longer run, so I try to avoid it. But I have bad luck that time.
I'm having a serious problem. I have wordpress 3.9 installed on my server. the problem is that my website front end loads good, but my back end just loads text :
I have updated/reinstalled wordpress but nothing has happend. What should I do?
Thanks for help.
I'm 100% sure that if you simply do the following, you'll figure out what's wrong and fix it.
Deactivate all plugins without use of your WP-Admin.
Activate them, 2 or 3 at a time, and determine which plugin is the culprit
If none of these plugins are the culprit, go to the WordPress site and download WordPress. With an FTP utility such as FileZilla or another client if you already have one, then upload the entire wp-admin folder to your server, overwriting older files.
Your WordPress admin will be fine after these steps. And of course, never alter any core WordPress files -- ever. The only files you should ever tinker with are files in your child theme, which is something you should be using.
Would be great to have a bit more information about this topic. First of all: Is this a new problem respectively did the admin run without errors before? (3.9 sounds like the page is not a new clean install).
Usually I would start debugging the page via e.g. firebug => Check the Stats of the CSS-Files.
If they load correctly (200) check if they are empty or incomplete (Incompleteness can be checked via diff against the original file ... most IDEs will handle that for you)! If they aren't you have probably just diabled CSS in your browser for the URL of the admin-panel.
If they don't load, try to check why! If the files exist its most probably an error in your .htaccess (wrong rewrite, blocked directory, etc.).