You have two tasks to solve here: 1. Resolve the time-out problem. 2. Update WordPress. Resolve the time-out problem These things don’t just happen because your WP is old. There must be a concrete reason. The three most common reasons are: Not enough memory. Maybe your hosting provider has limited the memory? Try adding the … Read more
I think HTML mirror is the way to go here. There is no point keeping dynamic site that doesn’t need to be. And leaving it unmaintained is not really possible on auto-pilot – even if updates are automatic there is no guarantee some plugin won’t get just dropped by developer. Alternatively you can build multi-design … Read more
Try looking in the {$prefix}_options table in the WordPress MySQL database
phpMyAdmin is software typically installed by your host and available via your hosting control panel, it is not part of WordPress. A search on web for [your host] phpMyAdmin will probably tell you what you need to do.
And when I need to restore, I do a search replace in the sql file all localhost to that dns… Doing a find/replace in a text dump of the database will break the serialized data stored in theme options. Use interconnectit.com WordPress Serialized PHP Search Replace Tool to correctly find/replace serialized data. Some simple themes … Read more
It looks like you have not imported the backup of database (sql file) to new database you have created in your localhost. Also after importing the database to local server you will need to replace the live site URL with new localhost URL at all instances in local database.
Looking at the second screenshot, it seems like the question and answer fields are generated by the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Plugin with Repeater add-on. The symptom that only the item number is tracked, but not the item contents, reinforces this assumption. The ACF Plugin can either be installed as a plugin, but I think … Read more
You need to also back up the database in addition to the plugins folder. Not only is information stored in the database about which versions of which plugins are installed, an updated plugin itself may make changes to its settings which is stores in the database. Without backing up both the database AND the plugins … Read more
Content in WordPress is inside the WordPress database. If you have deleted the WP database, then the content is gone. Installing a new WP instance will create a new, mostly blank database. So, unless you have a backup copy of your database to restore, your content is gone. Your hosting place may have made a … Read more
Error establishing database connection Can Only mean one thing and that is an Error establishing database connection, check your wp-config.php again and see that the database settings is correct and also make sure that your database user as permission on the database server.