Hopefully I can be of a little help. Taking a look at the InstandWP website, it appears to be an install version of WordPress that installs into a directory, and then contains all settings etc for the site to run in a local environment. I am not sure on the file structure of InstantWP, so … Read more
It looks like you’re connecting to the live database from your local machine. Not many hosts allow remote connections to the database by default. You may have to request this type of access from your host. Also, it’s highly recommended you work with a local copy of your database instead of connecting (and possibly changing) … Read more
“MySQL server has gone away for…” This should never happen as result of admin operation on vanilla wordpress. One post publishing should not include enough DB writes to make the DB go away. Have you tried with all plugins inactive? Hey, is there a way I can host all the WP-admin functions locally, and simply … Read more
You could use slugs instead of IDs. Taken from the Starkers theme (add it to your functions.php): add_filter( ‘body_class’, ‘add_slug_to_body_class’ ); function add_slug_to_body_class( $classes ) { global $post; if( is_home() ) { $key = array_search( ‘blog’, $classes ); if($key > -1) { unset( $classes[$key] ); }; } elseif( is_page() ) { $classes[] = sanitize_html_class( $post->post_name … Read more
Use if( file_exists(plugin_dir_path(__FILE__) . ‘myfile.ext’) ) {} instead of if( file_exists( plugins_url( “myfile.ext”, __FILE__ ) ) ) {} See plugin_dir_path in the Codex.
You are trying to access the install via a file url: file://home/cnorton/scratch/install.php.html That is not going to work. That bypasses the web server and you need the webserver to process the request and pass things to PHP, which then passes the generated page back to the server for delivery to the client (your browser). You … Read more
I for instance have MAMP pro running with custom development URLs like project.dev. When I created the one-click installation of WordPress through MAMP, it automaticly entered the port-number into WordPress as well. I don’t think WordPress likes when the port-number is :80 which is standard. Removing the port-number from WordPress Address and Site Address did … Read more
I recommend (and use myself) XAMPP located here LINK, which will allow you to run a web-server on a machine of choice. Once you setup XAMPP, you would install WordPress or WordPress with Multisite (enabled) just like you would any other WordPress installation on a website host. You have full control over your server (run … Read more
Don’t use the automated install feature. Go to the plug in folder and drop the plugin to there. Of course, unzip it first.
The solution: I pasted the block of Mutisite code below the “That’s all, stop editing! Happy blogging.” line. I’d installed multisite so often that I didn’t pay attention to that part. So if you ever think you’ve installed multisite correctly but the My Sites button never appears, you’ve pasted the definitions too far down in … Read more