And this is why I post to stackexchange. I worked on this for a month, then as soon as I posted the question I found a resolution (Thanks to Milo as well that confirmed my suspicions). The solution was that the script the freelancer had done was trying to call the full URL, and on … Read more
Do you have to use localhost for any particular reason? The easiest fix for this will be to make those functions work correctly by putting a real hostname or ip address into the site address field in WordPress settings. Look in Settings > General Settings.
In WordPress, the footer scripts are enqueued using wp_enqueue_scripts into wp_footer(). So it is hard for you to find the direct scripts link in footer.php. To change the path you can go to PHPmyAdmin and edit the siteurl and home fields in options table of your database. You can include jQuery from CDN using the … Read more
WordPress com doesn’t allow you to upload any customization, other than CSS via their paid customization feature. Notably you can download WordPress com themes (link is available in sidebar of theme info page) and use them in self hosted installation. However, given that WP com doesn’t provide source for much of its environment, it’s unlikely … Read more
Moving your sites My recommendation would be to use the the duplicator plugin. Far and away the easiest method I’ve used to back-up, move, and restore sites from local to production or from one host to another. If the old site is WordPress – sounds like it is, you may want to consider creating a … Read more
You’ve got a few hefty questions there so I’ll point you in the right direction. Run wordpress locally. You need MAMP (for mac) or WAMP (for windows). It’ll work just like your live site but the files will be on your computer. More info: https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress_Locally_on_Your_Mac_With_MAMP Make a child theme for your site. This will allow … Read more
Try restarting the services. If you still get the error of Error establishing a database connection, open wp-config.php and check if you have entered the proper database details (username, password, database name, host)
Leave your database alone. Instead insert two lines in your wp-config.php on the local server: define(‘WP_HOME’,’http://yourlocalserver/yoursite’); define(‘WP_SITEURL’,’http://yourlocalserver/yoursite’); The rest of what you are doing probably doesn’t matter and editing the SQL export is prone to error so you could easily be breaking things.
The web server, apache in your case, is listening on port:80 on your localhost. You can tell apache to serve one particular folder based on request name (let’s call it virtual host). To teach apache about that, explore your apache folder (apache/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf) and add : <VirtualHost *:80> DocumentRoot “/www/example1” ServerName www.example.com </VirtualHost> more info https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/vhosts/examples.html
Sounds like you don’t have an image library enabled with PHP (that probably should have generated some errors so maybe first look at your php error logs). Checkout if GD2 is enabled in your php.ini file.