The previous developer had hard coded update_option(‘siteurl’,’http://example.com’); update_option(‘home’,’http://example.com’); in functions.php which on being removed resolved the issue. Thanks everyone for churning in your suggestions.
Error after moving wordpress blog
I assume that each php file contains the content of a page. It depends a lot on how your content is written in that php page, you should make another php script, go trough all files in that directory. <?php if ($handle = opendir(‘/path/to/files’)) { echo “Directory handle: $handle\n”; echo “Entries:\n”; /* This is the … Read more
Solved: this was a folder permissions issue which was fixed with a chmod to the parent folder containing the affected assets. The appropriate permissions level in this case was 755. Hardening WordPress
Restoring .sql backup results in “Error establishing a database connection”
There is a very specific process to moving a WordPress site. You need to move the files and folders and change the rewrite block in .htaccess. But you also need to change URLs in the database. See Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex and WordPress Serialized PHP Search Replace Tool.
So the quickest and easiest way to resolve this is to add and run the plugin Regenerate Thumbnails as Pieter Goosen suggested. Back up your db first!
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This was solved. To close the question, I’ll put Robert’s answer here: He suggested I move the .htaccess file. This wasn’t a problem for me. The problem was the permalink structure. I changed it to the default one and then back again to my permalink setting. It worked. Thanks!