troubleshooting

How do I find out from my database what version of WordPress I need?

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Actually, you have a db_version in a “_options” table, also there are information about installed plugins and themes. With information about dates when website was disrupted you can get back to approximate versions of plugins. With these assumptions you can recover the most appropriate version of WP where that version of a plugin works correctly … Read more

new WPMS site not working / Q setting up new site/subdomain

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You don’t need a new directory for your subdomain. Both your main URL (www.americanthought.org) and your subdomain URL (www.technology.americanthought.org) should point to the same directory. Multisite will serve the sites from the same set of WordPress files. (I took a quick peek, and it appears that you’ve got your subdomain’s DNS entry pointing at an … Read more

Why is my WP site blocking my own IP?

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Since this actually seems to be a server related issue, it would be better suited for stackoverflow.com, or a stack exchange that is dedicated to networking. But, I’ll do my best to help here. If the CURL is showing connection refused, the connection is getting blocked before it can even load WP. You could prove … Read more

What do I do if my WordPress site is suddenly sanitizing portions of URLs it shouldn’t?

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It turns out that the folder wp-content/mu-plugins, for whatever reason, didn’t contain plugins, but instead a dump of broken copies of most pages on the site, as well as an outdated copy of the entire public_html directory, with another plugins folder nested inside of it, etc! How that happened is beyond me, but simply removing … Read more