having done a few rebuilds myself I have seen my share of horror situations because some devs make a mess of it 🙂 It’s hard to advise you what the best way is without examining the code/setup/problems and without knowing what budget is available. Can be fixed in the template if you have someone who … Read more
You should update both. ASAP. PHP 5.3 us not supported for over 3 years… So it may have security vulnerabilities… AFAIR there are no known vulnerabilities in WP 4.7.11, but… It’s an old version too… WP 4.7.11 should work fine on PHP 7.2 and WP 4.9.8 should also work on PHP 5.3 (but at least … Read more
As stated here: The only current officially supported version is WordPress 4.9.8. Previous major releases before this may or may not get security updates as serious exploits are discovered. And it has always been that way – only one version is officially supported. This means it’s always a bad idea to postpone updates. So if … Read more
changing the theme folder I guess it won’t affect on updates but changing it’s name do. So like you said the best way that every professional company advice is to create a child-theme and modify everything you want on it.
Your WordPress install is out of date. Upgrading to the latest version ( 4.0.1 at time of writing ) should fix those issues, while fixing hundreds of other bugs and security issues. As a side note, you should always keep both your PHP and WordPress installs at the latest versions. Select PHP 5.4, and move … Read more
Visit /wp-admin/upgrade.php on each site to manually upgrade the database e.g. http://www.example.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php This happens if you have a site on the WordPress network that doesn’t resolve or if you have spoofed DNS locally but not on the server – your computer knows that www.example.com points at 127.0.0.1 but your local server is still resolving www.example.com … Read more
The first thing to try: Manually download a fresh copy of WordPress Log into the FTP account and upload everything EXCEPT the wp-content folder It is important that you do NOT copy over the wp-content folder or the wp-config.php files. These are custom to each site. This will allow you to make sure the upgrade … Read more
I use XAMPP myself, but WAMP isn’t much different. I’ll bet you have not enabled the curl module. WordPress can use other methods (streams and fsockopen) as a fallback, but these may be disabled by default as well in a stock install. Curl is preferred and easy to enable. Close WAMP Go your the \bin\php\version … Read more
This is just a guess, mind you, but it’s still worth a shot. First, turn on debug mode and see if there’s any glaring errors when trying to view your content. If not (and I’m thinking there won’t be, but I would feel quite silly if there were errors pointing to the issue), then roll … Read more
Hook before & after plugin / core update