get_header() is a WordPress template tag, so only available within WordPress. You are using a WordPress theme and by mistake placed it in the root folder of your site. Place it within your WordPress installation folder in wp-content/themes/ folder. And finally activate in through dashboard by navigating to Appearance -> Themes.
A common issue related to this is that XAMPP can’t write to your wp-content directory. If you don’t know how to change this, you can edit wp-config.php and add this line: define(‘FS_METHOD’,’direct’); For detailed information, read wp-config.php documentation.
When migrating a live site to local you need to do a couple of thing. update the site url, you can do this in wp_options column (phpmyadmin) or in wp-config.php You need to find and replace all instances of the old url, you can use better search replace, its a great plugin for exactly that … Read more
I don’t have a ton of experience with manage wp but I am going to suggest an alternative for setting up a local site based on a live site. I would suggest using the plugin “All In One Migration” https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/ Install the plugin on the live, select “export” it will generate a file for you. … Read more
there are quite a few threads on here about this topic … just look at these examples: Database synchronization between dev/staging and production I would also recommend you read Mark Jaquith’s post on Local and Dev Tip’s.
Could be a few things causing it. Have you altered any core files or wp-config in anyway? Are the themes definitely valid, they have a style.css file with the required information filled in? I’d recommend setting up a completely fresh WordPress installation. Copy each theme in one at a time and make sure they show … Read more
WordPress do not work like Facebook or Twitter. Each WordPress installation is a separate application, it has its own database where users are stored, each installation is independent of one another. Your localhost installation of WordPres has no connection to the one on the server they are two entirely different entities. But you can copy … Read more
It is painful to clone the wordpress site sometimes when the site has a lot of plugins and custom code. I did it manually before. But I am using “Duplicator” plugin to handle this now. Please check: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
It looks like you have not imported the backup of database (sql file) to new database you have created in your localhost. Also after importing the database to local server you will need to replace the live site URL with new localhost URL at all instances in local database.
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