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

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

blank page after update my theme

A blank page (‘white screen of death’) is usually caused by a fatal error in the PHP code. Since you said that you updated your theme (although it is not clear whether you personally updated the code, or if the theme was updated by the theme developer), then the problem is most likely in the … Read more

How do I insert content of various MySQL fields in post?

I also would vote for creating a short code. The shortcode code could pull data from a database/table, and ‘build’ the text you want with values from the table. Lots of googles on how to build shortcodes – check those out, vs me putting some sample code here. You would put the shortcode function in … Read more

Form display in new page

Try to create a new page and put [elh-db-insert] as content. If you want to use [insert-into-db] as your shorcode, you should change add_shortcode(‘elh-db-insert’, ‘elh_insert_into_db’); to add_shortcode(‘insert-into-db’, ‘elh_insert_into_db’);