There are advantages and disadvantages to both. New Installation Pros You get to start over. Any mistakes you made or anything you didn’t do right you can do over. I know from experience that every time I create a website I become better at it. Fresh start. Any plugins that leave stuff, unused media, customized … Read more
Try restarting the services. If you still get the error of Error establishing a database connection, open wp-config.php and check if you have entered the proper database details (username, password, database name, host)
Use WP-CLI’s – wp core install – Runs the standard WordPress installation process. Creates the WordPress tables in the database using the URL, title, and default admin user details provided. Performs the famous 5 minute install in seconds or less. $ wp core install –url=example.com –title=Example –admin_user=supervisor –admin_password=strongpassword –[email protected] Success: WordPress installed successfully.
I’d recommend against using the same database for both. Primarily because the permalink structure would really only work for one, but also because it’s very likely you’d make a change in the dev site that adversely affects your production site. If you decided to attempt something like this, all your media would still be tied … Read more
First of all you should use register_activation_hook, this hook runs when a wordpress plugin is installed. I would also replace the call to the $wpdb for inserting post with wp_insert_post. wp_insert_post returns the post ID on success and this can be used to update the option for both page_on_front and show_on_front. function wp_install_defaults( $user_id ) … Read more
Could you be more specific about the issues you encountered? Have you tried the following? Creating a database for WordPress (if you haven’t yet). Copy the WordPress core files into bradydjohnson.com/blog. Load bradydjohnson.com/blog on your browser to run the WordPress installation.
You can easily fetch the history of that page here, using Wayback Machine. Cheers.
I’m answering my own question, since this appears to be a scenario likely to occur, despite the fact that I didn’t see it represented on any WordPress help sites. wordpress.org made mention of the field and thats about it. In the wp-options table of the wordpress database there are two fields, home and siteurl which … Read more
Yes and no. You can bypass the first step of the installation by supplying a wp-config.php file with all the DB details (and hopefully you will not forget to change the secrets in it), but the second stage includes configuring the admin user, and this information needs to be stored in the DB therefor either … Read more
You can see the username in the database and change the password easily. You do not need to reinstall wordpress. If you need to reconfigure, there are several ways: Delete wp-config.php and htaccess files and re run install Delete the information in the database and reconfigure it But if you want an easy way to … Read more