BackupBuddy : PluginBuddy | WordPress Plugins. How to troubleshoot Wordpress “White Screen” of Death. | Jared Heinrichs. Date Posted: Jun 20, 2009 Author: Jared Heinrichs Posted in Wordpress. This post will help you figure out how to resolve the WordPress “White Screen” of death and countless hours of frustration. The two main reasons I have found that is happens is when the default theme has a “-“ in it. I have also found that the “Wordpress White Screen of death” can also happen when there is a bad plug-in installed. This post covers how to resolve the “Wordpress White Screen” issues. Very much like the “Blue Screen of Death” that everyone dreads, WordPress can display the “White Screen of Death” or “White Page of Death”. My First WordPress “White Screen” of Death This was caused by me making a copy of a them. Step I took to resolve the WordPress White Screen: Opened a FTP Client like Filezilla.Connected to my Website FTPGo to: <root>WP-Content\Themes\Renamed Theme Directory so there was no “-“ in it.
My Second WordPress “White Page” of Death This was cause by my favorite “Contact Us” WordPress plug-in. How To Move A WordPress Blog or Website. For those of us who host our own blog or website, it is inevitable that it will have to be moved. First, you might need to move your blog if you are switching your web host. And second, you might also need to ‘move’ your website if you are transferring it to a new domain, new directory, or creating an alternate version on a local server.
Use the links below to navigate to the appropriate set of instructions. ⇒ Move WordPress to a New Hosting Package ⇒ Move WordPress to a New Directory ⇒ Move WordPress to a New Domain Move WordPress to a New Hosting Package Believe it or not, this is the easiest type of move. Method 1: Use WordPress’ Built-In Import WordPress features a built-in import to facilitate the process of moving content from one blog to another.
Create an export file. Method 2: Work Directly With The Database Sometimes, due to web hosting restrictions, or based on the size of your export file, Method 1 will not work so well. Create a database dump or database export file. New Domain. How To: Move Your WordPress Blog to a New Domain. Last Friday I announced that our site has moved from Hack WordPress.com to where we are now, at WPHacks.com. Towards the end of the post we got a lot of positive feedback from people wanting to know what all was involved with the process, so I’ve decided to attempt to document it here. Here are the initial steps you’ll want to take when moving to a new domain name.
Existing Domain: Export Your WordPress Posts – You can find the Export option under the Manage tab in your WordPress dashboard. You’ll want to save the file somewhere on your hard drive where you can find it a little later.Download Your wp-content Folder – This step requires FTP access. You’ll want to copy over your wp-content folder on to your hard drive or place it somewhere you can find it later so that you can upload it to your new domain.
This should grab all of your existing plugins, themes, uploads (pictures), etc. New Domain: Domain Move Troubleshooting: Any questions? How to do a full WordPress backup and restore. Update: I recommend using ManageWP to easily backup/restore/migrate your WordPress sites. WordPress is modular but yet very coherent in nature and doing a full backup is not difficult when you know what that you need to backup. WordPress site consists of several components: WordPress code (which you can always get from WordPress.org - or you can use Fantastico/CPanel WP installation)wp-config.php (this file holds your database connection information, it is automatically created if you use Fantastico).htaccess (in most cases you can regenerate it from WordPress admin)wp-content folder (contains your images, attachments, themes and plugins)Database (contains WordPress settings and posts) Basically since you can always get WordPress code you just need to backup remaining four things.
You can even live without wp-config.php if you have the database backup, as you can always make new database and create new wp-config.php. Backup This concludes your backup. Restoring the backup Database wp-content. Backing Up Your Database. Languages: English • 日本語 • Português do Brasil • Русский • ไทย • 中文(简体) • (Add your language) It is strongly recommended that you backup your database at regular intervals and before an upgrade. Restoring your database from backup is then possible if something goes wrong. Backup using cPanel X cPanel is a popular control panel used by many web host. The backup feature can be used to backup your MySql database. There is no need to unzip this file to restore it.
Using phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is the name of the program used to manipulate your database. Information below has been tried and tested using phpMyAdmin versions 2.5.3, 2.5.7-pl1, and 2.6.1-pl3 running on Unix. Detailed options are listed below, though in most cases you will be fine with the default export options. Backup Process with phpMyAdmin Log into phpMyAdmin on your serverFrom the main login screen, select 'Databases' (You may not need to do this step) The next screen will show you all the tables inside your WordPress database. 1. 2.