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wordpress troubles.... need some help

by LastingLifeSuccess
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Hi Warriors,

I'm building a website with wordpress and am having troubles. The site is hosted through yahoo small business. So, I created a database and uploaded wordpress, installed just fine and it's showing up on the screen. I added a page and made it the homepage and that one shows up. BUT.... all the other pages I've published since the homepage don't show up and some are re-directed to the old website pages.

I can't figure out why this is happening. I've deleted the old databases in Mysql, I've deleted old files using the FTP to access the webserver, so I can't figure out where the issue it.

Here's the website:

All Arts Academy

Thanks for any help!!!!!

Rebecca
#troubles #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
    My first thought would be to wonder if this is a theme issue?

    Try activating one of the default themes and see if your pages show up.

    If that doesn't help, try deactivating any plug-ins.
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  • Profile picture of the author LastingLifeSuccess
    well.... i tried the theme change and still the same problem. also, i didn't have any plugins activated yet before i published the pages.

    any other ideas?
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    • Profile picture of the author craigc1980
      Originally Posted by RebeccaLynn View Post

      well.... i tried the theme change and still the same problem. also, i didn't have any plugins activated yet before i published the pages.

      any other ideas?
      Make sure your pages are linking correctly.

      Also when you make the pages, are they showing up as being created?

      Try using the pagemash plugin. Maybe that will clear things up a little.
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  • Profile picture of the author underthegun
    I may have missed the point entirely but if you create a page in Wordpress and there is an existing folder in the Wordpress directory it will bug out and not work.

    You said you were replacing an old site, so that thought just occurred to me.
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  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    It is probably the fact that you changed your permalinks off of default.

    Yes, you want to change them for SEO purposes, but Yahoo hosting doesn't allow it. They do not allow access to the .htaccess file to make any changes whatsoever.

    (You may not know that you need access to that file, as WP does it behind the scenes, but it needs to be altered and Yahoo won't do it).

    Even though Yahoo says they ARE compatible with Wordpress, for all practical use they are NOT.

    (I wrote a more detailed post here Changing Permalinks On Wordpress With Yahoo Web Hosting)
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    • Profile picture of the author netkid
      I totally agree with VegasGreg. Yahoo is definitely NOT going to do you any favors when unhooking their yahoo store or websites without a fight. I have a friend who had the same exact thing happened to him when he wanted to move everything to a WP blog. We just deleted the whole Yahoo site and recreated it on Wordpress from scratch.

      Best way is to start a clean install with Wordpress and manually copy your content to the new platform. Hopefully, you don't have tons and tons of content?
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      • Profile picture of the author LastingLifeSuccess
        Originally Posted by netkid View Post

        I totally agree with VegasGreg. Yahoo is definitely NOT going to do you any favors when unhooking their yahoo store or websites without a fight. I have a friend who had the same exact thing happened to him when he wanted to move everything to a WP blog. We just deleted the whole Yahoo site and recreated it on Wordpress from scratch.

        Best way is to start a clean install with Wordpress and manually copy your content to the new platform. Hopefully, you don't have tons and tons of content?
        by change platform, do you mean change hosting accounts. because i already tried deleting all the pre-installed wordpress files, and dropped all the old wordpress databases, then i re-uploaded wordpress myself.
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        • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
          Originally Posted by RebeccaLynn View Post

          by change platform, do you mean change hosting accounts. because i already tried deleting all the pre-installed wordpress files, and dropped all the old wordpress databases, then i re-uploaded wordpress myself.
          If you don't want to have your page/post link structure (permalinks) as yoursite.com/?page_id=3 instead of yoursite.com/about (or any variation) you will need to switch hosting companies.

          It doesn't matter how many times you reinstall WP or re-do the site. With Yahoo hosting it just doesn't work.
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          • Profile picture of the author netkid
            Yeah Rebecca, I meant that you should get your own hosting. I use Hostgator. You can get a small hosted account for about $5 per month on average. Then get your domain name DNS'd or redirected to that server URL.

            Lastly, get into your cpanel part of the host program and you can do a 30 second install of Wordpress directly from a function within cpanel called "Fantastico."

            In other words, I would drop Yahoo hosting and business website altogether....
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      • Profile picture of the author ~kev~
        Originally Posted by netkid View Post

        Best way is to start a clean install with Wordpress and manually copy your content to the new platform.
        Old wordpress site - Wordpress admin control panel - left column - tools - export - download export file.

        New wordpress site - Wordpress admin control panel - left column - tools - import - import the file you exported from the other site.

        All of your post and images will be moved to the new site - you just need to make sure your images folder is writable on the new site so the images can be copied from the old site. I have done this several times, and it works like a charm.
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        • Profile picture of the author GregGarrison
          I definitely would go with HostGator as your host. Yahoo is not very wordpress friendly. Also with HostGator, use the fantastico de lux smiley face icon to install wordpress in about half a minute. No ftp client. It's the best.
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          • Profile picture of the author netkid
            @Kev, I stand corrected! Kev, I noticed you are a great resouce. keep it up....
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