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Woke up & saw my blog acting very weird

by 4thstreet
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Hi,

I wasn't sure where to post this so I hope that it is in the right spot.
I have a very old blog at the-weightloss-guide(dot) com and noticed that all of the text (except for header & post titles) was gone plus my side bar was also missing.

I decided to do a test post and when I did, the text for the test post shows and when you click on the hyperlink to the test title is shows part of my sidebar.

My index page now shows my test posts (I've now written 3) and 1 other post, but no other posts show

When I go into the admin panel I receive a internal server error when I click on plugins and there are no themes showing when I go to "presentation".
When I click on theme editor I again receive in internal error.

The weird thing is that I have not added any new plugins or upgrade to WP 3.0 or do anything except make a post between yesterday and today. It was fine yesterday and this morning I even deleted the post just in case something wasn't right. I also deleted the all in one seo plugin that I had updated about 2 weeks ago --again just in case.

I checked dates on all the files that I could see and none had any new dates like someone messed around with it.

Now this blog is very old (when blogs were just starting) & when I hired someone to create it they did put it together kind of crazy so I have not been able to update the blog and it's still 2.0.4.

If I didn't have tons of articles and links pointing towards the darn thing I would scrap it, move the url to hostgator where I have all my other blogs ( I am clueless with the web host I'm with for this blog(no Cpanel all done with FTP) and start all over again as it's so outdated.

So here's my question. Should I just scrap it, delete it all and start new or should I try to get it fixed? Because it's not set up like any other blog that I know of I have not given it the attention that it deserves (one page is just a banner farm and have wanted to change it for while) or since it is so old try to get it fixed and updated (I'd still want to move it to hostgator) ?

In the way back machine it looks like this
http:////web.archive.org/web/2008031...(dot)com/blog/

What would you do?
Thank you!!
PS I apologize for the length of this post.
#acting #blog #weird #woke #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author layouts4you
    i personally would start a new blog with a current version of wordpress since your is so old. you can probably salvage the posts if you can save the mysql. it kid of sound to me like the host updated the server or something like that.
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  • Profile picture of the author 4thstreet
    I did check with my webhost & they verified that all was ok on their side & that nothing had changed on their side either.

    Very weird.
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  • Profile picture of the author layouts4you
    yep very wierd. i wish i had the best answer for you. i still thinking updating to a new system would be best for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketing Profits Software
    Looks like you have a PHP error somewhere in the theme, plugins, or widgets. If you will "view source" on your site, you will see that the HTML abruptly ends:

    Code:
    <div class="post" id="post-400">
	 <span class="posted-by"></span>
	 <h2 class="storytitle"><a href="http://www.the-weightloss-guide.com/blog/about/" rel="bookmark">Disclaimer</a></h2>
	
	<div class="storycontent">
    This tells me there is probably an error that stops execution of your site. Insert the following code in the top of your Wordpress theme's "functions.php" file (this will turn on error reporting):

    Code:
    <?php ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT);?>
    Afterwards, visit your blog's home page and let me know if there are any error messages.
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  • Profile picture of the author 4thstreet
    Holy crapoly I get tons of errors!
    Most of them relating to undefined index page in relations to wp-includes/classes.php (about 3 dozen different lines), also undefined variable with wp-db.php & wp-includes/functions.php.

    I do know that I will want to move the blog so that I can use a newer version of WP but it would be nice if I could it kind of working right while I move.

    Thank you Chris & Layouts for you for your help!
    Although it's been neglected this blog is my baby & would like to get her to shine again.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketing Profits Software
    Remove the PHP code from the functions.php file, and deactivate your plugins one-by-one to see if that is the cause of your problem.

    P.S. - If you would prefer me to solve your issue, send me a PM.
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  • Profile picture of the author fba
    Phew, I get a few dozens of errors warnings.

    So, you need to considerate some things before working on it:

    1. Does it have any actual traffic?
    2. Do you see the articles in the DB?
    3. Have you tried deleting some plugins?
    4. Has it been hacked or does it have any malware?

    Chances are this website has really low traffic. I would try and rescue any article standing around, delete the whole thing and start from scratch.

    Althought you haven´t done or move anyting around, is likely that that WP version has some bugs, hence why you have all this warnings around.

    Do not make a big deal of it, and next time, try and install a plugin to backup your WP DB, at least weekly if you do lot of content. That´s why I do.

    regards,
    Flavio
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  • Profile picture of the author 4thstreet
    Thank you guys for your input!

    I think it's time to put this baby to bed as she's past her prime.
    I'll get a new theme, then move it to the web host were I have all my other blogs and start all over again. At least I know that I can update WP as new versions come along.

    At one time it was a site on one of the "build your website easily" kind of a site and did very well but my domain name was a sub domain for the full site.

    I then paid somewhere around $3500 to get it changed to a blog (this is when blogs were just starting) and it continued to do very well until I couldn't update it with newer versions of WP and the site got slower and slower, it wasn't able to handle new versions of plugins and I got bored with it.

    Like a husband, I kept on with it even though it had outlived it's usefulness (I hope my husband doesn't see this) .

    As soon as I find a new blog that I like & have the time I've move on.

    Again - thank you so much!!!!
    Patricia
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketing Profits Software
    Remember, if your blog content is still in the database, export it (Wp-Admin->Tools->Export->Wordpress) so you can import it into your new Wordpress installation.

    I hope you are able to rebuild and make the site more successful.
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  • Profile picture of the author 4thstreet
    Chris,
    Unfortunately the blog version doesn't even have an option of exporting, just importing.

    It's odd, but when I just go to "manage" my posts, some will show and some wont - it's random. When I search another month, then go back to the original month - different ones show and the ones that were showing don't.

    I'll just ftp the last month or two to my hd and decide on which ones I'll use again.

    I'll also probably drop the /blog at the end of the url as it was a redirect anyway.

    Thank you!

    What would you recommend as the best (ok, I really mean easy) way to back up a blog - do you have a favorite plugin or another way to do regular back ups?
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  • Profile picture of the author brayanaustin
    I know you want to spend the blog so you can use a new version of WP, but it would be nice if you could kind of work just when I move.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oakleaf
    Hi 4thstreet,

    If your looking for a simple way to backup your blog, try this plugin WordPress › WP-DB-Backup WordPress Plugins .
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