Question for WordPress Mavens

[graylocks]

i put together a Wordpress based website for a friend. (note i said put together not designed so as not to offend the true designers here!) it's a site, not a blog. anyway, i first worked on it by hosting it on a subfolder of space where i have a site hosted. it is basically done and i have to move it to the site where this friend's hosting space is.

easier said than done apparently. when i first worked on with the theme i chose, i edited it a bit with no problem. now that i'm on a different host, i don't seem to have permission to edit the theme and i'm lost when i read the page that tells how i have to change the Codex to make the files rewritable. that page is here:



i didn't have to do any of that before to alter the files. why do i have to do anything now. is there some setting i'm overlooking that would let me simply edit the theme.

in case it matters, here is the basically finished site that i'm trying to move:



here is the mess in progress i'm moving to:

[vision63]

How did you transfer the Theme Folder? If your host has a control panel, you should be able to use the "file manager" and change the Permissions of the theme folder itself. Like this:




It seems to me if you duplicated the site on the other host, then installed a fresh Wordpress installation (probably easier from the Fantastico module in most control panels), then uploaded the old theme to the new theme area, all should be fine. But then there is the issue of the databases, which contains the actual content (which I'm muddy on myself).

[graylocks]

Thank you!

[M A V I C]

Yeah, this is a pain. Especially if you're trying to move the DB. But it seems like the issues you're having aren't so much related to the move.

Let us know if vision63's suggestion fixes it. One tip though, always develop the site on the same host that will end up hosting it. Almost all hosts are a little different, and thing that work with one may not work with another. WordPress takes advantage of a lot of the environment and not all hosts offer a full hosting environment. Almost every time I've moved a WP site to another host there's been problems. It often results in finger pointing.

One thing I do like about Dreamhost is they actually try to make sure their hosting is compatible with popular apps like WordPress. Many other hosts act like the apps need to be compatible with them.

[graylocks]

M A V I C wrote:
Let us know if vision63's suggestion fixes it. One tip though, always develop the site on the same host that will end up hosting it. Almost all hosts are a little different, and thing that work with one may not work with another. WordPress takes advantage of a lot of the environment and not all hosts offer a full hosting environment. Almost every time I've moved a WP site to another host there's been problems. It often results in finger pointing.

it did but i had to set the permissions wide open in order to edit the files. i'll go back and fix that hole when i'm done.

moving this has been a pain. i used WP because i kept reading how easy it was to do a site in so i wanted to play with it. there are somethings i like such as available plug-ins and widgets, but even before this hassle of moving it i decided WP wasn't a good fit for me. i'm not a code person and in order to get it to look somewhat like what i wanted, i had to piece through the theme's code. perhaps if i actually knew what i was doing it wouldn't be a big deal but such is not the case.

[M A V I C]

Themes you can move easily, content you cannot.

Next time you have a project like this, let me know. I can walk you through how I would handle the development and all that. Not that difficult but there's some key concepts that would probably help.

As far as editing the themes... sounds like you're best off trying to find a theme that you don't need to edit. I may be able to help you with that as well.