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Wordpress exported to new URL- about and archive missing?

  • 17-07-2010 7:58am
    #1
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,154 ✭✭✭


    Hi
    I bought a .ie URL, my brother is doing all the back end stuff for me- exporting my wordpress.com site so it appears in the .ie, hosting etc However archive and about pages didn't export.
    Anyone any help please? (it's a photoblog)
    Thanks
    Pa


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  • #2
    nilhg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,164 ✭✭✭nilhg


    No actual hands on knowledge here but I'd have thought that the archive page is created dynamically from the database so wouldn't be exported.

    Not sure why the about page isn't coming across, but a quick copy/paste might do the trick?


  • #3
    TinyExplosions
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    Have you taken the wordpress.com blog, exported it and stuck it onto a hosting account you own, or have you just changed <oldname>.wordpress.com to point to your .ie domain?

    If the latter, I'd get in touch with the wordpress.com support and they should sort it, if not it could be a couple of things:

    Before importing the database, you need to do a copy/replace of <old domain name> with <new domain name> -there's a lot of hard coded entries to this in the database

    Is the navigation to the about page hard coded? If so there could be a problem with your .htaccess rewrites in your new domain

    If the navigation is pointing to a url similar to <your domain>.ie?p=12 (or any number) it could be that your about page is no longer page 12. To find out the number, login to your wp-admin, and hover your mouse over the 'edit' link and you'll see a url that includes ?p=xx -the xx is the number of the page.

    If you want to stick a link to the site here (or pm me it) I can have a quick look and see if it's anything obvious


  • #4
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,154 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    Site is http://www.photoblog.ie My brother is doing all the work so I can't answer; Ill ask him though.
    Cheers for offering to take a look & hopefully u can help.
    Thanks,
    Pa


  • #5
    TinyExplosions
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    The problem is where the url's are pointing... you most likely have something mucked up with the wordpress config, but to fix it do the following:

    the archive page is currently pointing to http://www.photoblog.ie/2010/
    it should be going to http://www.photoblog.ie/index.php/2010/

    and the about page is going to http://www.photoblog.ie/index.php/2010/Photoblog.ie/about/
    it should be going to http://www.photoblog.ie/index.php/about/

    Looks like the theme has hard coded links in to the archive and about pages, as opposed to using the wordpress functions (that avoids problems like this happening :) )

    Hope this helps!


  • #6
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    I'm an old hand at Wordpress and moving sites; I could probably fix it in an hour or two. Email me or tweet me if you still need help.


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  • #7
    dinneenp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,154 ✭✭✭dinneenp


    Hi,
    Now the About page doesn't work; it just loads the homepage/latest post!
    http://photoblog.ie/index.php/about


  • #8
    TinyExplosions
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,860 ✭✭✭TinyExplosions


    dinneenp wrote: »
    Hi,
    Now the About page doesn't work; it just loads the homepage/latest post!
    http://photoblog.ie/index.php/about

    Because it's going to http://photoblog.ie/index.php/index.php/about not http://photoblog.ie/index.php/about I suspect. Also, the archive page doesn't work


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