Re: PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

2014-04-15 Thread Tyson Sawyer
We weighed the effort an uncertainty of fixing what we had with the effort and certainty of starting over. Then we tried a few tools for migrating a Wordpress site's domain/host name and the plug-in that is supposed to dynamically rewrite the domain name for multi-hosted sites. When none of them

PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

2014-04-14 Thread Tyson Sawyer
My wife and I recently upgraded our web presence. I've had the j3.org domain since 1996, but have never done much with other than post a few files from time to time and routing my email through it. We chose a hosted Wordpress service since it seems to be so well supported, mature and have lots

Re: PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

2014-04-14 Thread Ted Roche
On 04/14/2014 09:50 AM, Tyson Sawyer wrote: Wordpress seems to embed the sites URL in EVERYTHING. WTF! What is wrong with leaving the host name out to access the files from the current host? I admit that I've not played much with web pages since HTML 2 or so and most of my experience is

Re: PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

2014-04-14 Thread Brian Chabot
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/14/2014 09:50 AM, Tyson Sawyer wrote: Wordpress seems to embed the sites URL in EVERYTHING. WTF! What is wrong with leaving the host name out to access the files from the current host? Like many things in WordPress,

Re: PHP/Wordpress URL change broken

2014-04-14 Thread Tyson Sawyer
Thanks very much for the feed back. It confirms what we are dealing with. I'm not sure when the last back-up was, we will check. We will do an other backup so as to not dig deeper. Then we will evaluate trying to fix vs. just rebuilding from scratch. From scratch might be viable since most of