The Difference Between “Fixing” and “Patching”
Have you changed your blog url or home in Settings/General and it no longer works?
Are you moving your blog to a new server/web-address?
If you answer “Yes” to either of those questions, then you need to know the difference between patching your blog to get it working and fixing your blog so that it continues to work.
No related posts.





























@Stiven
My thoughts exactly
Hey there,
Great video! I just watched and attempted it for myself, as this is the problem I’m having. However, even after changing my database entries for ‘home’ and ’siteurl’
(see
and
)
…Still no luck! I can’t view the blog, the proper address of which should be http://nataliaciolko.com/blog.
Let me know if you have any ideas about this!
Thanks,
Natalia
Natalia: Check then database connection entries in your wp-config.php file. That error almost always means one of them are wrong. Check db nane, db user, db password, and db connect.
@Natalia
Check your wp-config.php file. It seems you have an error in your database connection information. Check:
db name
db user
db password
db connect
The problem is in one (or more) of those settings.
YAY! Thanks for your help. Have a great day.
well, this video saved my life today!
thank you!
@claudio: You’re welcome.
Thank You Very much for your videos. all i know about wp is because of your video tutorials. Take a look of my site in spanish .
and again thank you very much.
Hello,
The video is not avilable on this page.
Thank you.
Thank you. That’s exactly what I needed.
Today, I messed up my entire site because of this error and I panicked. I followed this video and made no progress, but it wasn’t the video’s fault, obviously. I used the contact form to contact Mr. Free Wordpress Tutorials himself, and he provided me with a wonderful consulting session and fixed me up right. I highly highly HIGHLY recommend hiring him if this detailed blog doesn’t satisfy your questions.
Very genuinely,
Pete
The Tango Notebook
@Pete: Thanks Pete…glad we got your site back up and running.
just wanted to say a big “thank you”!!!
your video was really straight forward and allowed me to temporaily ‘patch’ the problem.
next job is to fix it.
thanks again!
Hi figaro, a quick question…
please can you point me in the right direction to a video that will instruct me on how to move my blog from its existing blog address (eg http://www.tom.co.uk/tom_website) to my domain (eg http://www.tom.co.uk)
Thanks!!!
@tom: See the “move” tag here on this site.
@figaro
thanks!!!!
Thank you! I really appreciate your help for taking the time to explain the difference between patching and fixing. This worked out smoothly and I got my blog back up in a 1/2 hour.
I used the Quick Fix method from the WP Codex, but it sounds like I should still try and use phpMyAdmin. Honestly, I downloaded it and don’t even understand how to install it on the site I’m working on—the instructions are way above my head. There’s only so much code I can understand, and I didn’t know how to set up a config file for phpMyAdmin. Does this mean I have not really fixed my website? Will I have the wp-admin not found error again?
@.tif: It just depends on how many absolute urls you have in the db to things on your own site…for example, if you entered a url in a post to another post/page on your own site, then the quick fix will not change those.
hi,
i accidentally removed wordpress url in the general settings of my site then i couldn’t access my site right after that. i followed your video 1) edited config file 2) edit the wp_options in the db and it worked. but they the time i removed the addeed code in the config file, the siteurl and home in wp_options reverted back to it’s old value.
the old value when i couldn’t access my site was http://ww.raimongonzales.com
i could access my site, but all css, themes, etc were not working. so i’m not sure if i’ll just leave the added code in the config file just to keep my site working.
hoping for a reply soon.
thanks.
raimon