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Well, that looked too darned easy. What if you did something
wrong? You could have used the wrong userID/passwords
you might have typed in the wrong things. There’s lots of different ways
people go off the “chosen path.” I’m going to show you some ways
you can fix things so you can re-install WordPress. The first thing
you need to do is get back out to the cPanel.
That’s out at https: colon slash slash, your user name,
dot t, dot southcentral, dot edu, colon 2083
Put in your user name and password
Notice the secure site warning
did not come up this time.
I’m going to go down to the Database area
and go into the program called “phpMyAdmin”.
You can see in here that I have two databases.
One is wordpress and this is all the tables
installed by WordPress. If things aren’t working and you need to
re-install, then you basically
can come down this list and select “Check All"
and “With Selected” choose “drop”
phpMyAdmin will ask you, “Do you really want to?” And I’ll say “Yupper! I really do."
and phpMyAdmin just dropped (deleted) all the tables.
So, if you go back and look at the WordPress database
you can see that I still have
Ahhh,,,,, I expected these to be gone...
Ahh, it hasn’t refreshed the page yet. Let’s refresh this. (CTRL r)
There we go, all the tables are gone
and now I can do a new install of WordPress.
If I go out to the site...
I’m going to make a new tab
firstname last initial
and just to the regular site slash blog
You can see that the WordPress information is gone.
The WordPress files are still out there. We have to go to FileZilla
The other thing you can do is go up here
and you can highlight the “blog” folder on the server side of FileZilla
and choose “delete”. That will delete all the WordPress files out on the server.
If this file structure got corrupted, you might have to go back
this second step and delete all the files.
That is going to delete all the WordPress files out on the server.
Then, I’d go back (on my local machine)
probably re-install
WordPress, either downloading a new zip file
and unzip it, rename the file from “WordPress” to “blog”
and then FTP it back up to the server.
Re-FTP this back up and go through the process all over again.
So, just to summarize. What you need to do is:
First go out to cPanel, go to phpMyAdmin,
and delete all the tables from the database.
The second thing you can do is
using FileZilla, go out and delete all the WordPress files, including the folder named “blog”.
Just delete the whole blog folder. And then start from scratch.
Either download a new zip file from WordPress.org,
which might be a good idea. Unzip it and rename it “blog”.
(It will originally unzip with the name “wordpress”.)
or, just re-FTP this blog folder from your local computer up to
the server. We will let it do it’s thing.
Then, I’ll go through the process and re-install.
You can see that you can create a complete website that is editable by your
client in under 15 minutes.
You can also spend the next several years learning how to
enhance WordPress. You can create your own
themes, widgets, and all kind of great things
with WordPress.