Anyone familar with Wordpress?

[Minifig]

I used to run an old blog, and I'm thinking about resurrecting it.

The problem?

I'd like to hide all the older entries. The last one I wrote was in 2008.

:shifty:.

I'm thinking of doing a complete over haul of the site and just... re-doing it completely and doing a whole new .. scheme.

But, I'd like to hide the site's actual older posts.

Does anyone know how to do this?

[RoomKid]

Delete them?

[Minifig]

I'd like to keep them around as.. well.. I wrote them.. and they're sort of a journal.. and they're kind of amusing to me.

They're A LOT of them too.

[Colin-uk Veteran]

backup old posts.

remove posts.

add new posts.

:p

[RoomKid]

What theme are you using?

So basically, you want the posts created in 2008 hidden on the front page only right?

[primexx]

you can just make them all drafts or private.

[Cupcakes]

Go into PhpMyAdmin. Select the posts you want to remove, export the SQL file. Then drop them from the table once you've exported them.

Voila.

If you ever want to bring them back, all you'd have to do is import that SQL file.

[lnmnky]

you can just make them all drafts or private.

Yep, private them. I do this for blogs that are no longer suitable or look out of place.

[RoomKid]

Haha, I got it wrong. I though he/she didn't want the posts made before 2008 to be displayed on the front page.

[Minifig]

Thanks guys and gals.

I suppose it doesn't matter anymore though.. I tried updating to the latest version .. followed all the directions.. and when I hit refresh on my site... all I get is a white page on my site. :(

I think I destroyed my site.

I'll have to ask my brother who helped me set it up in the first place what I did wrong.

[Cupcakes]

You didn't destroy anything, just sounds like something either didn't get fully updated or bad permissions.

Did you try upgrading via the backend / automatic way or did you manually upload via FTP?

PS - If you have aim, send me an IM to jordanriane and I can probably help you out with it.

I r wordpress pr0. ;). 6 years under my belt of being able to screw up wordpress every way possible :D

[Minifig]

Backend Via FTP.

And I added you to AIM.

[Cupcakes]

Yeah, I can guarantee that the server you're on hit their memory wait/max time out and you have partially uploaded folders and/or wrong permissions.

http://wordpress.org/latest.zip -- Manually upload. Don't need to worry about it overwriting anything, and you can always skip the wp-content directory.

Next time you want to auto upgrade, I highly recommend you deactivate all plugins first. You might have a greater chance of a successful upgrade.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

I r wordpress pr0

Sorry, that just made me laugh. In a good way :)

[Minifig]

Yeah, I can guarantee that the server you're on hit their memory wait/max time out and you have partially uploaded folders and/or wrong permissions.

http://wordpress.org/latest.zip -- Manually upload. Don't need to worry about it overwriting anything, and you can always skip the wp-content directory.

Next time you want to auto upgrade, I highly recommend you deactivate all plugins first. You might have a greater chance of a successful upgrade.

Thats.. what I did .. D: I think I forgot to disable plugins though.. and thats what screwed up. :(

And the server is my brothers own server. It'll never time out unless I specify time out time.

[Cupcakes]

Ah I thought you meant "backend" like through Wordpress "FTP") which I just said to try actually using an FTP program. :3

Anyway I saw your PM; You can IM me. I'm on. Probably for about ~30 more mins, so feel free to hit me up if you still need halp :)

[Minifig]

It.. doesn't show you as .. online. o.O

[Cupcakes]

Ah bull poopy, I forgot I have it set as list-only. *sets public*

[RoomKid]

Thanks guys and gals.

I suppose it doesn't matter anymore though.. I tried updating to the latest version .. followed all the directions.. and when I hit refresh on my site... all I get is a white page on my site. :(

I think I destroyed my site.

I'll have to ask my brother who helped me set it up in the first place what I did wrong.

I get that a lot when I manually update my site. Just be sure to have your databases protected.

[Cupcakes]

It was an issue with his plugins; He renamed the folder and his site was back to functioning again :)