I recently inherited a Wordpress website that needed updating to the latest version of Wordpress and a general cleanup.

Wordpress has gone through a lot of changes in the past few months and one thing I had to get my head around was a totally new editor.

But the users of the site find the new editor difficult to use so asked me to reinstall the old 'classic' editor.

But first I had to download the site and the database and install it locally.

One thing that I had to workaround was the site uses https redirects which wernt available on my localhost/127.0.0.1 so these are the settings i had to alter to get it to work.

ini_set('display_errors', 0);
define('WP_CACHE', false);
define('WPCACHEHOME', '/home/andy/www/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/wp-super-cache/' );
define('DB_NAME', 'wp1');
define('WP_DEBUG', false);
define('FS_METHOD', 'direct' );
define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', false);

also in the database are 2 settings which I needed to change to get the site to work

siteurl http://127.0.0.1:86
home http://127.0.0.1:86

Once these were set, the site worked, but it was a struggle to work this out.

Next up, updating all the plugins, finding a new theme and disabling unused plugins. Also learning the difference with Elementor, Gutenberg and other things that have changed.

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