The comments feature of our Wordpress blog has not been working since we changed servers a couple of weeks ago. I spent a few hours trying to fix the problem and was not able to find a good solution online..

However, I’ve just fixed the comments problem and thought other Wordpress owners may find it useful.

Here are steps I took.

1. Backup your database. I downloaded the complete sql file from phpmyadmin

2. Make sure you have a copy of your template files on your harddrive and save any mods, plugins you have added.

3. Via Fantastico Remove your Wordpress installation and then immediately reinstall it.

4. Make sure you have a blank .htaccess file to your root directory and make it writeable 666
That’s the key!..

5. Re-upload your Template Files and plugins

6. Goto PhpMyAdmin and Drop All the Current Wordpress Tables

7. Using SQL upload or paste in your complete sql file.

8. Login to Wordpress Admin and configure your Permalinks settings again.

Everything should work fine now..

If you find this info helpful please feel free to give our Escati Blog a link back..

Sincerely,

Dan Nickerson
Escati Webmaster
Do You Have Pagellan?

I thought you might like some background information about our Escati websites…

Escati is owned 50-50 by myself and Dan Nickerson from Sanford, Maine, USA…Dan has a very successful website Got Zip…Which you should consider joining as it has great potential…

http://www.got-zip.com

Dan has been webmaster of Escati since 2001 and is doing a great job, as there is a lot of daily work involved…

Escati was started on 9th August, 1996 on my 50th birthday. The word Escati comes from ESCAPE to THAILAND, taking the first 3 letters from ESCape and turning around the TAI of Thailand to ATI, making ESCATI which was a unique word on the internet in 1996…We think Escati also means…Eke Out…Make something go further…In the local language of the Basque Country in Northern Spain…Daniel Escati wrote to us from Buenos Aires, Argentina with more information…

http://www.escati.net/01/2006/19/guest-writer-from-argentina

My good friend Andrew…Escaped to Thailand in December 1992 and I Escaped from UK in 1995…We shared a house together with his Thai girlfriend in Hat Yai…The internet arrived in Hat Yai in July 1996 and we were the third customers in Hat Yai to sign up for a connection…Andrew said let’s build a website all about Thailand and he thought up the name Escati while he was sitting on the lavatory…

Andrew knew nothing about the internet but had written games software in the UK…With the use of a basic book and lots of common sense he taught himself to write HTML and the Escati website was born. The connection in those days was very slow and used to cut many times. One had to be very patient and it was expensive too, compared to the costs, today, in Thailand. I did lots of the research for the information and wrote much of the script and helped whenever Andrew needed it…

Andrew also created our Smile-A-Day World website. He got the idea when the first ‘Smilies’ appeared in 1999. Andrew was a clever guy and he had a photographic memory and lots of imagination, as you will see throughout Smile-A-Day World…

http://www.smile-a-day.com

Andrew spent thousands of hours building the Escati websites, during nearly 5 years and sadly, he died of heart failure in May 2001…I could not do what Andrew had been doing, I don’t have the skills, so I went from Thailand to USA to meet Dan who had been helping Andrew since 1996. I needed Dan’s assistance to take over from Andrew, as he was familiar with Escati and had watched Andrew build it since 1996…

Today Escati is alive and well. Our traffic is rising and Dan is currently changing the site format to reflect our new image…

We look forward to giving you plently of reasons why you can…Escape to Thailand in the future and we shall continue to give you the best service in the years ahead…

Join us & Escape to Thailand…The Land of Happy Smiles…

http://www.escati.com/thailand_of_escati.htm

Keep smiling!

Yours truly

Welcome to…Escape to Thailand with Dennis Peacock…Another Escati website giving you lots of information about Thailand…Where I have lived since 15th March, 1995… 

My main experience of Thailand is the way the Thai People are all bonded together by the…Common Thread of Buddhism…They are not strangers to each other…As we are in the West… This is further re-inforced by the Example and Leadership of Their King and The Royal Family…

It is this asset…That gives Thailand it’s unique identity in the World and which appeals to Foreigners who visit here…I feel safe and priveledged to live here…I have great confidence in the future Prosperity of this Nation…

Join us & Escape to Thailand…The Land of Happy Smiles…

http://www.escati.com/thailand_of_escati.htm

Keep smiling!

Yours truly