redraider90

so yes, it shows the Display Name in the middle of the page with the option to log out, but not in the upper right corner where you would often see it.

subscriber, but it doesn’t show in the upper corner when logged in like my username (as admin role) does.

WELL GUESS WHAT!! MISSION ACCOMPLISHED! I got this done. I will say that the permalinks issue was not entirely inconsequential or irrelevant. It partially was.

But that part about the Endurance Page Cache was the main thing. How that guy ever figured that out I have no idea, but I am indebted. I will put down my small doco for this approach that worked. There have to be scads of others having this issue.

1) Backed up and rewrote htaccess file at the root WP level.
2) changed the endurance page cache file name — giving it a bogus ext in the wp-content root.
3) deactivated all the plugins
4) commenced with the WP 6 install, successfully no less.

After which, I have one by one reinstalled and activated my plugins. I had one acting up, causing the download issue of PHP files on one sole link! In a Paid Subscription plugin for payments. I got that fixed though.

I am now updating themes, plugins and the like that have been sidelined for 4 years now. Even applying a long overdue bootstrap theme to this site!

Thanks, folks!

I did find ONE BIG discovery on this, and I am not sure how to fix it.
If I click on my permalinks link, it messed up the site and causes PHP files to start being downloaded.
But what happens is it alters the htaccess file in the root to look like the following:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /Site/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /Site/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# php -- BEGIN cPanel-generated handler, do not edit
# Set the “ea-php74” package as the default “PHP” programming language.
<IfModule mime_module>
  AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php74___lsphp .php .php7 .phtml
</IfModule>
# php -- END cPanel-generated handler, do not edit

<strong># BEGIN WordPress
AddHandler application/php-56 .php
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /Site/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /Site/index.php [L]</strong>
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

That last part in bold (Between the strong tags) gets added, and should not be there. Any way to work around that?

BTW, addendum: I tried this recommendation in full
https://themanifest.com/web-design/blog/how-to-fix-broken-permalinks-wordpress#:~:text=You%20can%20fix%20broken%20permalinks,issues%20on%20a%20WordPress%20site.
and it was not successful! I deactivated all plugins and tried resetting permalinks and it continues to break the site and add that 5.6PHP reference in the wrong place. Any ideas here?

• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by redraider90.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 9 months ago by redraider90.

I am using PHP 7.4.27 on this 4.9 build. So I should check the download archives somewhere and see if ver 5.3 is supported by this ver of PHP? Is that what I do?

Let me look at that and see if I can recreate it on my end.
Thank you for the time and suggestions!

Ok, sorry. Thank you for the acknowledgement of the post here.

I was referencing this link on the concatenation part. I know different DB platforms run concat functions slightly different sometimes.

https://www.w3schools.com/sql/trysql.asp?filename=trysql_select_alias_column2&ss=-1

But, while I thought I had conveyed this the first time, as in above, I am indeed trying to concatenate a “first_name” field and a “last_name” field as a faux column, “NAME.”

For example I can choose
`SELECT * FROM wp_usermeta
WHERE meta_key= ‘street_no’ `

OR
`SELECT * FROM wp_usermeta
WHERE meta_key= ‘street_name’ `

But I cannot seem to concatenate the two and get results. Either of those meta_keys in the WordPress usermata table (one of the reasons I asked if this was maybe a WordPress issue as I was running this in PHPMyAdmin) will render a lengthy result set.

So I hope this clarifies it some and if I should go to a separate forum please let me know. If there’s a similar forum within the WP support, please inform me of that as well.
Thank you!