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Tag a question "installation" if you are having trouble completing the initial installation of CiviCRM on Drupal, Joomla, or WordPress. If you encounter problems while using the system, use tags that are more specific to the features affected.

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Civi dashboard and menus won't display after install

To further expand on Chris' Answer I'll add one last thiught. If WP is installed in it's own directory as detailed here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory CiviCRM will …
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Cannot separate CiviCRM database tables from Wordpress tables on installation

I'll add this as an answer - The Recheck requirements button resets the DB credentials. I expect this happened between testing when we implemented defaulting to using the WP Database and the credent …
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Wordpress 4.7.x Installer issue

There is an issue in the installer for 4.7. I created https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-19279 to track the issue. With Christian's help I created a PR - https://github.com/civicrm/civicr …
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new install on wordpress 6 fails

I was able to install 6.0 and upload the zip - but I have my server set to all 64 MB uploads. The zip file is about 38 MB. I'd suspect that something went wrong trying the admin uploader. Can you a …
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cannot access /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=civicrm-install after installing 5.28.3

Is CiviCRM already installed? Even if the DB is clean, does the wp-content/uploads/civicrm folder exist with the civicrm.settings.php file in it. The installer does not expect that to be there. You s …
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2 votes

Word Press Install Missing civicrm.settings.php; dashboard unavailable; no menus

Looks like the menus did not build correctly. I would install this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/civicrm-admin-utilities/ You can activate and it allows for a menu rebuild and a cache flush. …
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Word Press Install Missing civicrm.settings.php; dashboard unavailable; no menus

I dug further into the changes that WPE does to the file structure. It looks like the new magic method of determining the file location using [civicrm.files] is failing. See https://github.com/civicr …
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4 votes
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Menu bar missing on fresh CiviCRM on Wordpress

The issue is the way WP Engine builds the user directory structure. We have a proposed patch in : https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/8494 Until that is merged, you can use the answer list …
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Environment Settings, mismatch timezone

In testing i determined that all of the UTC offset TZ WordPress offers are invalid from a php perspective. Set the timezone to the proper php TZ (Europe/Zurich for example) and that error will go …
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CiviCRM Installer Errors - Can't change DB settings

There is an issue in the installer for 4.7. I created https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-19279 to track the issue. With Christian's help I created a PR - https://github.com/civicrm/civicr …
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What's the best practice for creating a cronuser for WordPress CiviCRM installs?

The cronuser is a CMS user, so in your case a WordPress user. I tend to give the cron user a strong password and don't use that user account for anything but cron. As far as permissions, they need a …
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How to successfully install CiviCRM w/Wordpress on WPEngine hosting

The shortest answer I have is : The issue is the way WP Engine builds the user directory structure. We have a proposed patch in : https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/8494 Until that is me …
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