White screen of death – Pretty Links

I went and found a backup on the server from a few hours before and uploaded that to the server

Please , explain , do you upload the content or core files ????

You might try deactivating your theme by just renaming the “themes” directory (in wp-content) – you don’t have to completely delete it. At that point, you’ll get a white screen on teh front end, but you might be able to get into your backend.

If that doesnt work, try the same thing with your plugins directory (just rename it). If you still can’t get the login screen (at yoursite.com/wp-login.php) to load, you’ll have to figure out what is wrong with your backups (or your backup restore process).

404 pages in WordPress are most often caused because of a change in the permalink structure of the site. If a site owner changes the permalink structure of their WP blog, they’re likely going to end up with incoming links pointing to pages that are no longer located at a particular address .
Goto Dashboard -> General and check :
WordPress address (URL) and Site address (URL) , they must reflect your domain .

Let’s recap :
1)Plugin folder renamed
2)Theme folder renamed .
And you can’t access you site Home and admin-panel ??

1) Core files wp-admin and wp-includes folder .
2)Some plugins save configurations in the database or even create custom tables . Try to explore your database . Of course the plugin developer can provide more information .

I think given the fact that after the first restore, you could access your front page, it’s a pretty safe bet that something went wrong the second time you tried restoring.

You could try reinstalling wordpress via FTP:

1. Download from http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
2. Unzip it
3. Upload everything except wp-content to your server (you should upload into the directory that contains wp-config.php, and you should choose “replace” when asked to)

Doing that will give you a fresh wordpress install, with access to your old database. If you’ve still got the plugin and theme folders renamed, there’s no chance of interference there, so if you still can’t log in (you’ll still get a white screen on the front page because your themes folder is renamed – just go straight to http://www.nudephotopro.com/blog/wp-login.php), then there has to be something wrong with your database. (Ok, to be thorough, it could still be drop-ins, but those are unlikely unless you were using a caching plugin).

Try to edit the permalink directly on the database.
Login your database via your webinterface and locate (say your prefix table is wp_ ) wp_options table .
Two records define the permalinks :
1) optionID 1 (siteurl)
2)and optionID 37 (home) .
Edit the “option value” of these fields to your domain .