I just created my wordpress blog and I'm completely new at this. I changed my theme and it all worked fine and my new theme was being displayed. I wanted to go back in to my admin today to continue to build the blog and i got a blank page when I logged into wordpress admin from the login page. I thought maybe I was incorrectly logging in so I tried forgot password and it won't accept any of my info including my email address as if I didn't even have an account, yet my site is being displayed and I know I do in fact have one. Totally confused. Any suggestions would be helpful. I tried looking through the forum but didn't find something that I saw as specifically fixing this. Thanks in advance.
Blank admin screen and related problem (8 posts)
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djmconsultingservices
Posted 1 year ago # -
using ftp rename your theme to some other name and then try log in see if still have same problem
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Posted 1 year ago #Thanks. Okay, I tried that and now my blog home page is blank and I still get a blank admin screen too.
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do still have default twenty ten theme in your wp-content/themes
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Posted 1 year ago #Yes, I do
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then the default theme should have opened
Have you tried:
1. deleting/renaming your .htaccess. it's possible that a .htaccess rule could be the source of the problem.
2. deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
3. switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems? If you don't have access to your admin panel, access your server via FTP or SFTP, navigate to /wp-content/themes/ and rename the directory of your currently active theme. This will force the Default theme (Twenty Ten theme) to activate and hopefully rule-out a theme-specific issue
4. resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
5. re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress?
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Posted 1 year ago #Okay, thanks for the steps. I never created an .htaccess file and just for good measure, I looked for it, could not find it and spoke with someone from godaddy who's hosting my site and they said I do not have one.
I finally just decided to start from scratch. I deleted everything from the server including the mysql database and decided to start from scratch. This has still not worked, but I think I might know why. Based on other advice on one of these forums it said that wordpress blogs being hosted by godaddy should be done on a linux server, so I switched last night. I then re-created a new mysql database and it appears that the IP address it's pulling is different than the new one I received when I switched to linux hosting. I contacted godaddy about this and I'm waiting to hear back.
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greiz
Posted 1 year ago #Nothing much can be done if it's a host issue. Try to resolve it with your host and if all else fail, you might want to consider trying different hosts.
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