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  • I changed the “home url” (not the “site url”) on my WordPress blog (www.mapliterary.org) and have lost all the theme formatting!

    More importantly, I can no longer access the dashboard at all!

    Some needed background information:
    1) I own the domain http://www.mapliterary.org
    2) I also own the domain http://www.mapliterary.com
    3) When I try to login as I used to–by going to http://www.mapliterary.com/wp-login.php I am taken to wordpress.org (the homepage)
    4) I CAN login at wordpress.com and when I do I see the following:
    A) a blog called Map Literary at mapliterary.wordpress.com that is NOT the blog I want, even if it has the same name! I can also access the dashboard of this blog, but, again, this is not the blog I need. (I think this was a blog I drafted a long time ago but never followed up on.)
    B) There is also a “linked” blog called Map Literary at http://www.mapliterary.wordpress.org but when I go to this address I am taken to wordpress.org
    C) To deepen the mystery: if I hover over my username in the upper right corner, I see two blogs in the dropdown menu, both called Map Literary. One of them leads to the draft Map Literary mentioned in (A) above, that is NOT the blog I’m interested in. As for the other one–most of the options (Dashboard, New Post, Manage Comments, Read Blog) lead me to wordpress.org (the homepage) BUT “Site Stats” works and it actually gives me the correct stats (25 thousand views!) for the blog I need to recover. The page I am taken to is:
    https://wordpress.com/#!/my-stats/?blog=23060833

    Yet another clue: when I go to http://wordpress.com/#!/my-stats/ I am given the choice of stats for two blogs. One is called “Map Literary (WP.com)”–which is NOT the blog I need; the other is called “Map Literary (Jetpack)”–which IS the blog I need to recover.

    Please help! I am very confused about whether I am using wordpress.com or wordpress.org and how http://www.mapliterary.org connects to either one. Most importantly, I need to be able to access the DASHBOARD of http://www.mapliterary.org–that’s originally where this entire problem began, when I changed the home url address (under Settings–General) from http://www.mapliterary.org to something else–I THINK I changed it to http://www.mapliterary.wordpress.com but I’m not sure…

    I will be most grateful if someone could help figure out this complicated mystery.

    I did back up the site and have access to those files, but I don’t know how to restore them…

    Thank you.

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

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    I changed the “home url” (not the “site url”) on my WordPress blog (www.mapliterary.org) and have lost all the theme formatting!

    How?

    3) When I try to login as I used to–by going to http://www.mapliterary.com/wp-login.php I am taken to wordpress.org (the homepage)

    Really? http://www.mapliterary.com/wp-login.php takes me a a bluehost page.

    4) I CAN login at wordpress.com and when I do I see the following:

    What does that have to do with anything? WordPress.com is 100% disconnected from your Multisite.

    Look… The amount of messed up this is, is a little astronomical. How new is this site? Unless you can EXACTLY roll back your changes (like with backup of the DB to restore), you’re going to want to start over.

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