jstrand
Member
Posted 7 months ago #
I created a site last year, I think using an older version of WP. The site sat unused for some months, and I'm updating it now, but find that it now asks everyone to log in with a username and password - it used to be publicly available to read, and only needed a login for registered users. People were also able to post comments before without needing a user account, but you can't even read the page anymore without a login.
I want to make the site publicly readable, but I'm not tech-savvy enough to know where to look for instructions. I checked under all of the various privacy and other settings and can't find anything that controls this. I also have never messed with any file permissions - it appears that the software updated some time in the past year and this problem happened then. How do I fix it?
sounds more like a cpanel log in box
do you have a link we can see?
also, wordpress doesn't update by itself - someone has to tell it to
jstrand
Member
Posted 7 months ago #
Okay - now it won't even let me see any of the content, only the dashboard, and I did a bunch of editing just last night. Any time I try to look at the page, it asks for my login info again, and directs me right back to the dashboard.
URL is http://www.northeastern.edu/balidialogue
The only thing I did this morning is try to install another theme and preview it, but the preview showed a blank page, so I didn't activate it. Now it's all messed up, and the options on the settings and appearance pages don't seem to address this.
jstrand
Member
Posted 7 months ago #
Found the problem - it was the Absolute Privacy plugin. I started getting a message saying the database needed to be updated, which I couldn't figure out how to do, so I deactivated it.
Now I can access most things, but it makes me log in every time I want to make a change, and it also won't let me see previews anymore, says I don't have that permission?
