– switching to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.
– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.
For the first thing you mentioned:
– switching to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.
Would that mean just renaming Thesis (the theme I use) to….what exactly?
thanks
Use FTP to rename the Thesis folder to anything, like old_thesis and see if that works to force wordpress to use the default theme.
If not, the upgrade didn’t complete, so do a manual upgrade and upload new wordpress core files and folders, but don’t overwrite wp-content or wp-config.php
http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress
Here’s what I did:
– renamed the theme
– reset the plugins folder
– was successfully able to access the back end of my site (but the site itself appeared blank
– Upgraded wordpress. It “successfully” upgraded.
– Site doesnt work and Im back to not being able to access the back end
What should I try now?
Yes I did. And as soon as I did, I was able to log into my wp-admin via the web/wordpress, which I wasnt able to do before resetting.
So I reset, upgraded, put the plugins back the way they were (per the instructions) and now I’m having the same problem again and cant log into wordpress.
Reset the plugin folder again and leave it that way. You have a plugin that is screwing up things. Get the site back and then reinstall the plugins one at a time until the site crashes again.
I just reset the folder (you can take a look http://theentrepreneurconnection.com ) and now the site is just blank. No theme, or content, or anything.
Suggestions?
Thank you very much for your help, btw
Do you have a theme named default in wp-content/themes/? Or just the renamed thesis theme?
yes, I do have a theme named default
When I selected the renamed thesis theme, the content reappeared. So it looks like all is back to normal, for now, minus the plugins. I dont have enough brain power to reinstall them all now – so that will come later 🙂
Thank you!!
Good that it works now. Reinstall the plugins one at a time from inside WP, and then delete the old renamed plugins folder….
