Typically those who note this issue have failed to update WordPress, their Theme and Plugins and have been hacked due to poor site maintenance.
so what shall I do tell a programmer to fix the prob? Nothing I can do myself?
Karl
try:
– switching to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.
– resetting the plugins folder by using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
– renaming or deleting the .htaccess file by using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides. If you delete it make a backup first.
– re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder from a fresh download of WordPress. by using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.
Hi keesiemeijer,
I tried all four apart from the first one and problem persists.
I am afraid of trying the first one, if I’m able to login then how am I going to switch back to normal? Probably my theme is customized one.
Karl
I am afraid of trying the first one, if I’m able to login then how am I going to switch back to normal?
You can always switch back to your theme after you can login.
The only change I made is change of web hosting company.
Was it after changing hosts that you get the 404?
Hi,
ok I have 3 folders in /blog/wp-content/themes
I renamed all of them but prob persists. There’s also in this same folder index.php file. When I renamed them the blog itself returned blank page but it’s normal this I think.
Was it after changing hosts that you get the 404?
Don’t really know, I changed host couple days ago. However few days before changing host, from my older webhost I received email that my site had malware, because I had outdatad wp scripts and wp version, however they were not referring to this site but to my other add on domains I had on same hosting account. Those domains have wordpress blogs too and they work fine.
I had logged to all my wordpress including this one and made all updates to everything. So probably problem occured after chaning host not before.
Karl