Title: Complete WordPress Breakdown
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Complete WordPress Breakdown

 *  [thekraken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thekraken/)
 * (@thekraken)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-wordpress-breakdown/)
 * I wish I could come up with a more descriptive title than that, but I can’t. 
   I was using WordPress 2.0 on [http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress](http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress)
   when today I experienced a complete breakdown in function. I had just finished
   deleting a pingback to one of my own entries via the default admin CP and was
   proceeding to change one small thing in the WPress options, I clicked to confirm
   the changed option (I changed the website url, not blog url, location from horrorsnotdead.
   com/wpress to just horrorsnotdead.com) and without seeing a confirmation page
   the 404s started to come.
 * Each one was some variation of this:
    The requested URL /wp-login.php?redirect_to
   =%2Fwpress%2Fwp-admin%2F does not exist.
 * The Control Panel still looked the same, but anything I clicked brought up a 
   corresponding 404 error. The blog itself also looked radically different from
   its template, without me ever altering anything in the template or any files 
   other than the aforementioned deleted pingback.
 * I can no longer access the Control Panel in any capacity. I upgraded from 2.0
   to 2.1 following the excellent instructions linked to in the sticky with the 
   hope of a fix, but noticed absolutely no change whatsoever.
 * Does anyone have any idea as to what happened? I’m not at all fluent with wordpress
   so I have no clue how to fix this. Any suggestions at all would be appreciated.

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-wordpress-breakdown/#post-333433)
 * The URL change did it.
 * Follow this and change BOTH values to be the same as they were:
    [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/)
 * then if you want to alter things, post back and we’ll whizz though it.
 * It’s all very curable 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [thekraken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thekraken/)
 * (@thekraken)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-wordpress-breakdown/#post-333435)
 * Ahhh, thank you very, very much. I had a feeling that was what caused it, but
   I didn’t know the first clue as to how to fix it.
 * Again, thanks a ton.
 *  Thread Starter [thekraken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thekraken/)
 * (@thekraken)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-wordpress-breakdown/#post-333438)
 * Actually, just another, very minor problem. Doesn’t deserve a thread dedicated
   to it on its own, but I figured I’d throw it out there in case someone knew the
   cause. If you go to
 * [http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2006/02/06/nightbreed/](http://horrorsnotdead.com/wpress/2006/02/06/nightbreed/)
 * You’ll notice that the sidebar is pushed below the post’s content. I’ve had this
   happen occasionally and usually just change whatever the last thing I edited 
   about the post and it goes back to normal, but no such luck this time. Any ideas?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [thekraken](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thekraken/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-wordpress-breakdown/#post-333438)
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