Can anyone give me a clue here? I have no ideas….
Have you tried:
– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
– switching to the Twenty Ten theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
I did #1 and #2. I am using Dreamweaver for my FTP so I am unsure how to do that. Can you give me a resource for it? I am also going to uninstall all inactive plugins that we don’t use since they are just up there doing nothing. I was keeping them as reference. Is there a change they could be messing with the site.
The thing that bugs me is that when you are logged into the site you see everything fine but if you are not then it looks all crazy.
In Dreamweaver, you can switch to “Remote View” to manipulate the files directly on the server. Try simply renaming the wp-content/plugins folder to something like wp-content/old-plugins temporarily.
I fixed the problem and wanted to share it with those of you on this thread so you won’t have to deal with it in case this happens to you. I installed a caching plugin last year called WP Super Cache. It basically caches the whole site regularly in an effort to speed up the response time on the site. It created a directory OUTSIDE of the regular WP directories. When I uninstalled it (because it sucked) it left the folder with all of the current cache as a remnant on my server.
For some unknown reason it was defaulting non-registered users to that folder. I must have tweaked some plugin or WP setting that triggered it. Lesson learned, stay away from this plugin.
Thank you all again for your inputs and help. I really appreciate it.
