Have 2 wordpress accounts. the new messed up the old

My first suggestion would be to approach this from the FTP angle. You want to see if your default theme will work. So I would suggest renaming all existing themes apart from the default theme (20/11?) using FTP and then trying to log in.

in theory, there shouldn’t be any interconnection between two separate wp installs

they can even share the same database, if their table prefix is different
– they are different, right?
– i just made a test and it’s possible, WP gives you a warning that it’s already installed, but it goes ahead… but haven’t done further testings to see all the implications of this mistake

before going any further, you should backup your database
do you have any prior backups of your db?
– unfortunately, ftp backup is not enough to restore your old site

yep, the sites seem to be unrelated..

just for the record, governlife, filezilla is a ftp program, it just copies the wordpress files and your ‘physical’ site content (themes, plugins, uploads)

all the data (posts, links, comments, options) resides inside the mySql database
..to do a database backup you need to use phpMyAdmin (from your domain control panel), or use some plugin to do it

the only reason i can come up with to one install mess with the other would be if you used the same database and the same prefix for both installs

have you tried another browser?

well, if you got your admin back, than that’s good news 🙂

once this happened to me, wordpress being up to date and the ‘upgrade’ message still appearing… minor bug, browser cache problem, donnou why this happens nor how it’s solved…

you can put this code into your theme’s functions.php and that warning will disappear

function hide_update_notice() {
	remove_action( 'admin_notices', 'update_nag', 3 );
}
add_action( 'admin_notices', 'hide_update_notice', 1 );