I think you need to reinstall them so they can use the database.
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This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by
kmessinger.
Or disable them one at a time to find out which one(s) are causing the problem.
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This reply was modified 9 years, 8 months ago by
kmessinger.
Thanks kmessinger. The theme is a child theme of “Portfolio Press” from the WP theme repository.
I have already identified 2 plugins which interfere with the media library: Google Forms plugin and WP Jquery Lightbox. When I disable these two, the media library displays its full contents. I have not yet done the same for the login issues.
All of these plugins are from the wp plugin repository and played well with each other, and the theme before my unfortunate overwriting of the site’s wp-config.php file. I would prefer not to get rid of any of them. If possible, I would like to find out what’s causing them to conflict now with the login screen and the media library where they didn’t before.
Strange. Check the wp-config.php for mistakes but probably none. https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php
Then delete those plugins from the control panel. Install them again. Most plugins make additions to the database. Hopefully deleting and installing will fix the problem.
Thanks kmessinger. After turning the plugins off one-by-one, I found that “Mappress Easy Google Maps brought the login screen back but the login was rejected, even though I knew it was right. Renaming the plugins folder got me in.
Do you recommend I delete and re-install all plugins or just look for the troublemakers?
By the way, the wp-config file is from a brand new installation of WP. The only edits I made were the DB name, user and password.
Could this possibly be a memory issue? I’m wondering if I were to boost the memory allocation of WP if it might resolve the issue.
Memory issues don’t usually manifest themselves like that but it doesn’t hurt to increase the memory.
Just do the plugins that cause trouble. You can also check the database for problems.
Thanks kmessinger. I’ll start to delete and replace the plugins with problems.
Regarding the database, I did a google search and there wasn’t much info to tell me how to identify problems in the database from phpMyAdmin. I found no articles that would tell me how to spot a problem in one or more of the tables. Closest I came was this article. About ⅓ of the way down, under the heading “Optimizing your WordPress Database in phpMyAdmin,” it talks about “Optimize Table” and “Repair Table.” Would these be an option?
I deactivated, de-installed and re-installed 3 plugins. Seems to have solved the problem. Thanks for the help.
I’m trying to get more comfortable with github to avoid these issues in the future.
The “Mark as resolved” checkbox is not showing up for me. Otherwise I would have clicked it.
Done and glad you are up and at ’em.