christineberlin

Hello,
just in case anybody ever should come across this thread of mine:
Today I finally attacked the problem again and found this helpful thread:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reinstall-wordpress-and-not-lose-content?replies=12

I felt really helpless at first, because I didn’t even understand how and where to upload which files. But then slowly slowly I understood, what FTP is and that you can access all your once over wordpress uploaded files on the FTP-server via i.e. Cyberduck or similar applications. The FTP-details you can find out from your web-hosting company, in my case 1und1 Germany.

Once I had Cyberduck running, which was difficult enough for me, I could do what is explained in the above mentioned thread.
-I downloaded WordPress again without actually installing it (as far as I understood it, because when I tried to install it, WordPress told me that I’ve got an older version of it running already and I should do an upgrade rather than newly install it).
-I deleted all wp-related files from the server via Cyberduck but not wp-content and wp-config, (not without downloading it all beforehand (drag&drop) and saving it on my computer of course).
-I uploaded all the wp-structure from the newly downloaded WordPress to the server via Cyberduck (drag&drop).
-And there was my Administrating page again in full new glory!

Now I’ll make sure I ‘ll never miss an update of wordpress again. Because I believe that was the key-problem.