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If I try to activate Yoast SEO plugin I am getting this error message.
Warning: include(/home/wurlitze/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/inc/interface-wpseo-wordpress-integration.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/wurlitze/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/vendor/composer/ClassLoader52.php on line 186

Also as explained earlier, the Plugin button on the sidebar does not have any dropdown menu so I can’t uninstall or reinstall or delete from the dashboard.

Any ideas?

O.K. this is where I am up to.
I did the manual upload and have the site back, but the plugins were missing and there is no Add Plugin option when I hover over the Plugin link on the sidebar in wp-admin.
I noticed on the server there was no folder called plugins when I was about to upload the new one but did it anyway, however there was a folder in there called plugins_bk (whatever it is). When I uploaded plugins I have just the default Hello Dolly and Askit (or whatever). So I looked in plugins_bk and found the missing plugins listed. so I changed plugins folder to plugins2 and renamed plugins_bk to plugins. I now have all the plugins visible but I still don’t have an Add Plugin option anywhere in wp-admin. Also all my plugins are deactivated. Have I missed a file somewhere. Do I need to upload the Index file in the Content folder?

Hi James.
SUCCESS!!!
I am not sure what file did the trick but I did reload wp-admin and wp-includes and it didn’t change. But then I uploaded all ‘loose’ files in public-html EXCEPT! wp-config. And it came back to life.
Many thanks.
The File Manager wouldn’t work but FileZilla worked a treat.
Just a footnote though….Telling a novice to “delete all the files on your server” is maybe not what you had in mind exactly. 🙂

Sorry James I didn’t see your reply, I should have refreshed the page! OK so now that I found the backup zip file, can I not extract it on my own computer and just upload the corrupted file (though I am not sure which file that might be.) I get what you are saying I am just nervous of deleting everything except the folder and file you mention. It sounds rather drastic. I don’t doubt what you are saying, but I don’t have a clear picture of what I am actually doing. Also, if it is a backup would I be o.k. uploading everything, given that it is a backup. It’s ten days old but it’s the structure I am scared of destroying not the actual content as I can easily put that up to date.

Excuse my ignorance but it is several years since I installed my website and haven’t given it much thought since, so I am a bit rusty/clueless. Download wordpress to where? I can use FTP but you say to delete your copies of everything on the server except wp-config. and wp-content. Presumably this is only files within wordpress folders that I delete and replace? I then (I’m guessing) transfer across all wordpress files that I deleted back to the server folders except wp-content and w-config?

I did find the backup file location but I can’t get to it as the website is not recognised.

Hmm. I fixed it but not quite sure what did it. Oh well 🙂

That’s the sort of idea lee but maybe a bit more specific about what is stored where,etc.
I have looked at the Moving WordPress information and think I followed it, but obviously there is some snag.
Ok let me break it down a bit then.

Something is requesting a header image, which is then displayed on the main page. Or should do, but it isn’t.
So what is requesting the image? (maybe the address in that file is wrong so it can’t find an image).
Where should the image be?.(maybe it is missing).
Activating another theme does not resolve the problem. So the theme itself isn’t where the ‘glitch’ is.

Looks like I am going to have to read the Codex all the way through until I crack it.