oceanstarr

Thanks esmi. I just ran a search through my ftp for the term “wp” and I didn’t find anything for wordpress except in the database I created for this install and the install I recently attempted. I’m certain there is only one install.

When I did the fresh install and tried to access wpadmin through my browser, it didn’t work. I failed to save the error message and don’t recall it, but the page wouldn’t load at all until I went into cpanel and recreated the database (with the same name) at which point, I was back to my 2.3.1 load.

I followed very carefully the instructions for manual update after that. There was no easy/automatic update button on the interface – just the link to the wp update instructions. After I completed this operation, I still had the 2.3.1 page.

At this point I think perhaps my best course of action is to contact the host. Opinions?

Thank you for the idea. I was hopeful you were right about a double install. That would have been easy to fix lol

I tried to do that after the first failed update. I deleted all the wp stuff and installed the 3.2.1. At that point, I had to go back into cpanel and create my blog again. When I did that, it still popped up as 2.3.1. I don’t understand why it did this because I deleted every single file in that folder and replaced it with the new files. The time stamp of last modification didn’t change when I created the new blog, but it still says 2.3.1. Is there anywhere else wp files could be hiding? Does that come from my host? If I didn’t create the blog through cpanel, I couldn’t log into wpadmin so I’m a little lost.

I am totally comfortable with all this – I just can’t tell if my host has caused the problem or if I’m missing some trick because I’m new to the software.