vkaryl

Wow. I’m afraid I haven’t any more advice – I’m not even using 2.1, and haven’t ever personally had a problem like this with 2.0….

Wait, that’s not really true. I had exactly this problem some time back – but it wasn’t just wp, it was everywhere trying to login; sometimes it did just what you’re describing, sometimes it simply refreshed the login page…. but that was an upgrade to Zone Alarm Suite that caused it, and returning to ZA free fixed it…. So unless that points you in a new direction, I’m no help at all, sorry.

If you have access to phpmyadmin, the first thing to do is get a dump (backup) of your database. Good tutorial on that here: http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/backup/ but if that’s too much for under this sort of stress, get back with bluehost and ask them to do it for you.

Note that there is a chance that you will have some corruption in the database. Hopefully not. But be prepared. Another thing to ask bluehost: if they have a backup of your data etc. BEFORE the date you did the fantastico upgrade.

Once you accomplish those steps, then we can think about where to go next.

I’ve never used the plugin. Did it come with a set of “how-tos” as far as installing? Looks like it didn’t create the table in the database, from the errors. Some plugins give you a text-file of stuff to quote into the sql query screen, which adds the appropriate tables/rows/fields to the database. If you didn’t get something like that, then you might check with the plugin author.

And some plugins will create the table etc. needed when you activate them – but it doesn’t look like this one did.

If you’re going to use any of the spam stopper plugins, you’re going to lose (in the 2.0 branch, don’t know about 2.1) the ability to moderate (other than by accessing the plugin screens). In order to return some of the functionality of normal moderation of comments, you’ll need to download and install the sk2-moderate plugin from http://blog.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/sk2-moderate-plugin/

Also, please read the instructions in the lower part of his page – some of it’s fairly important.

This sort of error is a signal that you need to contact your host provider…. it’s something either they need to explain to you how to handle, or they need to handle on their end.

Only thing you could try (since you seem to feel the host has dumped you on your own) would be to repair the particular table referred to, or in your case try repairing the whole database.

But really, you need to get pissy with the host – it IS something on their end; it’s NOT your job to fix, and anything you do may not only not help, it might make things worse.

Well…. try 2.0.8 first. I wouldn’t necessarily advise anyone to go to 2.1….

Hmmm. Well, maybe try a different plugin for images? Only one I unequivocally recommend is Image Manager from http://soderlind.no/…. and I also recommend Windows Live Writer as a blog client – http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/ – absolutely the simplest image insertion possible.