Blog Completely “Gone” after 2.5 Upgrade

intellivision,

Here’s an example of how I need people to “dumb it down” for me. ?? I have a back-up file, but it has a .sql extension. I think that means that I only have a back-up of the database of info that I’ve been adding to the blog, so I’m not even sure your “wp-old” advice will work.

All I want/need to be able to do is to get this blog working again. VERY frustrating…especially now that my web host’s upgrades to MySQL are completed and I still get nothing but a blank page with the following URL replacing the blog home when I try and visit the site: https://graphicsoptimization.com/blog/wp-admin/upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=%2Fblog%2F

I REALLY need help. I appreciate those who have tried to help me to this point, but I think people might have to “dumb it down” for me a bit more in order for me to dig my way out of this hole that I seem to have dug for myself when innocently trying to upgrade to 2.5 on Sunday…

Thanks!

A quick follow-up.

I downloaded a copy of WordPress 2.3.3 and uploaded all of those files into a “blog_old” folder (as intellivision suggested). I then entered https://graphicsoptimization.com/blog_old/wp-admin/ and got a login/password window after a bit. I attempted to then login, but after several minutes, my browser told me it would be unable to complete the request. I also tried https://graphicsoptimization.com/blog/wp-admin/ and couldn’t even get a login/password window…as it would re-route me to https://graphicsoptimization.com/blog/wp-admin/upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=%2Fblog%2F

I am about at my wit’s end with this…as this is the first time in 3-4 upgrades with WordPress that I have experienced any problems. The only difference with the upgrade this go-around is that I think I forgot to logout of my “admin” connect in a tab in Firefox before uploading all of the 2.5 files to the server.

I am wondering if anyone knows how I might perform the upgrade step(s) at the MySQL level, since the URL route isn’t working. It seems as though there should be 1-2 other methods for getting around this upgrade problem…I’m just not smart enough related to MySQL to figure it out. My blog is grounded though…until I can get a bit more help here. My web host basically said “S.O.L.” related to the 2.5 upgrade and tech support…so you folks are about my only hope!

Thanks.

Another quick update: without any more suggestions, I threw in the towel and went back to 2.3.3. That seems to be working just fine, although I am disappointed that I haven’t been able to get 2.5 working for my blog. I’ll leave this as unresolved for now, as I’ll try and get 2.5 working again at some point in the future.

Don’t know if this will help at ALL… but, I had some trouble with the “Maintenance Mode” plugin… I used that when I upgraded, but when I tried to go to the link https://…/blogname/wp-admin/upgrade.php the screen was blank! So, I had to go in and manually delete the maintenance mode plugin from my FTP, then retype in the upgrade.php and it was fine.

Just a suggestion… ???

In the interim, I am curious to learn how I could set a “default” theme and see if I can solve the problem myself.

Ack…I would tell you that but I don’t have the exact instructions for the 2.3 version. But it should be something easy to see such as “Themes” or something similar. It’s “Design” in 2.5.

Click it and the default theme will be there for you to choose.

I was connecting just fine with 2.3.3 though, pre-upgrade to 2.5. With all the problems I have experienced, however, it makes me wish I would have hung on to 2.3.3 for a while longer…

If you’re talking about the 0.0.1 upgrades, they don’t really require a change in databses that’s why.

When I visit this page of yours: https://graphicsoptimization.com/blog/wp-admin/upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=%2Fblog%2F

I don’t get a blank page, in fact I get this message:

Can’t select database
We were able to connect to the database server (which means your username and password is okay) but not able to select the graphics_wp_1 database.

Are you sure it exists?
Does the user graphics_wp_1 have permission to use the graphics_wp_1 database?
On some systems the name of your database is prefixed with your username, so it would be like username_wordpress. Could that be the problem?

If you don’t know how to setup a database you should contact your host. If all else fails you may find help at the WordPress Support Forums.

Can you open up your cpanel and check if the SQL user graphics_wp_1 has permissions to do EVERYTHING (write, read access etc. There should be a checkbox for “all”.) to the database?

guys i’m getting a error mesg

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/mayuonli/public_html/blog/wp-includes/classes.php on line 92

in my home page https://mayuonline.com/blog

I can’t access single page.. it returns 404 error… fed up with WP 2.5

My prob solved…
I got da same prob while upgrading to WP 2.5!!!
Later I come to know from Ravidreams dat it’s a theme related issue.. use Cutline 2.1 by Chris Pearson and David Peralty.
It’s a solution for this problem!!!

Well, isn’t that a pain…

I’ve upgraded WordPress many times, don’t think I did anything differently this time. Yet I have the same issue, first really big issue ever with WordPress.

My header image is gone off the blog (yet it points to the proper file location, and the file is there, plain to see, in FileZilla and shell). Moreover, the page and footer background, found in the exact same location, with exactly the same permissions, do show up…

The admin section doesn’t find the CSS file at all, nothing at all shows up in Firefox’s WebDeveloper plugin as far as linked CSS content, which might be normal because it’s (now?) a php file reference (angle brackets changed):

[link rel='stylesheet' href='https://blog.site.com/wp-admin/css/global.css?version=2.5' type='text/css' /]
[link rel='stylesheet' href='https://blog.site.com/wp-admin/wp-admin.css?version=2.5' type='text/css' /]
[link rel='stylesheet' href='https://blog.site.com/wp-admin/css/colors-fresh.css?version=2.5' type='text/css' /]

The top and bottom links show CSS data, but the second link gives me a File not found warning message. If I type in …/wp-admin/wp-admin.css (instead of …/wp-admin/wp-admin.css?version=2.5), I get proper CSS…

The last thing I remember doing is browsing around in the admin section and noticing that there was an option to revert to the legacy colors, tried it, didn’t like it, then reverted.

Does anyone know what’s been causing this? I’ve been very trusty of WordPress upgrades, never had any glitch.

All right, so the culprit is wp-includes/general-template.php (line 1113):

function wp_admin_css_uri( $file = 'wp-admin' ) {
	if ( defined('WP_INSTALLING') ) {
		$_file = "./$file.css";
	} else {
		if ( 'css/colors' == $file || 'css/colors-rtl' == $file ) {
			global $_wp_admin_css_colors;
			$color = get_user_option('admin_color');
			if ( empty($color) || !isset($_wp_admin_css_colors[$color]) )
				$color = 'fresh';
			$color = $_wp_admin_css_colors[$color];
			$_file = $color->url;
			$_file = ('css/colors-rtl' == $file) ? str_replace('.css','-rtl.css',$_file) : $_file;
		} else {
			$_file = get_option( 'siteurl' ) . "/wp-admin/$file.css";
		}
	}
	$_file = add_query_arg( 'version', get_bloginfo( 'version' ),  $_file );

	return apply_filters( 'wp_admin_css_uri', $_file, $file );
}

I fail to see how adding ?version=2.5 (which is what the line before last does) helps in this instance. Looks like it conflicts with the .htaccess mod_rewrite options. I commented out the line, now I have a clean administration area.

I renamed my header image and updated the css accordingly, now everything is (mostly) fine.

Only glitch left, the dashboard doesn’t update the incoming links, plugins, or development blog boxes. I also have three JavaScript JQuery errors, which are probably related. Sounds like something went wrong, and that I need to reinstall my blog from scratch… EDIT: The errors disappeared on browser restart. Might have been some cached files.

Wham. Top banner image gone again, even with the changed name. And the CSS file for the admin section gives me a 404 even without the ?version=2.5 now. Something’s going on on my server.

Mmmh, turns out it was Firefox’s browser cache. Everything seems to be fixed by clearing the cache in Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Private Data -> Clear now…