Cannot log-in to admin

  • I am a non-techie with a new site. I uploaded and activated the free Flexibility3 theme. I worked on it a bit last night and everything seemed okay. Today when I try to log-in to my admin to work on the site, a white page comes up with the message to click to buy the paid version in order to remove footer links. I don’t care about the footer links but do want to be able to log-in to my site. I can find no way to eliminate this page. The log-in screen appears to flicker briefly beneath this unwanted page but then the page takes over. I have also tried to type in my log-in url directly but the same thing happens. It’s like this theme has hijacked my log-in. I had briefly used the same theme on a site that is no longer active and had no problems like this. Any ideas how to get rid of this (non-techie)? Thanks.
    https://www.dogtailsfromthebarkside.com

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  • That is super shady, you should use a different theme…

    Switch to the Twenty Ten theme by renaming – or even better, deleting – your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

    Thread Starter katied772

    (@katied772)

    How do I get back into my site to do this? I use Hostgator and uploaded the theme directly to WordPress. Remember, I am very novice at this.

    Please re-read the suggestion I posted above.

    Thread Starter katied772

    (@katied772)

    Thank you. I deleted and it worked. It just takes me a while to understand, even when you put it simply. I have always had a difficult time with WP so have stuck to static sites. Decided to give it another try since it seems everyone swears by it. I do wonder why this happened.

    Unfortunately, you picked a rather nasty theme. I’d recommend that you only download themes from https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/ They should all be quite safe.

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