Can't log in & theme issues

  • Hi,

    I was attempting to add a new theme and in the process have deleted all the settings for the previous theme – after a manual install of the theme via FTP, the theme and in fact any theme, is now not displaying any content in demo mode and my WP blog seems to default to the launch page of my main, non-WP hosted webpage, instead of the blog.

    Additionally, I am no longer able to log into WP Admin.

    I should add that I performed a manual upgrade of WP to the latest version, via FTP, since it has failed to upgrade automatically on numerous occasions (I deleted the “.maintenance” file as instructed) – I have done this before without problems.

    R

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  • Try:
    – switching to the default theme automatically by renaming your current theme’s folder inside wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

    – re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder and the wp-config.php & root .htaccess files – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    – running the upgrade manually via wp-admin/upgrade.php

    Thread Starter ravi swami

    (@ravi-swami)

    Hi Esmi,

    Thanks for the prompt reply – I have tried all of the above as per your reply, but when I go to the URL <happy-robot.co.uk/blog>, it is still displaying the index page of my main website at <www.happy-robot.co.uk> instead of the default WordPress template.

    I have reset the plugins folder as instructed and have also deleted the plugins which were required for the theme I was trying to install (“Konzept”) before doing all of the above, and have also deleted the new theme folder.

    FYI, on my server, the WordPress blog folder is called “blog” – I just tried re-naming it “WordPress blog” and this resulted in a blank page with no content at all, when opening the blog site page.

    R

    Check your root .htaccess file.

    Thread Starter ravi swami

    (@ravi-swami)

    Where would I find that ? – I’m looking at the root directory on my FTP & the list of files is as follows :

    sitemap.xml
    index.html
    default.asp
    WHO.html
    EMAIL.html
    BLOG.html

    followed by these folders :
    js
    images
    css
    blog
    aspnet_client
    _notes
    Templates
    SpryAssets
    Scripts
    OPTIMISED

    The files in caps are all content for my main website at <www.happy-robot.co.uk>

    Thread Starter ravi swami

    (@ravi-swami)

    Looking at other replys on the WP forums re .htaccess – it should be in the WP root folder
    , but it doesn’t appear to be in my WP root folder.

    Check that your FTP client is configured show all files. .htaccess files are often hidden by default.

    Thread Starter ravi swami

    (@ravi-swami)

    ..seems to be missing altogether..

    Thread Starter ravi swami

    (@ravi-swami)

    I’m using Filezilla..

    In that case, you may have to ask your hosts for help with this as the redirection seems to be happening at a server level rather than within WordPress.

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