Dashboard on site has disappeared overnight – .org does not recognise user/pw

Maybe your friend could give you some help.

Otherwise you may have a better time on a hosted site. Learning MAMP and WordPress at the same time would be tough if you are not technically inclined.

It would seem that you site was working fine until you did a shutdown and restart.
Can you find your WordPress files on your computer ? Can you check the MAMP configuration ?

He’s not readily accessible to use my laptop unfortunately, hes been directing me over message.

What other options do I have to developing the website?

Last night I started it all again from scratch. I download MAMP and WordPress again, set it all up and uploaded the demo theme. Closed both apps several times and each time it relaunched the WordPress admin panel was still there. I shut down my laptop (don’t normally do this but was testing) and alas, I wake up and the same problem has happened as before. No admin panel…

What could this be?

Suggest that you run teamviewer on your laptop, and get your friend to troubleshoot your laptop. Download from “teamviewer.com”

Also suggest that you seek support from the MAMP forums.

he said he has no clue why it has happened. I don’t think he can help.

I will seek support in the MAMP forums for the meantime, thank you.

@jrymill –

I hope that you do realize that every time you shut down MAMP, whether by doing so from the MAMP Control Panel or by shutting down your computer, that you have to explicitly re-start MAMP again in order to work on your site locally.

Does the MAMP icon appear in your Dock as running? If not, then you have to start it again. Applications/MAMP and select the MAMP icon. Once the MAMP app starts, you HAVE TO select Start Servers and wait until both check marks show that the servers (Apache and MySQL) have started. THEN, and ONLY THEN, can you start working on your local WordPress, in your case https://localhost:8888/southeastweddingcars/ for the “Front End” and https://localhost:8888/southeastweddingcars/wp-admin to log into the “Dashboard” ??

Cheers!
Lyle

Yes, of course I started the MAMP app again! But thank you for your help.
I gave up on MAMP and have started using Xampp which so far I have rebooted and tested things and everything seems to be working. I have made backups of my databases this time.

Would either of you be able to advise on the difference between the Bitnami stack or the plugins?

Sorry, not sure I understand the question.
I develop on computers using LINUX operating system, in particular Ubuntu-Mate bundle. I manage the databases using phpmyadmin and occasionally the mysql command line. I install my website files + themes + plugins using the file browser rather than having WP manage that. I use Filezilla for transferring files to/from hosting serves.

I did my very first WordPress excursions on shared hosting servers using one-click installers, soon graduated to doing my own installs because of the extra level of control it gives, after that I installed a localhost environment, on Linux this is takes a handful of lines, I now routinely develop sites locally using the “Virtual Host” apache configuration.

Hope this helps.

I had a similar experience. I’m a beginner but what I think is happening is you are accessing your site without being logged in to wordpress. So you only see the site as a visitor, no access to the the editor.

Make sure wamp is running, green icon on the tool bar.

At the URL, assuming the usual configuration, type:
https://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin

That should bring up the login page and then you will get to the dashboard.