Error message, need help

What happens when you use one of the default themes?

I don’t know, I can’t get in to make any changes. My service provider said they could disable the theme from their end, but I had an additional question that they haven’t responded to yet. I thought to upgrade my Word Press and then upgrade the theme, but I got a strange message about my domain not being set up with my host. Which is strange because I’ve used them (and my WP blog) for years, so I’m a bit confused and not sure how to proceed.

Can you access your files by FTP? If not then your host may be involved in some way.

I don’t know how to do that and when I tried to look it up I found – You can’t upload anything by FTP and you cannot access meta data on any free hosted WordPress.com blog. There is no FTP access.

Who is your host? WordPress.com is not the same as self-hosted WordPress sites.

First, thanks so much for trying to help me with this. My host is Fat Cow they say they are a partner with Word Press.

You should be able to connect to your WordPress site using FTP. A good FTP program is Filezilla. Be careful where you download it from though.

Edit functions.php and see if the first few lines look like this

<?php
$bfa_ata_version = "3.7.19";

// Load translation file above
load_theme_textdomain('atahualpa');

// get default theme options

if not, you were probably hacked and need to fix it.