No Auto-Update Option

I tried that and I’m still not able to stay logged in. I will initially get to the dashboard, go elsewhere and it will ask me to sign in again. I put in my username and password and it then keeps asking for it and won’t log me in anymore.

So, I’m going to say something is _very_ wrong with your site then.

Do you have a backup from prior to all this happening that you could restore from?

I use Updraft and it has a save from the 18th. Would that have the ability to restore what needs to be restored?

If it properly backed up, yes I’d try restoring from it now.

I don’t know how to do it without having access to my login. I found a .php file that had a weird name and it seemed to have a function in it to change my password and I’m wondering if that’s what’s happening. I’m going to re-delete everything in there and then try uploading all those files again (it’s hard to do because for some reason my FTP doesn’t work and that’s a problem with my host, not with this). I just have to use the control panel file manager to manually upload them. The issue is you can’t upload entire file structures that way.

They have some options for this at https://updraftplus.com/faqs/i-want-to-restore-but-have-either-cannot-or-have-failed-to-do-so-from-the-wp-admin-console/

I worked with my host and we got the login issues fixed, and I manually uploaded everything for the new edition, so I don’t think I’ll know until the next update if I have the ability to update again.