Charlie Sweatpants

I was momentarily puzzled by what you wanted me to do, but just hitting “Save” on the Permalink screen without actually changing anything did the trick. Thanks.

Poor netiquette on my part leaving this dangling for more than a month, but I contacted my hosting company (Hover), and they cleared it up pronto. Thanks for all the help here, it was invaluable.

Further actions that have no resolved this include following the instructions on this thread (https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/cant-access-dashboard-32?replies=10) to manually reinstall/update WordPress.

First I disabled all plugins through phpMyAdmin (setting active_plugins to “a:0:{}”). Then I replaced both the wp-admin and wp-includes folders and uploaded fresh copies of the individual files in the wp-content folder. (As per instructions, I did not overwrite the entire wp-content folder.)

After that didn’t work, I tried it with a fresh wp-config.php file, entering only the database information just like it was a fresh install. Nothing. Still can’t get to my Dashboard or my site. Any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Renaming .htaccess didn’t seem to have any effect.

I changed the wp-config.php file so that WPCACHEHOME was “plugins.hold” (which is what my plugins folder is called at the moment) instead of “plugins”. Then I changed the same location in the wp-cache-config.php that’s in the “wp-content” folder. That got rid of the source message about WPCACHEHOME on the blank page, but didn’t make any other difference. Just for fun I also tried CHMODing the wp-config to 777, but it didn’t change anything.

So, now I can get a true blank page which viewing the source also sees as blank. Out of curiosity, I then re-uploaded my main theme (which I had earlier deleted), and it comes back with “can’t establish connection” again instead of the blank screen.

Yet again, thanks for the help, but sadly it doesn’t look like I’m done wrestling with this yet.

Sadly, that doesn’t seem to help. I’ve deleted my main theme, so TwentyTwelve is the only one in the themes folder. But it’s still coming up blank. My plugins folder is currently renamed to “plugins.off”, but that also doesn’t seem to have an effect. Both the homepage and the wp-admin address just say unavailable. Any further suggestions? (And once again, thank you. I really appreciate this. I’ve been pouring through other topics here but nothing seems to apply.)

“- deactivate all plugins and see if the problem persists. If it solves the problem, activate plugins one by one until you find the problematic one”

I tried this already, and I think the culprit is BetterWPSecurity. I was briefly able to get to the Dashboard with all plugins disabled. I started turning them back on one at a time and when I turned on BetterWPSecurity, that was when I got into my current predicament. What’s got be baffled is that previously, when I used FTP to rename the “Plugins” folder to “Plugins.Hold”, I could access the dashboard. Now I can’t. I tried renaming just the “better-wp-security” subfolder of the “plugins” subfolder, but that didn’t work either.

Thanks for the help.