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I have, and that is the first place I went of course. They see nothing wrong. There’s nothing for them to fix.

Troy, you fixed it!

Sorta. I too found an htacess file in the wp-admin folder. I deleted it…that didn’t work. But I decided to look more into the htaccess thing.
Ages ago I had installed a plugin called Bulletproof, for additional security because my WP site was being hacked a lot. I no longer have the plugin installed, so it can’t be that an update to Bulletproof changed the htacess file. It must mean that a change in 3.5.1 made something in the htaccess file break something in the dashboard. That’s about as much as I’ve figured out.
I solved the problem by replacing the code with the bare-bones WP recommended code, and then slowly added in the bits I knew I needed to keep, like blocking a few IPs, hotlinking, protecting the wp-config and htaccess. I haven’t tweaked anything else and now all of my 403 errors are resolved.
Yay, I don’t have to reinstall the entire site! (As a long-time Windows user, it used to be that sometimes everything just got so effed up that you had to wipe and reinstall, I was preparing to do that)

Thanks for the help. Luckily I have hosting through godaddy and they back up my files for a few days….so I was able to do a restore “roll back” to the day before my files went kablooey. Waiting on tonight’s logs to see what happened.

UGH. Ok thanks guys.

Alism, is there a way to tell what caused it?

I finally got an error message! yay! yay?

Warning: gzinflate() [function.gzinflate]: data error in /home/content/19/5215119/html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1788

Warning: gzuncompress() [function.gzuncompress]: data error in /home/content/19/5215119/html/wp-includes/http.php on line 1793

Ok, I don’t know how to check/repair the database.

I tried something else….Instead of going to default wp-admin main dashboard I went right into something else, I think it happened to be the theme editor, and I was able to see the dashboard then and do things. But if I clicked on the main dashboard….white screen.
NOW if I try that same trick? It doesn’t even look the same as before its like….like a mobile version of a webpage.

I’m a hunt -n- peck blogger, but I don’t know about the database thing and I’m still trying to process in my head WTF happened to go from working one minute to barely breathing the next.

I’ll wait and see if any WP employee helps before changing the theme. I can’t risk completely messing up my site by flipping these switches when it worked this morning, I edited a draft post, and then an hour later kablooey. Nothing changed, nothing updated without my consent.

Ok I tried that, and it didn’t change anything =/

I don’t know if this helps, but it IS reloading to something else. Viewing my history on my browser says its: wyciwyg://620/https://elustsexblogs.com/wp-admin.