Eq4bits

Thanks for above link, answered what I was asking. but I also changed option for ‘current_theme’ to twentyseventeen as well as the stylesheet and template options. still getting the 500 error, will wait awhile for server crons to ‘catch-up’……….. =S (yes I’ve cleared my cache)

just looked at the index.php file and line 16:

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */

there is no line 20
=S

OK, this is from the error-log: (asterisks to mask my directory)
[27-Jun-2016 21:14:41 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined index: asdf in /home/******/public_html/index.php on line 16
[27-Jun-2016 21:14:41 UTC] PHP Notice: Undefined index: asdf in /home/******/public_html/index.php on line 20

sorry, yes, I made wp-debug ‘true’ in config file…. looking for debug file now

also how can I enable wp-debug and do your suggestions if I can’t access site/dashboard?

Steve, in reply to your above replay:
How can I change the theme if I can’t access the dashboard??????

Per error_log:

[15-Aug-2017 18:52:09 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Directive ‘allow_call_time_pass_reference’ is no longer available in PHP in Unknown on line 0

Plugins disabled, so probably my theme. I found #124 in wp-options where my theme is listed (Atahualpa) can I just change that to i.e. ‘default’ or ‘twentyeleven’ or whatever and rename my Atahualpa theme folder to something like Z-atahualpa? Or is it more involved than that?

Okay, still throwing 500 error, so MUST be my theme? Is it possible to change the theme via the d/b wp-options table? I did search this site first for an answer/topic about it but couldn’t find one =S

thank you

it’s possibly my theme so is it possible to change theme via d/b?

create a new template folder i.e. ‘new’ in your file directory in the wp-splash templates directory.
copy the files from the default template directory to the ‘new’ directory.
open the splash-page.php
I added a bunch of <br> and   to re-position my ‘continue to website’ button
then in the wp-splash settings page in admin at the ‘template’ dropdown choose the ‘new’ as opposed to ‘default’ or ‘video’