Knut Sparhell

Probably a bad plugin. Decativate them all and reactivate one by one, test in between.

Simply add wp-login.php to your blog home page URL, you will see the normal login page, and there IS a link to forgot password.

You may also access this password function directly by adding wp-login.php?action=lostpassword to your home URL (https://example.com/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword).

If you have a backup you may restore this.

Otherwise, it’s really important to force WordPress to deactivate all plugins. Do this by renaming the plugins folder in wp-content. Then you can investigate further.

Your site is hacked. If you look at the html source of your admin you will find eval????e64_decode(. That is almost a proof of hacking, using the combination of the eval function and base64_decode.

See this article.

I’m not sure what you mean here.

When you are logged in you are per default the author of a new post you create. Why do you think you have to “put yourself” as the author?

If you are an editor on a blog you might change the author in the author metabox on the edit page.

If you need to see the author of a post on the front, this is something your theme, or your theme settings, are responsible for. It might be shown as a byline on top of each post or in a meta section below.

Might try to redirect fron blog/ to /

You may also take a look at this post.

This indicates that your WordPress files is in a subfolder of the web root called wordpress and that your site is still viewed from the root.

When this is the case the .htaccess file seems to be correct.

You may try this fix.

If you just rename it, then it should be recreated when you save your permalink settings. Also heck the file modfication time on the file to verify that it has been written to when you save the permalink settings.

www.ads-software.com doesn’t do WordPress hosting. wordpress.com does. If you mean wordpress.com then try the forums on that site for the backup question. Then come back here for questions on how to host, set up and maintain your own WordPress (ORG) blog.

Check your .htaccess file in the web root folder.

Seems you have installed something that breaks your feeds. Did you recently change your permalink structure, install or uopdate a plugin?

Plugins that doesn’t cause this may be activated again. You just have to find out if and which plugin that breaks your site.

If it is a plugin, it’s likely a recently updated one. Any other updates recently, to WordPress, theme, PHP or web server software?

And which web server software, which PHP version and WordPress do you run?

In your .htaccess file (old site) add this line:
Redirect 301 / https://brittinspired.com/

When changing permalink structure your .htaccess file should change, at least on Apache web server. WordPress will add some lines. Does that happen?

Pages have no taxonomies, no publish date and usually no comments.

Pages are for “static” and editable information. You do not edit posts. If the information is aoutdated you write a new post on the subject. With pages you update them.

Pages are god for contact information, “about” info and such. Pages have a menu selction that shows one page. Posts go into a category and a menu selection shows the last post in the category, like a section of your site.

A page must always be kept updated, as the are date-less. Avoid whenever possible.

Use pages when the information should always be available from the menu, regardless how old the information might be, as long as it’s still correct.