lilianaliliana

Thank you! And especially thanks for the security info links.

Thank you bh_WP_fan. I’m sure I should have been able to fix it, but I couldn’t.

I’ve had to start from scratch. I have one last question for anyone?

My original problem was this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<‘ in /home2/abecedar/public_html/centrifugalreflection/wp-includes/default-widgets.php on line 1034

How or why did it occur and how do I ensure it doesn’t happen again?

Thanks,
A very weary Liliana

I’m back!

Numeeja, I upgraded from 2.7 to 2.8.6. The WordPress blog itself is only a month old and I transferred everything from Blogger. My control panel at BlueHost said I should upgrade, but after I get this current problem fixed I hope to not upgrade for a very, very, long time. I’m sorry to say I upgraded after you told me not too. It was all gone anyways, so I figured what can I lose.

I re-uploaded wp-includes just now. But I deleted wp-includes first, and I thought the fresh upload would make its own folder. It didn’t. My new error message is:

Warning: require(/home2/abecedar/public_html/centrifugalreflection/wp-includes/compat.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home2/abecedar/public_html/centrifugalreflection/wp-settings.php on line 246

Can I move those things (the wp-include stuff) into a folder? I see them in the lower right hand box of Filezilla, but I know they’re supposed to be in their own folder.

Thanks (again).

Okay, I need to change my question to resolve this.

My blog index page is all white. The source code – there is none. How do I put my blog back up? Should I start from scratch and redo everything? I transferred five years of blog to WordPress. This is not good.

I did the upgrade to 2.8.6 and looks like I wiped everything out.

Thanks,
~Lil

Are there like 714 files in the wp-admin folder? That’s how many are uploading and I have a slow connection. I just want to make sure this sounds right?

~Lil

Oops, nevermind about the second half of my post. I don’t want to overwrite anything because I can’t access my site it do a back-up first anyways. Duh.

Thank you esmi, but can I find the wp-includes when I cannot access wp-admin page? I don’t think so, but I’m new to WP.
So I thought to try installing the newest WP 2.8.6 and I get this:

Installing WordPress 2.8.6 to https://www.centrifugalreflection.com
Overwrite Warning, Please Confirm
It looks like there are some conflicting files in the directory you have chosen. If you choose to continue, conflicting files will be overwritten, which will destroy the original contents of those files.

I don’t know what I should do?

That was super simple. RVoodoo, thank you sooo much!

~Lil in New Mexico

Thank you very much, samboll. I picked Filezilla and got it all set up. Thanks!