offpat

correct – it doesn’t look like that –
and here are screenshots of what it, and the installatron admin page look like – https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8vB-NbyVrDGbnRqbEJrc01Td1E/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8vB-NbyVrDGMm5odHk4MHI4Zkk/edit?usp=sharing

since when the update occured for some reason the installatron details switched to Beverley21 at gmail.com (unknown to me) but I was able to get in via cPanel and change that back to me…

that got me to where I am now …

sorry – thought it was the only way in, and on topic…I am not used to threads being in the thousands – and cannot see where to start a topic..

I’ve been searching around on this issue as a user with a WP blog hosted by my website provider –
the dashboard I now have finally managed to get access to appears to have shrunk to a useless miniature thing that I can only use to access my profile or the blog page – no more list of plug ins, edit post, add new or much else of use.
I am an amateur at this and time has moved on since I thought I could manage such things – but being lost with no ability to write posts is frustrating to put it mildly.

the above instruction about getting into a current theme’s folder is a problem as I go into file manager form my Cpanel and find the themes folder – it downloads what is a PHP file and of course I have no idea what to do with that..
My problem is a little like the above persons – trying to be a car driver without ever learning how to re-engineer the engine – and not knowing the language that well either.

But if there is something simple I can do to regain access to the writing and editing of my blog that doesn’t get me lost in php editing, I might be able to manage it…

(Brain is old and slow now)