rmdundon

Hmm, posted that before I finished!

Anyway, in order to gain admin access without knowing the password you would almost certainly need access to the database that WordPress uses.

Though, you *could* try resetting the password for the user admin using your .../wp-admin/ link, and see if the reset password email goes to an internal email inside your company.

Hi klundin, welcome!

WordPress works by residing on a Web server, using PHP files (they’re like HTML pages with programming code in them) and connecting to a MySQL database, which is usually on the same server the PHP files are on.

This server could be hosted by your employer, or on a paid service.

WordPress is Free Software (Open Source). It can be download free of charge. What’s paid for are some services supplied by Automattic (the sponsoring company) or many web designers/developers offering web site services using WordPress.

Do you really need to use InnoDB? If so, you need to fine tune it order to get the best results, for example innodb_buffer_pool_size. In many cases, you should be fine with just MyISAM, though.

Have you tried disabling one plugin at a time?

Also, it may be your web host. If you can try your installation on another one, I would do that in order to rule that out.

Cheers!