woodleighschool

Many thanks for all your help – nearly had heart failure there. Have a good evening.

I replaced the following from the sample wp config .php into the actual config file.

define('AUTH_KEY',         'put your unique phrase here');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  'put your unique phrase here');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    'put your unique phrase here');

define('NONCE_KEY',        'put your unique phrase here');

define('AUTH_SALT',        'put your unique phrase here');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'put your unique phrase here');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   'put your unique phrase here');

define('NONCE_SALT',       'put your unique phrase here');

I can now access the wp-admin

I don’t have another wordpress install in the root. I do have our backup old website on the same hosting (which doesn’t interfere at all) which is all html and this does still work, so I can’t see it being the hosting, unless there’s something wrong with the sql server – the old site doesn’t use sql.

should there be one?

there isn’t one there

no

Tried that but it has had no effect.

Does that .htaccess file go in the root or the wordpress dir or both?

I’ve checked the .htaccess file repeatedly and it is blank.

No – the wordpress dir is https://www.woodleighschool.com/wordpress/

htaccess file is empty. Should there be something in it?

I followed this:
or via FTP

Create an empty plugins folder
Via FTP or your host’s control panel, navigate to the wp-contents folder (directory)
Via FTP or your host’s control panel, rename the folder “plugins” to “plugins.hold”
Via FTP or your host’s control panel, create new folder called “plugins”
Login to your WordPress administration menus
Via FTP or your host’s control panel, delete the empty “plugins” you previous created
Via FTP or your host’s control panel, rename “plugins.hold” back to “plugins”

But it has had no effect.

Just editing tags on posts

I can’t get into my site!

Where and how would I find that?