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OK, my files were a mess. I installed a site cleaning plugin to get rid of multiple duplicate folders that I seem to have picked up somewhere – I’m guessing the first failed install of 5.9.0 and the downgrade tech support provided. After that, I backed up and removed htaccess from wp-admin.

Is it worth trying the one-click update now that I’ve cleaned up all those duplicate folders and htaccess?

If I need to do a manual install of WordPress, I’d rather wait three weeks. I will have finished my series at that point and can schedule some down time.

Oddly, it looks like saving permalinks on the dashboard hasn’t created a new htaccess file under wp-admin. I just went back there and did it again, and there is no change. public_html/sandbox/wp-admin has one, and only one, but public_html/wp-admin doesn’t.

I have been having serious issues with tech support, because I have to explain this to a new person every time and they use a script. If there is something I need to ask my host, you have to explain it to me exactly, so I can say it over and over while they try to walk me through disabling the plugins again.

I’ve been there. I was too nervous to renumber every file attribute, but they all seem to have numbers in the correct range. I did deactivate all plugins and remove the htaccess file. After downgrading to 5.8, I followed the instructions for generating a new one – I was unable to do so before the downgrade because of the errors. The same errors returned after I reinstalled 5.9.2. I deactivated all the plugins again, no effect. I figured it was the same problem and the same thing would fix it – downgrading fixed it.

The whole site never went down, only the admin pages under /wp-admin/ . I think it’s something with the upgrade rather than the security permissions.