Try:
– switching to the Twenty Ten theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.
– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.
– re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress.
– re-running the upgrade manually using wp-admin/upgrade.php.
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jainsy
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I have tried all apart from re-uploading, so will give this ago.
Does this mean I will need to back-up from database once reinstalled though?
This doesn’t affect the database. Maybe if all goes well it will do an upgrade on the database afterwards, but this is normal behaviour. It’s always usefull to do a backup of the database before an update.
Ah, I see you have a backup! Very good.
Does this mean I will need to back-up from database once reinstalled though?
Not if all goes well.
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jainsy
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Thanks guys.
Have completed the upgrade. However, wordpress retains all the content I can see all posts and pages from within wp-admin but it does not recognise any of the themes or plugins that remained in the wp-content folder. So on type the site url into the address bar I am just shown a blank page.
Any idea here?
So now You can log in. Try resaving your permalink structure under Settings > Permalinks and see if that resolves it. Check if your wp-config.php is correct (also compare it to the wp-config-sample.php and see if there are any changes with this version).
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jainsy
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thanks for your help so far keesiemeijer.
I have saved copies of my old ones. Should I compare my old wp-config.php and wp-config-sample.php with my new ones?
They both look fine. The only thing is the W3 Super Cache plugin. Between the sample and actual config file. I have removed this to no avail.
Permalink structures were already the same. I just see no plugins or themes available, this must be the reason the site displays as blank? I’ve tried installing a new one but it say public_html is not writeable…??
Make a backup of your your wp-config.php. Copy all relevant information from your wp-config.php to wp-config-sample.php and save it as wp-config.php. That’s the safest way.
So on type the site url into the address bar I am just shown a blank page.
What do you mean by this?
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jainsy
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What I meant was, I am shown a blank page because wordpress is unable to find my theme files. I did not change or overwrite anything from /wp-content though.
Make a backup of your your wp-config.php. Copy all relevant information from your wp-config.php to wp-config-sample.php and save it as wp-config.php. That’s the safest way.
I have done this but no success. For some reason /wp-admin cannot see anything in /wp-content
