Title: cannot access admin panel after upgrade
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# cannot access admin panel after upgrade

 *  Resolved [twilightown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twilightown/)
 * (@twilightown)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-panel-after-upgrade/)
 * hi,
 * i decided to finally upgrade my wordpres from 2.7 to the latest 2.9, after taking
   a while to ‘upgrade’ i can no longer access my admin panel.
    after i log in all
   i see is a blank screen. so i can’t write new posts, see my stats, check my plugins,
   anything! I have no idea if it was even upgraded properly, clearly something 
   has gone terribly wrong.
 * i can still ‘see’ blog and all the posts and comments are still there. its just
   the admin panel i cant access.
 * i backed up the db before the upgrade, using a plugin but i have no idea how 
   to get everything back to normal.
 * any help would be appreciated, we have been without a blog for several days now
   and there are people relying on me to get the blog back up.
 * thanks

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-panel-after-upgrade/#post-1444369)
 * Try:
 * – switching to the default theme by using FTP to rename you current theme’s folder.
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or phpMyAdmin.
 *  Thread Starter [twilightown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/twilightown/)
 * (@twilightown)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-panel-after-upgrade/#post-1444417)
 * i have now resolved the issue by doing a fresh manual install of wordpress.
 * and following this tutorial: [http://www.blog.redcentaur.com/2009/upgrading-to-wordpress-2-8/](http://www.blog.redcentaur.com/2009/upgrading-to-wordpress-2-8/)
 * it didnt take too long and was pretty easy

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-admin-panel-after-upgrade/#post-1444417)
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