Title: Cannot access wp-admin Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Cannot access wp-admin * [renkessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renkessler/) * (@renkessler) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/) * Newbie here. First post. * Spent all morning getting WordPress running on my server. Made my first post. All went well. * Then, in admin, I changed themes. Nothing drastic, just pulled one from the available themes. Closed admin to look at the new theme, and decided I wanted to try another. * Accessed the admin login screen successfully, entered username and password, and was delivered to a blank page. No text, graphics, or anything clickable. Just a blank page. * Did I somehow hose myself by changing themes? * The url to the blog is: [http://blog.doityourselfcomputing.com](http://blog.doityourselfcomputing.com) * Is there anyone out there who has seen this, or knows a solution? * Thanks in advance. * Ren Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1213969) * Should that be [http://doityourselfcomputing.com](http://doityourselfcomputing.com)? * [http://blog.doityourselfcomputing.com](http://blog.doityourselfcomputing.com) leads to a 404 page. * Thread Starter [renkessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renkessler/) * (@renkessler) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1213972) * Oops, wrong domain. Sorry. * [http://blog.helpyourselfcomputing.com](http://blog.helpyourselfcomputing.com) * Thanks. * Ren * [alism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alism/) * (@alism) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1213973) * Have you tried a different browser or clearing your cookies? * [pajamadeen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pajamadeen/) * (@pajamadeen) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1213974) * It’s displaying just fine in Firefox. * Thread Starter [renkessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renkessler/) * (@renkessler) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1213979) * Thanks for all your quick responses. I cleaned my firefox cookies and also tried IE. I have the same response on both of my computers (one Vista and one Win7). * Just a blank screen after logging in. * Any more suggestions? Do I need to take it down and start over? * [alism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alism/) * (@alism) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1213983) * You should be able to FTP to the wp-content/themes directory and just delete the folder containing the theme you tried to switch to. Perhaps it’s just not compatible with the latest version of WordPress. * WordPress should revert back to the default theme. * Thread Starter [renkessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renkessler/) * (@renkessler) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1213984) * Will it reset to the default theme? * Thread Starter [renkessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renkessler/) * (@renkessler) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1213995) * Just deleted all themes, and tried to log in again, with the same result-blank page after logging in. There must be a way of forcing a page to show. Do I have a corrupt file some place? * Any other suggestions would be helpful. * Ren * [alism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alism/) * (@alism) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1213998) * Hmmm. So you’ve now deleted ALL of your themes, including the default one?! * If so, re-FTP the default one back… * Thread Starter [renkessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renkessler/) * (@renkessler) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1214001) * Kept the default. It was the only one I kept. * Thread Starter [renkessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renkessler/) * (@renkessler) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1214019) * Update. After deleting all the themes (except default) my blog doesn’t display either. * I re-uploaded the themes and the blog now displays, but not the admin pages. * If I decide to start over by reinstalling the wordpress files, my mysql data should not be affected, and my posts should still be there, right? * Ren * [alism](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alism/) * (@alism) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1214023) * Yeah, correct. You can delete and re-upload your wp-admin and wp-includes folders no problems. * The wp-content folder however contains any images you upload into posts, as well as your plugins and themes, so generally that’s left alone. In your root directory, the wp-config.php file is the one to keep safe – as that contains the database username and password, so don’t delete or overwrite that either. * Saying that, I don’t think that’ll help you with your problem. Take a look at this thread, it might point you in a better direction: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/204776?replies=4](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/204776?replies=4) * Anyway, I’m off to bed, g’night!! * Thread Starter [renkessler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/renkessler/) * (@renkessler) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-access-wp-admin-6/#post-1214026) * Thanks for, your help. 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