Changing theme without access to admin

  • dgrier

    (@dgrier)


    17 years, 12 months ago

    I have been trying for two days to access the administration section of my blog. (It’s my own fault, but that’s another story.) I have had a lot of input but still haven’t learned how to get in.

    What I was wondering is if I can change the theme, since that’s what I messed up, from somewhere outside the administration section, maybe through the phpadmin or the hosting admin or the FTP?

    I am keeping my fingers crossed that there is a way. I am a firm believer in the old saying ‘there’s more than one way to skin a rabbit.”

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  • Roy

    (@gangleri)

    17 years, 12 months ago

    FTP is just a small program (Filezilla, WSFTP) that you use to transfers files to your server. You probably used it to upload WP to your server in the first place. When you do that, you will see the files on your computer and the files on your server and you can copy them back and forth. If you go to the /blog2 folder, that’s the root of your blog. The WP files on your computer will be in a folder called “WordPress” or something, the files directly in that folder are in the “root”, further you will see folders such as wp-admin, wp-includes, etc. Your computer and your server should ‘look the same’. For upgrade instructions see here.

    And I’m off now, so I hope you will be able to figure out what the hell we are talking about here 🙂

    Thread Starter dgrier

    (@dgrier)

    17 years, 12 months ago

    Thanks for the lesson on the root.

    It’s fixed. A friend from Digital Point at it up and going in about five minutes. He went into the FTP and into my blog and replaced some files. I had deleted the administration file somehow.

    Thank you for your assistance. Have a great weekend! 🙂

    gothicgoddess

    (@gothicgoddess)

    17 years ago

    i had a similar problem and cant log in either. when i put in the address i get the following:

    Not Found
    The requested URL /wordpress/login.php was not found on this server.

    Apache/1.3.33 Server at http://www.gothicgoddessmedia.com Port 80

    and i get a white page when i try to get into the home page. what can i do to get into my admin section? i even tried reloading wordpress and i still had the same problem. this is critical as i have to have my site running! i am a daily zine!

    thanks,

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