adammann33

Ok — I’m in — hot damn! So I was right . . . problem 1) No admin page because of a plug in problem and 2) no good link to the log-in page from the sidebar log-in link.

Jeezum — so I think your fix — going into the mysql and editing out the plug ins in the db was what did the trick — just renaming the plugin folder isnt enough!

Thank you so much!

I get a message saying:

Not Found

Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.

And that message appears within the context of the theme — that is, it looks like the home page, but instead of content (posts, etc) there, it gives that message.

Thanks again, figaro — but still nada.

Thanks Figaro 🙂 So I looked in the wp_options table and there was no active_plugins table, although there were some records for plug-ins one level up with all the rest of the tables. Here’s a thought: it occurred to me that I made the “log-in” page not public in the dashboard — maybe that has something to do with it? At this point I’m about to just try to roll back to the previous version as best I can.

As a side note: I totally understand the concept of WordPress with it being free and open source and whatnot — and I think it’s a great idea and very much appreciate all the time and effort that so many folks put into it. But honestly, I feel like I spend as much time tracking down answers to these maddening problems as I do with creative content and I’m beginning to wonder if my time (and time = money after all) wouldn’t be better spent getting some user friendly commercial software to build my sites. Any suggestions? I mean, is WP and the seemingly endless tinkering and forum lurking required the best and most convenient thing our there?

Sorry for the rant 🙂 It’s just that getting everything to work like it’s supposed to has become a bit of an unraveling sweater.

Thanks again to all who have responded.

@figaro: Thank you so much! I’ll send you a private email.