Blog disappeared when I deactivated plugins prior to upgrade to fix reverse prob

Your blog is here https://marketcastlive.com/marketing/

No, that’s a different blog that I was thinking of starting. The one that disappeared is an established blog with many posts, the address is https://www.marketcastlive.com/marketmusings/ . You will find a blank page when you go there.

Thanks for looking.

I would start checking files that could cause this like wp-config. Using FTP can you see your files? I would also go to my db to confirm all is still there.

I read once that one plug-in on deactivation was not very nice and had changed some additional files that caused something like this.

Also, are you using a redirect from https://www.marketcastlive.com/marketmusings/? I find no robots.txt or htacess.

No, it’s not a redirect. That’s the actual address.

Using ftp, I can see WordPress in the /marketmusings subdirectory.

I compared the wp-config to the sample, and it looks fine.
I didn’t see my posts, but hopefully that’s because I don’t really know where to look for them.

Should I try to upgrade WP? Any other suggestions?
Thanks again.

You should not try to upgrade unless you know how to back up your database.

“I can see WordPress in the /marketmusings subdirectory”

So your index.php should say . . .

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./marketmusings/Wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

It doesn’t. Should I edit it to what you posted? It says:

<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>

That says WordPress, or at least wp-blog-header.php, is supposed to be in the root directory.

Do you have this structure?
https://www.marketcastlive.com/marketmusings/Wordpress/wp-content/themes/default/style.css

It is of concern to me that I cannot find some files that should be there. If they are there but you can’t get to them, then that would be a security error.

Your original error message BTW, shows something was still looking for stockquote.php found a } that was incorrect and stopped processing. The errors show your WP is in marketmusings not in directory named WordPress.

Ok, I found your structure. https://www.marketcastlive.com/marketmusings/

You do not have a WordPress directory. The above is where your WP files reside.

BTW, the reversed blog is caused by a SQL problem. See wp-login.php?redirect_to=%2Fwp-admin%2F

This may be your host causing your entire problem.

Thanks. I know about the SQL problem. That’s why I was going to upgrade to a newer version of WP. WP instructions said to deactivate all plugins before upgrading. The errors occurred while I was deactivating the plugins.

That error message related to stock quote is a plugin that never worked. Maybe the problem started when I tried to deactivate it. Should I delete that plugin via ftp?

Re:
Do you have this structure?
https://www.marketcastlive.com/marketmusings/Wordpress/wp-content/themes/default/style.css

No, I don’t have the directory WordPress, but have all the rest. (Neither does the blog https://marketcastlive.com/marketing/.)

Well, if you have all the files and they are in the correct place WP should work. Unless your host changed something on the server.

Since we can’t get to https://www.marketcastlive.com/marketmusings/index.php or apparently any php file but we can get to txt, html and css files you should ask your host (or log in to your hosted account and see if you can find a reason) for assistance.

Thanks. Got frustrated and dropped the ball on this. Finally got Ipower, who originally said it was a problem with WordPress, to fix it. The blog is back, though still backwards, which I should be able to address with a WordPress upgrade.