Disjoint between WordPress and Host

  • Hi,

    Hopefully this is the right forum to use, but let me know if not. I have a wordpress site that i’ve had for around 9 years or so and to be honest i haven’t been updating much in the past couple of years. Recently i noticed that the page would not load due to a PHP version incompatibility. I resolved this through my host by downgrading PHP temporarily till i could upgrade WP. Here’s where my problems began. My site no longer appears to be recognized as a WP site. My hosting solution (dreamhost) does have the ability to install a WP plugin – but this looks to create a new site rather than let me manage an existing one. Logging in to WP (i have two accounts) does not show the site. My primary account shows no sites related to it, and the secondary account shows a hosted blog i created for my Dad way back in the day but not my own hosted site.

    I’m at a loss of how i can manage my site now. The only thing i can think of – which sounds painful – is backing up the DB, installing the WP plugin and overwriting the DB but i have no idea if it will be the same schema being so old.

    Any ideas how i can recover access to an existing site? Again apologies if this is the wrong forum.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Your login at WP has nothing to do with your site. To log in follow https://www.imnotlikethem.com/wp-admin/

    Thread Starter tomihendrix

    (@tomihendrix)

    *bangs head against desk*

    I’m sorry! That’s what several years away from it does…i’d lost all my bookmarks so just went through the site login.

    Thanks again – sorry to bother!

    *sneaks away quietly*

    First and foremost, let’s get a few things cleared out.
    Your site is using a very old version of WP (WordPress 3.6.1 and we’re at 4.9.5)
    It’s still a wordpress site, that’s for sure.
    What do you mean by dreamhost has the ability to install a WP plugin? Regardless what host you’re on, that should be the norm. What I think you mean is the ability to install another WP instance and yes that would mean another WP.
    You also seem to be confusing dreamhost accounts and WP accounts…
    dreamhost will have the files and databases of as many WPs as allowed by your account.
    What you would need now is to access the database of your WP through dreamhost’s db management (most likely phpmyadmin) get to the wp_users table and look for your account.
    You’ll be able to login here
    If you don’t remember your password, it’s really simple; edit the user you want to login with and in the password field, enter your new password BUT make sure you select MD5 in the drop down menu for the password field.
    Once you log in, you should be able to update your WP to latest version and other plugins that require updates as well…
    then contact your host again to get newer php version back

    HTH

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