Google verification meta tag

in your theme’s header.php

you will see other meta tags, just paste it under one of those

As in Themes under appearance on dashboard?

yup. go to appearance-> editor

then select your header.php

How do I get to my theme’s header.php? that’s where I’m stuck.

when you go to appearance-> editor, on the right there should be a list of editable files…..one of them shoudl be header.php

or appearance-> editor ? I hover, right click and everything else I can think of on appearance and find zilch.

did you just plain old click?

you should be able to click on editor to go to the section that lists your files

yes ..and it shows php in bar at page bottom ,then done and nothing happens.

hmmm…seems like you have an entirely different issue, and one I’m not sure how to remedy. Can you navigate around to the rest of your admin sections with no problem?

Is there a way to salvage weeks of work on my site and reload WP. There is something obviously very wrong. I have spent the last 4 days reading the codex and nothing there seems to work.

Rest of admin seems great. My url is coastalcopperart.com

you can just re-upload the WP files (wp-admin and wp-includes folders) by FTP or use tools-upgrade if that’s available to you (upgrade can be used to reinstall WP too)

your posts and such are in your DB, so they are safe.

you may want to backup your DB, and your wp-contents folder to be safe (you really should be doing this frequently anyway, in case something happens to your site)

I’ll have at it and see if it fixes the problem. Thanks for your help.

I updated through tools-upgrade and nothing changed. I watched the bar at the bottom and it is simply a circular reload to the same admin page I was looking at in the first place. I get nothing indicating editor, files, or code.

so, when you hover over the editor link, at the bottom of your browser it shows that it should be going to

https://coastalcopperart.com/wp-admin/theme-editor.php correct?

and does that file exist in your wp-admin folder?