Theme is gone and login link misdirects

I get 404 at your root and blog

I moved the site to a good host thinking that this might me the problem since I had a number of problems with the old one. The site is up now but still have the same problem.

I was going to do a reinstall but I have to figure out how to back up the data first.

Any idea why the the original problem of no theme and misdirect of login?

hard to say but sounds like you might need to run a repair on the database

OK, I’ll bite. How do you “run a repair” on a database?

I have what seems to be a common problem– I try to login from wp-login.php, just like I’ve been doing all along, but suddenly that gives me an Error 404 instead of the Dashboard page.

I had just updated an app that uses a different MySQL database, but I don’t see why that should affect this one. Nonetheless, if there’s a way to ensure my DB’s good health, I’d sure like to know about it!

Check:

1. Login to phpMyAdmin.
2. Select the database and click on ‘Structure’ tab.
3. Right under the list of table there is a “Check All” link. Click on it to select all tables.
4. From a “With selected:” drop-down menu right next to it, choose “Check table”.

Repair:

1. Login to phpMyAdmin
2. Choose the affected database. If you only have one database, it should choose it by default so you don’t need to do anything.
3. In the main panel, you should see a list of your database tables. Check the boxes by the tables that need repair.
4. At the bottom of the window just below the list of tables, there is a drop down menu. Choose “Repair Table”