wp-includes folder erased during update process

Try:
– switching to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder inside wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

– re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

– running the upgrade manually via wp-admin/upgrade.php

esmi, thank you for your assistance.

I’ve been able to restore the folders and have attempted to move wordpress to the root directory. I’m not sure what’s missing but the site is not being configured as it should. I took the following steps:

1. Moved all files and folders from /wordpress/ subdirectory to root folder (httpdocs).
2. Exported database in myPHPAdmin and updated all instances of url to reflect new location in root.

Would be grateful if you or anyone could take a look.

https://www.campbimini.ca

Thank you.

Did you carry out all of the steps in Moving_WordPress?

I got to updating the permalinks settings and then got the following message at the bottom of the permalinks screen:

“If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.”

Where do I find the .htaccess file? I cannot find anything with that name in the root directory where I’ve moved all of the core WP files.

Thank you again for your assistance.

Still not sure about the htaccess file. For the sake of keeping things moving along, I’ve tried to update my database by replacing all instances (1408 total) of campbimini.ca/wordpress with campbimini.ca.

When I drop the previous database in its entirety and import the updated database, my website reverts to the original theme (making it seem as though all image files and stylesheets are not where they should be, and content is completely gone.

What the heck is going on?
Thx.

You may not actually have an .htaccess file yet but do check that your FTP client is configured to show all files. .htaccess files are often hidden by default. If you definitely do not have an .htaccess file, you will need to create one using a plain text editor, add the lines given to you by WP and finally upload the file to your domain’s root folder.

Thank you. In plain English, what does an .htaccess file do?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htaccess

Google is your friend…

I’ve been all over Google. Unfortunately, I am a designer and not a developer. All of the issues I’ve been having with this have fried my brain and I’m not understanding much developer-speak at this point.

Should I post in another forum or look elsewhere for more direct assistance? Thank you for your time thus far.

If you want support on general server issues/functionality, you would be better off posting in a server forum, yes. We only deal with WordPress-specific issues here.