Alan Terrill

I’ve turned on the debug errors -when I open the blog page (follies.org.uk/wp I still see just a white screen. When I open the admin page I get this:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare check_password_reset_key() (previously declared in /content/shard2/sites3/f/o/follies.org.uk/web/wp/wp-login.php:281) in /content/shard2/sites3/f/o/follies.org.uk/web/wp/wp-includes/user.php on line 2077

I’ve downloaded a new copy of WordPress and then uploaded it to my site. Result? Admin page still blank and so is my blog. Time to give up unless anyone else can help.

Thank you for your patience – I find this program very frustrating – I’ve never come across one that is so easily corrupted before. I can’t understand why changing a theme or an update changes the admin screen so drastically that it is no longer accessible while leaving the blog pages readable. Why should any of these changes affect the admin page -surely the style of that is not affected by theme or plugin changes?
Anyway -I have copied the wp-content folder onto my PC but it seems to consist of lots of jpg files -all the photos I’ve added presumably, but I can’t see which files contain my text -what format are these in and what folder will I find them in? If I take a copy of all the files, upload a new copy of WordPress then I’ll have a working admin page (hopefully) but no content. So how can I upload the content only? If I just restore the whole thing I’ll be overwriting the new database with the old corrupted one.

No -1) I didn’t understand how to download plugins when i couldn’t see the page to download them from. 2) -i renamed the plugins folder but it made no difference. 3) I downloaded a new copy of WordPress and uploaded the wp-admin and wp-includes folders. Should I do any more? I’m afraid of overwriting my content files. Anyway it made it worse _ i used to be able to see the login screen, no it is completely blank and I don’t even get a login box. I’ll try that memory limit tomorrow.

Yes I can rename the theme. But how do I update WordPress using a different theme? As I can’t get into the admin screen, how can I download and install a new theme? I’m using the twentyeleven theme, but putting an underscore in front of it mean both the admin screen sand the public pages become blank.

Yes indeed -here’s the latest error: Deprecated: mysql_connect(): The mysql extension is deprecated and will be removed in the future: use mysqli or PDO instead in /content/shard2/sites3/f/o/follies.org.uk/web/wp/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1142 Notice: register_sidebar_widget is deprecated since version 2.8! Use wp_register_sidebar_widget() instead. in /content/shard2/sites3/f/o/follies.org.uk/web/wp/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2900 Notice: register_widget_control is deprecated since version 2.8! Use wp_register_widget_control() instead. in /content/shard2/sites3/f/o/follies.org.uk/web/wp/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2900 Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_installed_translations() in /content/shard2/sites3/f/o/follies.org.uk/web/wp/wp-includes/update.php on line 32

What one earth does it mean? And how do I find these lines eg something is apparently wrong on line 2900 but when I look at wp-config it doesn’t have any line numbers and I doubt it has as many at 2900 lines even if I did count down from the top.

Still no luck -following that thread I removed all the themes except the 2013 one, but I still get a blank page when I log in. Anyone else got any ideas before I have to remove my blog entirely and look for a different host?

Thank you -I’ve tried renaming the themes and plugins to no avail. So I turned on the debugging and the admin page now says “Deprecated: mysql_connect(): The mysql extension is deprecated and will be removed in the future: use mysqli or PDO instead in /content/shard2/sites3/f/o/follies.org.uk/web/wp/wp-includes/wp-db.php on line 1142 Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_installed_translations() in /content/shard2/sites3/f/o/follies.org.uk/web/wp/wp-includes/update.php on line 32 ” Can anyone tell me what this means and what I can do about it?

So the dash is ‘by design’ in this theme is it? Or am i doing something wrong?