GoingMad

Thank you Jeremy. Sadly it doesn’t help as I already said in my original query that I reset my WP password to be absolutely certain I knew what it was. I’ve had to log into WP to reply to this so I’m pretty certain I’ve got the right WP username and password.

Second, I also acknowledged in my original query that I know that I have to log in with my WP password, not my site admin password.

Any other suggestions?

Fixed it! Told you I was smart!!

It turned out to be the ‘localhost’. If anyone else has this issue, check when you set up your mySQL database if the webserver has a name. In my case it did, but because I saw ‘localhost’ too, I assumed that was fine – clearly it wasn’t. As soon as I entered the proper name it was fine. Only 2 days wasted…