Patricia Mitchell

Hi, I did the same thing on one of my sites.

My solution was to go to my server CPanel and log in. The next step was to identify the relevant database. Using PHPMyAdmin you can browse the various tables. The one you want to edit is the wp_options table.

There will be a line that allows you to enter the correct URL for your site. Save the changes and you are done. Very simple and works immediately after you have logged out of CPanel.

If you have not done this sort of thing before, just don’t rush it.

In this instance my site is with Hostgator. I have some other sites there which do not have this problem.

After I completed my first blog downgrade, WordPress said it needed to update the database when I was logging in. That went smoothly. Once I was in, the dashboard appeared fully and everything seemed to be in order.

I had taken the precaution of backing up all the affected databases first (3 in all). I made sure that I followed the instructions in the WordPress Codex explicitly for doing a manual installation.

Very happy to report that the downgrade (to 3.1.4) has worked really well on the 3 blogs I had upgraded to 3.2. This whole exercise has taught me a lot, especially to test an upgrade first on a cloned copy of one of my blogs. You know the story, once bitten…..

Forgot to mention this earlier, but I do not have that particular plugin installed – already checked that one. What I will do is go back to 3.1.4, and will forget about upgrading my other sites to 3.2 until this issue settles down.

Thank you for all suggestions.

Ipstenu: What I mean by ‘incomplete’ is that the dashboard now longer shows all of the Admin tools. I don’t know enough to make them visible. For example, I need to import a couple of pages from another site, but cannot see the Import/Export section.

The https://chocolate.super-reviews.com/wp_dashboard.png linked screen shot shows what I have.

MichaelH: Fortunately I have already backed up my database. By WP files, exactly which ones are critical? (I have only been doing WP for a few months)

Thanks for the suggestions.

What a shame! Especially as I have only just discovered it and it performs brilliantly for me…

I have just installed it on 2 blogs using WP 3.1.3 and it seems to be working fine for me. FYI