Kricket77

No I am not avoiding it, I don’t know what to tell you. Someone else had a website, they set me up with my blog and a way to access it from their site. They basically abandoned the original site and here I am…as I have said all along, all I have ever done is login to it, write and mediate all the ridiculous spam comments. That’s it…simple as that.

I wish I could tell you more, but the person who set it up for me isn’t telling me anything else either.

free hosting by someone else. He acts like I should be able to do anything I want with it…

I asked him about that, but he acted like it didn’t make a difference. He thought I should just have a link to automatically update, but all I have is a download page come up.

Is there some way to move my blog to a place where I have easier access?

Well, I got into my blog! Yeah!!!

The original person was able to get in and change the password for me. Now, however, I am trying to figure out how to update it. Since there is a subdomain can I still upload it to the server?

I hate being technologically challenged!!!

Thanks for all your continued support…am at work so only have a minute to reply.

The host is SoftLayer,Inc…I will try them later.

Meanwhile, the URL is chattykricket.familytables.org

I do have more info now…I know the version I have is 2.5.1
That it is running on Apache
I know the Word press internal pathway

I tried using the emergency.php hack to get in, but it isn’t working. Not sure I am doing it correctly although I did find the update file for wordpress 3.3. I must have saved it on my computer before, but ran out of time to try to figure out the update. My website is also a .org rather than a .com Forgive my ignorance, but will that make any difference?

Getting late will try again tomorrow…any more advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for all who responded.

I scanned it…the only red flag is that it is outdated software. Glad I already knew that…thanks for the site though, Claverhouse.

I wish I HAD FTP access…I went back to the person who set it up, but I haven’t heard back yet. I’ve tried the automatic emailer over the last several months. Five times in January…I would click the link it gave me and I kept getting “that key does not appear to be valid”

UGH! This is frustrating!

Thanks tommytx…I really don’t know what info to give. Someone else set up the blog on another site. It is a wordpress page and all I have ever had was a user name and password to get into it. My user name appears to be correct, but I can’t reset the password. That is where I am at. When I contact the original person who set it up all I got was this:

“I don’t really have any suggestions. If the WordPress install is acting up there is not much I can do. I’m not a WordPress developer. I use it on one of my websites but I keep it up to date.
I’m not sure if there is a ‘reinstall’ feature that would restore it’s functionality.”

If it’s not enough info then I guess I am out of luck.

I appreciate the suggestion however since this is a personal blog I’m really not prepared to pay to have it fixed. I was hoping for a kindly soul to perhaps lead me through a process to get it back up and going. I’m not completely ignorant of computers just of wordpress and its associated functions. I’m wishing now that it had been me setting up the blog in the first place. It is linked to another site that is no longer being monitored so I can’t get aid from there.

Anyway, thank you for your assistance.

Did I mention I am a complete novice at this? The first thing it wants me to do is backup up my files…that would be great, but the only way I could see to do that required me to actually get INTO my blog. Like I said…I am locked out from the admin side of it. If I can’t do anything to get into it first then is there really ANY way to upgrade it?

Forgive me if I sound ignorant…of this particular function I truly am.

I honestly have no idea what version it is…I know I have tried to update for the last few years if that is any indication. Like I said I am a novice and since I had nothing to do with setting it up…I’m at a loss.