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Ah, understood. Thank you for that link. I will look into my options.

And Yahoo Small Business refuses to do anything more than tell me it’s a WordPress problem and that I need to consult WordPress for the solution.

Recommendations for a better server host? I’m looking at Dreamhost but I’m open for suggestions.

Okay, I am at an utter loss and I really need someone who will do more than the lame “customer service” at my ISP. With what I’ve learned here and through my own independent research, I believe that my problem stems from an OpenSSL issue, but my ISP keeps telling me that it is a problem with WordPress. My ISP is Yahoo Small Business. My ISP sucks.

Not only am I getting the previously posted error whenever I try to download a new theme through WordPress, I also noticed that I’m getting this error message under the “WordPress News” window on my dashboard: RSS Error: WP HTTP Error: error:0D0890A1:asn1 encoding routines:ASN1_verify:unknown message digest algorithm

Again, all that I’m reading points back to a server problem. I have now tried twice through Yahoo Small Business’s email support and twice through their Facebook DM. Nothing. They refuse to acknowledge that this is something on their side.

Could this in any way be a WordPress problem? I’m currently doing work on a WordPress site hosted on Dreamhost and I’m not encountering any problems at all with that.

Someone, please help.

The weird thing is that I can download new plugins and I can update the plugins and themes that came preinstalled with WordPress. I just can’t download new themes. I’m waiting to hear back from my ISP. Here’s hoping they can come through for me…for once.

Thank you. I have passed the error message to my server host. Hopefully, they can address the problem. I would like to have a resolution rather than a workaround. I learned the hard way that ignoring issues just compounds them to the point that you end up having to wipe everything and start again.

Does anyone have any advice to give on this problem? Should I just wipe everything and start clean? Or is there something else I could try first?

I’ve tried different browsers, different computers–it’s the same across the board. I also try to keep everything as up-to-date as I can on my system at home.