netlady

Thanks!

Thanks . . . I tried a different approach to installing it. Instead of manually doing it, I used Fantastico and it worked fine. I’m in the Admin now.

Appreciate your replies very much. ??

Thanks kmessinger. Your response suggested that I delete the original install and reinstall WordPress, which I did, but I’m still getting the same error message.

My hosting company restored the previous version which allowed me to login to WP Admin.

And since ALL plugins are now disabled, I have created a draft post, saved it, and there were errors.

Therefore, I deduce that the problem is not the theme, but one of the plugins.

My hosting company restored the previous version and that allowed me to login to WP Admin.

Appreciate your replies iridiax.

Now maybe you (or someone else) can help me figure out what I’ve done wrong.

Before switching themes or disabling plugins, I contacted my hosting company’s support to verify that my login details were correct so that I could just go ahead and update to the latest version of WP. That person let me know that my login details were correct, but that my site was initially installed using Fantastico, which means I had the wrong path.

When I logged into Fantastico, I could see that I needed to update from 2.6 to 2.6.1 (although WP shows 2.6.2). So I went through Fantastico and updated WordPress, but before doing so, thought I was doing the right thing by disabling all plugins except for the Maintenance Mode plugin. I had activated that first so there’s a splash screen stating the site was undergoing maintenance.

The problem is that since updating WordPress, I am unable to login to WordPress Admin! I get the login screen, login, but instead of getting to my Dashboard, I’m sent to the Maintenance Mode splash screen at: https://netmarketingfornewbies.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php?_wp_http_referer=%2Fwp-admin%2F

I guess I was supposed to deactivate the Maintenance Mode plugin as well BEFORE I did the WordPress update because nothing I try will allow me to login to https://netmarketingfornewbies.com/wp-login.php

So I have NO idea how to fix it so that I can log back into my WordPress Admin to reactivate the plugins I deactivated and try the next update of 2.6.2 from inside of WordPress.

Can anyone help someone who is blindly trying to figure this stuff out?

Thanks, however, I thought the theme from https://www.doshdosh.com/prosense-adsense-ready-seo-theme/ was compatible with 2.0+. And when the person who had been taking care of my site upgraded it to 2.6, the plugins were updated too.

And because of these errors, I have also tried unsuccessfully to automatically (or even manually) upgrade to the latest version of WordPress (2.6.2). I keep getting this message:

“Server does not allow us to write to your wordpress directory
In order to continue you need to do one of the two things

1. Provide us with your FTP credentials

Note: We do not store your FTP information with us due to security reasons. Your ftp credentials will only be used to make your site writable by this plugin. You only have to do this once.”

Once I enter my FTP details, and click Automatically Update, I get this message:

“Oops!!!!! We are unable to connect to the ftp site with the data your provided, could you cross check and give us the data again”

Yes, I recently changed the password, but it’s stored in RoboForm and works everywhere else that I use that particular password.

And using CoreFTP, I can upload files to my site using my FTP details, so I don’t understand why WordPress can’t connect.

I had also tried previously to do a backup and get this message instead:

WARNING: Your wp-content directory is NOT writable! We can not create the backup directory.
/home/netmarke/public_html/wp-content/backup-c24cb/

WARNING: Your backup directory is NOT writable! We can not create the backup directory.
/home/netmarke/public_html/

I have already changed the permissions of the wp-content directory to 777 but don’t even see a backup directory.

Now what? Any ideas?

This ‘trial by fire’ is really frustrating.