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Ok, this is completely frustrating.

Gwytherinn | July 6, 2008 | 9:10 pm

I went to upgrade my wordpress blog to 2.5 before doing any more major theme changes so I could be sure that whatever I did was compatible with the new release. Of course, even though there was this nagging little voice at the back of my mind telling me not to use the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin, because I trust myself more than some automatic plugin…. I figured I’d take a shortcut, just this once.

Admin panel GONE and in its place a nasty 404!

Restoring backups of site, nothing.

Searching for a solution to the problem turns up nothing but one other person who had the same problem a month ago - with no response to their post.

After toggling a bit with it and getting nowhere, even after purging that damnable plugin off my site I purged the whole thing and did a fresh install. It went off without a hitch until I restored the old blog database. I am now getting blank pages with the main theme. I am hoping the same doesn’t happen with others.

I don’t know what’s up with this, but this past hour has been completely frustrating. I was planning on installing some flickr widgets and some homemade book “widgets” (not really, since they aren’t interactive) but as usual with computing - Murphy’s Law. So if the site is on and off disappearing and it looks like it’s been completely purged, you know why!

Edit: Ok, I should have searched for this problem following the clue I found that tipped me off to change the theme. Apparently this seems to be a known issue, and reuploading the theme fixes it. Of course, this is when my FTP program decides to start acting strange and showing the wrong files. WS_FTP how I miss you.

Edited again: Ok, the upgrade to 2.5 was totally worth it. The new admin interface, particularly the posting one, is wonderful to work with in comparison to the old.

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