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I tried to upgrade Wordpress and the whole blog vanished!

by Sumit Menon
16 replies
Hey,

I tried to upgrade Wordpress to 2.9.1. It failed and gave a maintenance notice.

With a little research I found that you need to delete a certain .maintenance file.. I did.

Now, it doesn't show anything on my blog.

http://www.sumitmenon.com/ (Is it working for you?)

I don't know where the problem is. Is it my Firefox cache or the blog contents or database...?

What do I do?

Thanks,
Sumit.
#blog #upgrade #vanished #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Herod
    No, it is not there for me either.

    I hope that you backed it up before you tried to upgrade.

    If you backed it up all you need to do is re-upload your database.

    That should fix the problem.

    Talk soon,

    Shannon Herod
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    • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
      Originally Posted by Shannon Herod View Post

      No, it is not there for me either.

      I hope that you backed it up before you tried to upgrade.

      If you backed it up all you need to do is re-upload your database.

      That should fix the problem.

      Talk soon,

      Shannon Herod
      Yes.. I backup everyday. Thanks.. Let me try this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lynette Crase
    Hi

    I had this happen the other day and it was a plugin that wasn't compatible so I went into my ftp software and deleted the suspected plugin (wp-sticky) and the blog worked fine after that. This may be your problem.

    Lynette
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  • Profile picture of the author sridhar
    Sumit:

    Try the following

    Add

    Code:
    error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 1);
    to the very beginning of wp-config.php directly after the first "<?php"

    Refresh your blog and see if anything shows up.
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    HTML/PSD to WP and WordPress Setup
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    • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
      Originally Posted by sridhar View Post

      Sumit:

      Try the following

      Add

      Code:
      error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set('display_errors', 1);
      to the very beginning of wp-config.php directly after the first "<?php"

      Refresh your blog and see if anything shows up.
      It shows this:

      Warning: require(/home/sumitmen/public_html/wp-includes/meta.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/sumitmen/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 364
      Is this the directory where the problem is?
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  • Profile picture of the author Asher
    Hi Sumit,

    I don't see anything on your site.

    Might wanna try sridhar's suggestion or seek
    help from your host.

    Asher
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  • Profile picture of the author David
    relax (maybe) do what Lynette suggested
    see if you can still FTP in
    godaddy has a file manager, log in by either method and rename the offending plug in
    name it anything other than what it was (for example plugin to pluginold, just like in the dos days)
    ... or if you don't know what that plug in is, rename the last one you installed

    see if your blog comes back
    go to yourblog.com/wp-admin
    and look at the plug ins, you should get a message to the effect of plugin (whatever) doens't work, remove it from the wp-admin
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    Lawyer Local SEO - |

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    • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
      Originally Posted by David View Post

      relax (maybe) do what Lynette suggested
      see if you can still FTP in
      godaddy has a file manager, log in by either method and rename the offending plug in
      name it anything other than what it was (for example plugin to pluginold, just like in the dos days)
      ... or if you don't know what that plug in is, rename the last one you installed

      see if your blog comes back
      go to yourblog.com/wp-admin
      and look at the plug ins, you should get a message to the effect of plugin (whatever) doens't work, remove it from the wp-admin
      I didn't install any plugin.. I updated the All-In-One SEO though. Let me try...
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    • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
      Originally Posted by David View Post

      relax (maybe) do what Lynette suggested
      see if you can still FTP in
      godaddy has a file manager, log in by either method and rename the offending plug in
      name it anything other than what it was (for example plugin to pluginold, just like in the dos days)
      ... or if you don't know what that plug in is, rename the last one you installed

      see if your blog comes back
      go to yourblog.com/wp-admin
      and look at the plug ins, you should get a message to the effect of plugin (whatever) doens't work, remove it from the wp-admin
      Nope.. It didn't. I'll try restoring the database I guess....
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  • Profile picture of the author Heidi White
    are you hosting with Hostgator? if you were, they could look at the file for you and probably fix it with Live Chat in about 10 minutes. That's why I love Hostgator vs Godaddy (which makes you call - and probably not 24/7)
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    • Profile picture of the author David
      Originally Posted by MostlyHarmless View Post

      are you hosting with Hostgator? if you were, they could look at the file for you and probably fix it with Live Chat in about 10 minutes. That's why I love Hostgator vs Godaddy (which makes you call - and probably not 24/7)
      nope, untrue
      I've called godaddy 24/7/365 even on Christmas day

      I'm wanting to move a couple domains on Hostgator just so I'm not all godaddy and godaddy's ip range (not sure if spreading the ip addys out still makes a difference for SEO anymore) but I'm super happy with Godaddy's customer service.
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      Lawyer Local SEO - |

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  • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
    I reinstalled the old database... Didn't work. What next?
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
    Banned
    Reupload the Wordpress files. You can download an older version from Wordpress.org
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    • Profile picture of the author Sumit Menon
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      Reupload the Wordpress files. You can download an older version from Wordpress.org
      Might as well try that...
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  • Profile picture of the author druwainwright
    Ii have had similer problems. As good as word press is i tend to stick to dream weaver....
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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      Can you remember what the .maintenance file that you deleted was called and where you deleted it from?

      I'm just wondering if reinstating it - even if it's blank - might help. At the moment there's nothing showing, even if you type in sumitmenon.com/wp-admin
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