I'm hoping one of you ladies who's an expert at WordPress can help me! I've posted this question in the WordPress help forums but maybe I can get a faster answer from one of you.

A couple of months ago I migrated my old domain to my new domain. A couple of weeks ago I set up a 301 redirect to redirect links from my old domain to my new one. I think somewhere along the way something got screwed up.

When I go into my WP dashboard and click on "Plugins" in the side menu bar, it takes me to a new page and says PAGE NOT FOUND. This is happening when I click on "Appearance," "Appearance/Themes," "Plugins," and "Plugins/Installed Plugins."

It appears that plugins.php is pointing to widgets.php; plugin-install.php appears correct but it gives me page not found error; themes.php appears to be pointing to widgets.php; admin.php isn't pointing anywhere.

How can I resolve the problem? I have moderate skills in Wordpress. Will I have to manually upload the latest WordPress in my cpanel or is there a simpler, easier route I can take? Thanks!

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Paulette R.
Romero Communications

How did you set up your redirect? Did you add any new plugins since the problem started?

I would start by replacing the files that seem to be wonky. Either use your cpanel or FTP to do this. If this does not correct the problem then you host may be able to help you.

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Lee Drozak

I replaced the entire wp-admin and wp-includes folder via cpanel and still didn't work. I mean it did update Wordpess to the latest version of wordpress but that's it. In addition I realized that the update-core.php file is also not working so I had to update WordPress manually.

I called my host and they were completely useless because they are not WordPress experts. I posted the question in the wordpress support forum a week ago and still have not received a single response. I just posted a status update asking if any of my friends are wordpress experts. If I dont receive a response by tonight I think I will hire a professional web developer to figure out what the problem is since apparently no one can seem to figure it out.

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Paulette R.
Romero Communications

Did you try disabling the plugins to see if the conflict is there? Sounds like you would need to do that from the back end since you are having issues getting into the dashboard functions.

If that does not work then you need to check your .htaccess file. It my be hidden. If you are using FTP then no problem but if you are using cpanel you will need to show hidden files.

Also, did you check the state of your database. You may want to run a repair to see if there is nothing askew in it.

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Lee Drozak

Hi Paulette,

Do you have a back-up version of the site when everything was still working correctly?

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Tina Caldwell B.K.A TinaTheVA

Originally Posted by leedrozak

Did you try disabling the plugins to see if the conflict is there? Sounds like you would need to do that from the back end since you are having issues getting into the dashboard functions. If that does not work then you need to check your .htaccess file. It my be hidden. If you are using FTP then no problem but if you are using cpanel you will need to show hidden files. Also, did you check the state of your database. You may want to run a repair to see if there is nothing askew in it.

I've already disabled the plugins folder which did work but when I reenabled it, WordPress wouldn't find the folder even though it was there. So I deleted it and uploaded the plugins folder that comes with the latest update of wordpress, but that also did not fix the problem and now it's just back to saying PAGE NOT FOUND.

The .htaccess file has been there the entire time. It's not hidden.

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Paulette R.
Romero Communications

What plugins do you have in the folder? Have any been recently added that could be causing conflict?

If it is not plugins it may be that you could have a corrupt access file.

Rename the .htaccess file (something like .htaccess_old)
Once you have renamed the .htaccess file, try loading your site to see if this solved the problem.

If that does not work you may need to remove the site and reload. Do you have a clean backup from prior to the problem?

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Lee Drozak