Sonic.net

After the recent Wordpress upgrade I can no longer access the admin pages for themes or plugins. All other admin pages come up. I get an error message that Wordpress can't find the page, themes.php or plugins.php. Though I can see them on the site with my FTP client. Plus the site takes 3 minutes to load. I assume there is a connection between these two problems since they both started after the upgrade.
Site is blindjoedave.com

Also the .htaccess file is there and reads;

Action php-cgi /cgi-bin/php53
Addhandler php-cgi .php
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I had the same problem until I tweaked the "Action" line by adding "php53"; after that, everything went back to normal. I assume you're fiddling with the .htaccess file at the root of your site and not someplace else in the WordPress file hierarchy.

Thanks, yes I did add the php53 to the .htaccess file at the root of the site. No luck

It sounds like one or more of your plugins might have a compatibility problem with the latest version of Wordpress. I recommend checking out the guide at Wordpress.org for more information - specifically, you'll want to try out the 'Disable all plugins' option to get to narrow down which plugins are causing trouble.

Therein lies the problem. I can't disable plugins because I can't get to wp-admin/plugins.php. When I try to access plugs from the admin page there is a minute or two delay and then it displays my home page. Same thing happens when I try to access theme.php

There's an alternate method (via FTP) at the following page. Once you've disabled plugins that way (rename the plugins directory per the instructions), you should be able to at the very least manage your install through the admin pages.

If you check out the bottom of the post I originally linked, there are instructions for fixing common plugins that broke with the update - there's a good chance you have one of them installed.

I disabled plugins via FTP by renaming the existing plugin directory and substituting an empty plugin directory. This corrected the load time problem, that's good. However, when I try to access the themes.php or plugin.php from the dashboard it brings up my home page. It appears to be redirecting, although the correct path still appears in the toolbar.

This happened to all my Wordpress blogs at Sonic at the same time. Support and I went back and forth for a bit but they figured out that "there was a line in your .htaccess file that was forcing php5 instead of php53." The fix works. Also, though I did not lose access to update pages until a few days ago, I was never able to install Jetpack (it gave me the same error). Now I can.

Cyndi