Hello, posted yesterday but at the time did not understand what was going on, so my question is significantly different now.
I am trying to help my mother's church fix their wordpress site, after it got messed up yesterday. She was using the dashboard and accidentally deleted the main page and tried to recreate it. I am not sure exactly what steps she took, as I only looked at it afterwards. But I'm trying to fix it.
The site is stalbansparish.org. For the mean time, I set up a temporary redirect on the main page to a small wordpress blog I made, explaining that the site was down.
All pages get a 500 Internal Server Error, including the wp-admin page. Some pages show an error on random lines of PHP code, as well. I have ftp and cpanel access. I have backed everything up as best I could. I have tried disabling plugins (changing the name of the folder to plugins.hold). I have also tried changing the theme. The theme they currently use is called "homepage." Using some themes I was able to get a simple page with links to load on stalbansparish.org, but it apparently wasn't the actual front page of the site. Also, no theme allowed for the wp-admin page to be reached, even with plugins disabled.
Does anyone have any more ideas for how to reach the wp-admin page? I have read a lot of posts about it on this forum, but none of those solutions have worked yet.
Thanks!