Here was my sticky situation: I had cause to clear my pc’s private data over the weekend, so when I went to check out my thriving (!) blog this Monday morning, there was no site admin button. For those of you without a blog, that’s an important button that let’s you get behind your blog to the inner workings, as it were. That’s where you post, change your blog’s appearance, and generally feel like the Master of Your Domain. I spent a few (maybe 10) helpless minutes doing the following: looking at my site through Dreamweaver, no help there; logging on to Wordpress.com (ditto); and trying to log on to Wordpress.org but in my initial panic, typing in the wrong username and/or password, then emailing the .org people, which I know will annoy them because they don’t support the files you’ve put on your own server–that’s your (or rather my) job.
Finally, I calmed down, managed to log in, and went to the Forum of Support where all things have been discussed since the dawn of Wordpress because let’s face it, everyone has pretty much already had every problem that I’m going to encounter, both in blogging and in my life. And there, under a snitty response to some other much more clueless user than me, were the words “login to your blog at yourdomainname/blog/wp-admin.” Oh yeah! Thank you snitty, superior Wordpress God. Thank you.
My lesson is clear: When things go wrong, don’t be a headless chicken. Take the time and read the forums. No, I’m just having you on. Obviously the lesson is do not under any circumstances try to post on a Monday.