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WordPress URL was changed... how to fix it.

A user with admin permissions changed the URL of our WordPress site. This, of course, caused the site to be unreachable. After major frustration, and frantic searching, I asked friends on the SharePoint-Community.net for help. Was referred to this URL: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL What worked for me was a two step process: Since I had just upgraded the WordPress site the day before to the newest version (at the time 3.6.1), I had backup files on an external hard drive. I tried first doing a hack on the Functions.php file in the theme. That gave us a login prompt but nothing else. I tried editing the wp-config.php file, but at first it didn't seem to work. So I went ahead and rolled back the files from the day before. Then I tried one more time with wp-config.php as follows (from the codex.wordpress.org site above): Edit wp-config.php It is possible to set the site URL manually in the wp-config.php file. Add these two lines to your wp-config....
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Upgrading WordPress manually

Every time I have to do this, I have to look up the instructions, so I thought why not write down my steps this time. So here goes: For reasons unbeknownst to me our WordPress site never allows us to apply Upgrades, apply updates to plugins or themes automatically. So I end up having to go download the needed files and remote to my server. See WordPRess's full explanations of upgrading here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress 1) Make a backup of the Wordpress and PHP directories. If you don't have an automatic backup in place of the MySQL database, back that up too. 2) Deactivate plugins that are being updated 2) Download all needed files 3) Extract needed files 4) Upload files to server 5) Copy files to appropriate directories. Remember to reactivate your plugins.
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