Having trouble with taking over old WordPress site

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kaycochrane
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Hi I am a graphic designer that has began coding. I am running into issues with a job as I am not familiar with taking over an old site. The site was build in Wordpress and I have updated the DNS and MX records as per advice from the old developer. He isn't giving up the logins for cpanel or wordpress - I've created the new login for cpanel (something I'm new to) and have installed wp in a subdirectory - but when I get to http://www.pearlwhitedental.co.uk/dir/wp-admin/ I can't see anywhere to log in. Am I missing something?

I am still tracking down the log in for the registrar as this domain was purchased 7 years ago and no one thought to write it down. The old developer is pointing the nameservers to InMotion for me and has asked for a ISP TAG which I think I get from the old host, which I will need to wait for the client on.

Any advice is much welcome - I thought this would be a little more straightforward but keep running into issues!
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christopherm
Hello kaycochrane, Thank you for your questions about WordPress and taking over an older site. Before starting to change anything make sure to take a backup of everything. It looks like the theme may have been heavily self-coded, and the login page could have been coded to use a different template. You can try renaming the functions.php file in the theme folder (but don't erase it), or, a safer option would be switching to a default WordPress theme to get logged into the admin menu. Best, Christopher M.