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Maximiliane Quel
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Maximiliane Quel
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Posted by Maximiliane Quel
Maximiliane Quel
Courses Plus Student 55,489 Points

WP Admin area is a blank page

Hi,

I was working converting a bootstrap prototype into a wordpress site and all of a sudden I cannot get into the dashboard.

I am working locally and while I am not entirely certain I believe the issue started when I set 

add_filter('show_admin_bar', '__return_false');

when I set that and then commented it out I first got an issue with the admin_bar not reappearing in chrome, yet firefox was fine. I kept working on the theme templates and the next thing I now is that ever time I press update for a post or page I am led to an empty page with the path ending in /post.php at this point I am still able to get back into the dashboard typing out the /wp-admin part

since then my browser history and cache have been emptied

now if I go on to the local url I get to the page itself fully functional, but do not get an admin bar. if I complete the path to /wp-admin I am let to a completely blank page. I can't therefore log into the dashboard. I have taken out the function since.

I am completely baffled by this behaviour. the only files I touched were template files and the only changes I made in the admin area were adding post text and images to the media library.

I can of course just try and use a new clean wordpress install, but I am worried since I don't know what causes the issue that transferring any of the template code will just cause the problem to reappear. not to mention that it would be good if I new what went wrong to avoid the problem next time.

any ideas where the issue could be? ideally I want to avoid having to upload the entire code.

can anyone help?

2 Answers

Brian Goldstein
Brian Goldstein
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Brian Goldstein
Brian Goldstein
19,419 Points

The first, last and best resource for WP issues is the codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Login_Trouble . run through that article and if that doesn't fix it, do a clean install and 2x check your theme files before installing that theme again. I highly suggest that you make a child theme of a theme that works on all WP installs, whether that's twenty-thirteen or a "base theme" like Underscores (http://underscores.me/) or Roots (http://roots.io/)

Maximiliane Quel
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Maximiliane Quel
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Maximiliane Quel
Maximiliane Quel
Courses Plus Student 55,489 Points

thanks.

I've run a clean install and and it worked just fine. I'm still wondering what went wrong though and ideally I want to know where to look (in the code that is) to troubleshoot. I will run through the buggy version when I find some time, but I thought someone would have had a similar experience or now where those issues usually come from