WordPress Dashboard is not loading! What to do?
Today, I was irritated to see that I was unable to login into my wordpress blog dashboard. Even the url blogrpro.com/wp-admin/ didn’t load at all. All I saw was a blank page. After then I have started loading blogrpro.com/wp-login.php. It actually loads the login page. But still I am not able to login into my dashboard because it shows an empty page once again.
So what happened to this blog at all! This happened already to us and we have successfully solved those things. What may be the reasons for this problem? They are:
- WordPress Update may be the first problem. I have updated my blog software to the latest one and after then only I got so many problems.
- Plugins may be too. Some wordpress plugins are injecting scripts / codes into the wordpress dashboard actually. Such code may contain any error specific code.
- Themes will be one thing. Sometimes wordpress themes will lead you to see such problems.
- Web hosting service may be. Yes definitely.
So how I have solved this problem? Here it is.
- Renamed my wordpress themes folder from wp-content/themes to wp-content/themes_bak.
- Then just went to blogrpro.com/wp-admin/ to login into my wordpress account. Successfully logged in.
- Also checked whether the blogrpro.com/wp-admin/ page is loading in an another browser. But nothing happens as usual.
- Since I have changed the themes folder name, my blog’s design was entirely collapsed. So once again renamed the folder back to themes from themes_bak. Now, my blog was in perfect design once again.
- Then disabled the plugins one by one and checked whether the blogrpro.com/wp-admin/ page is loading in an another browser.
- After then I have solved this problem. The problem is with some of my plugins which actually uses more memory. Plugins which use so many database queries in form of updation/addition of data in your database requires more memory and I have avoided using them at this time.
Moral of this post is avoid using too many plugins in your wordpress blog.
Note: Don’t ever go to your Themes / Widgets section in your wordpress blog dashboard after renaming your themes folder.
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Aug 24, 2009 @ 2:14 PM
Even I too faced this problem once after installing a theme (I forgot its name), but since I am using WordPress MU, I was able to go to the dashboard of one of my other blogs and from there I accessed the admin page and changed the theme of the blog I was using
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Aug 24, 2009 @ 5:02 PM
@John Samuel,
That’s a very good tip John.
Aug 31, 2009 @ 2:57 AM
Thanks – this helped me resolve the same issue you had with the empty dashboard. It ended up being an SMS plugin that I had never used but which was activated
All back to normal now
Stuart
Aug 31, 2009 @ 3:36 PM
@Stuart,
Glad to see you here.
And also happy to know that this article helped you to get rid of problems.
Jan 06, 2010 @ 7:39 PM
I had the same problem after upgrading my wordpress (I hadn’t upgraded or really checked the site for around 3 years!)
I had over 65,000 comments ALL marked as spam. the admin panel worked, it was just the dashboard which didn’t. I couldn’t use WP to delete – I had to do an SQL statement to remove them.
The dashboard then worked perfectly! Hope maybe this helps someone in the future.
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May 11, 2010 @ 5:02 PM
Thanks!!!
I couldn’t have thought it could be the “Theme”
I have added “arabic” support i.e. rtl direction to the theme, and apperently, I miss placed a php/html tag somewhere …
Thanks again.
May 20, 2010 @ 10:22 PM
I am seriously annoyed with whatever is happening to my WordPress blog. I tried everything listed in your blog post. Please help i have tried to deactivate plugins and check but no sign.
Jul 24, 2010 @ 6:10 AM
Thank you so much, Karthikeyan. It is 7:05pm on a Friday night and I made the mistake of assuming I could do a very quick update to my blog by checking what a new theme would look like…
and BAM!
bad mistake. my entire site went blank, including my dashboard!
thanks to you and your great advice. changing the themes to themes_bak using my FTP account was the trick!
I couldn’t even find this solution on the wordpress site.
you ROCK!!! keep up the good work.
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Jul 26, 2010 @ 10:47 AM
it happened again, i totally dissappointed with my web host looking to change it… suggest a cheap and good one..
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