I am not able to edit the Wordpress site at all. The dashboard looks like its not loading css. But also the links are not working, each time I press anything on the bare-looking dashboard, it takes me to Page not found. I am facing this issue because I changed the admin password from phpMyadmin using cPanel. From that moment, this is all messed up. It would be awesome if I get a solution for this. (Ps. I do have a backup of the site but it is old, so it does not have a lot of changes done recently, so I cannot roll back to old version
If you are using any cache plugin, then deactivate it, clear your browser cookies, also try to access it from different IP from another place.
Also, check this link for a better understanding.
my website was running smoothly without any issue but after a long time now I opened admin panel to edit a page but there is no save/publish button is available and also the WYSIWYG controls are also not visible. I tried on Chrome/Firefox/IE/Opera but all browsers are getting same issue. I replaced the post.php file in /wp-admin, but no change happen and the problem remain.
Following is the screenshot of page editor:
What is the way to resolve this issue?
According to the date of this question which belongs to 6 months ago, I think it's resolved now anyhow! But I just try to share my similar experience.
For my case, the hosting company had some update and migration. In
their new configuration, the Permission/Ownership of the WordPress
directory did not match with the new web server configuration.
I had to change all the permissions of files to 644 and I had to make sure all the directory got 755.
You should have 'root' access to the server or ask your hosting company to fix it. Also, it's better to check this post as well.
I've migrated a Wordpress theme onto my localhost for some dev work. I'm trying to install a new plugin, and weird things are happening.
If I install the plug-in manually by dragging the file into the wp-content>plugins folder, the plugin never shows up on the admin panel.
If I install the plug-in through the admin panel (by search or by upload), it shows up and activates on the admin side, but then the files for the plugin are nowhere to be seen on my harddrive. I searched in the plugin folder, nothing. I searched the entire computer. nothing.
Interesting, from the admin panel itself the files are shown when I click "edit". Does anyone know why this is happening?
Thank you!
figured out the answer. Turned out I didn't update the wp_option table of the database, so I was literally logging into the admin from the old site. Doh. Thanks all!
did you update the home url and site url in your wp_options? Sounds like you are logging into the backend of the live website
I've made a clean install of Wordpress on my server and added WooCommerce plugin. Now, some of the pages in the admin panel doesn't display correctly (Dashboard, Media, WooCommerce, etc.).
This is a clean install, only WooCommerce plugin is active.
Do you have any idea why this is happening?
Thanks
Ok so there is VERY little information to go on here so here is the general "Wordpress Broke" debugging guide.
Disable WooCommerce and see if Wordpress goes back to normal. If this is the case then you have to Reinstall WooCommerce. This is where http://docs.woothemes.com/document/known-conflicts would come in handy
If it is still broken without any plugins then you have to check your directory permissions, file structure, and URL Structure.
99% of the time chrome devtools will be your best friend for debuging these problems. It looks like you are not loading some of the core CSS files so lets look to see if you have a a 404, 403, or 500 error when chrome requests them.
Open up chrome and go to the Wordpress admin
Right click anywhere on the page and "Inspect Element"
Look for the red error icon on the right side (top/bottom) and click it to expend the console.
You will probably see the failed requests in there. Make sure the requests are for the correct urls, such as: http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/load-styles.php or http://yourdomain.com/wp-includes/js/thickbox/thickbox.css
If that are valid URLs and you have verified that the files exist on the server then you have to check directory permissions: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
Best wishes, let me know how it goes
I have seen that problem quite a while right now. You can try adding a specialized theme that has WooCommerce support like BootFrame Core theme. Or any other themes supporting WooCommerce -> https://wordpress.org/themes/search/woocommerce/ . Once, I used a WooCommerce, installed the plugin before changing any theme and had to create a new DB because the one I made before got corrupted due to the theme not working with WooCommerce. It's just a rare case but it can happen.
I'm having a very simple problem. I'm new to WordPress and I'm trying to install a plugin.
Everyone says there's a "plugins" option on the sidebar-menu in the admin panel, but I don't see one! I've looked for it in all the sub-menus too.
Whenever I try to search for this problem, I get results about creating a plugin to show on the admin menu.
Anyway, how can I get the plugins menu to show up?
The issue is almost certainly related to one of two things:
1) You don't have permissions (are you logged in as admin?)
OR
2) The theme (or a plugin) has disabled the plugins menu.
After you've checked to be sure that you are an administrator, then you should attempt to view this page:
http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-admin/plugins.php (replacing www.yourdomain.com with your site's domain name).
If it's accessible, then it's time to start exploring the theme (which theme are you using?) and possibly some of the plugins that might have disabled the menu item.
FYI, the method to remove dashboard menu items is covered here: http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-remove-menus-in-wordpress-dashboard
If you did double check your file permissions (i.e. 755 for folders and 644 for wordpress files on Linux), please consider editing your wp-config.php file and change
define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS',true);
to
define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS',false);
The Add New option in Plugins menu will show up, also if you have internet connection, possible updates will be shown up.
This what I found looking for the same problem, I guess this is your situation also:
If your site is hosted on WordPress.com:
Plugins: Plugins are tools used to extend the functionality of the WordPress platform. However, they are only applicable to self-hosted blogs and web sites using the WordPress.org software. Plugins are not permitted here at WordPress.com for various security reasons.
On wordpress.com hosted sites, you don't have permission to install plugins. You must have an own wordpress installation to do that.
I found this post searching for help with a similar issue with a self-hosted WordPress installation -- in this case it was a site that a friend had paid someone to make, but then took them off the work and asked me to help out.
There were several regular menu options missing -- it turned out to be down to a plugin called Admin Menu Editor that the previous web guy had installed to limit the options available to my friend, so they wouldn't mess with things.
In this case I could access the options for Admin Menu Editor by going to http://www.example.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=menu_editor
In one of my cases it turned out to be strictly file permission thing so apache users could not access the plugins directory.
I have never seen that problem before. However, try either expanding all the current menu items to see if "plugins" are listed there, or try deactivating some/all of your plugins to see if one of the plugins are conflicting somehow and making your plugins menu not display.
I know this is an old question but I hit this problem at work recently with a WordPress site I inherited that had been originally developed by an external company. I tracked it down to the roles assigned to the user account. The "admin" account I had been given was actually assigned a restricted role that didn't have permission to access most of the settings.
Fortunately, I have access to the database so I was able to modify the assigned role directly. The default database prefix in WordPress is wp but you may need adjust these steps according to your own database.
First, find the user_id in the wp_users table for the account you want to modify and then run the following SQL against your WordPress database.
UPDATE wp_usermeta SET meta_value = "a:1:{s:13:""administrator"";b:1;}" WHERE user_id = {your_user_id} AND meta_key = "wp_capabilities";
UPDATE wp_usermeta SET meta_value = "10" WHERE user_id = {your_user_id} AND meta_key = "wp_user_level";
The next time you log in with that user account it should now have administrator privileges.
If you are using the multisite feature of Wordpress you will only see the plugins menu if you are super admin.
In the menu go to "My Sites" at the top of the page then click "Network Admin". (If you do not have this option you are not super admin.) Under "Network Admin" click "Dashboard" and then the plugins menu will appear. In your Network settings you can enable plugins for the sites.
The issue I was having was even trickier: No one was super admin. I fixed this by overwriting the "is_super_admin" function (simply returning true always) and then editing the settings as needed, before removing the overwrite again.
If you install a local WordPress the Plugins sub menu will not appear for any of the sites you work. Click My Sites area at the top of the page then click Network Admin and then click Dashboard. The Plugins sub menu will appear there. Then install new plugins and use it on sites on which you are working.
Good luck.
For me, changing lines in wp-config.php worked. I changed:
define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true);
define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true);
to
define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', false);
define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', false);
There might be a couple of reasons for the same. Some of them are:-
Reason 1 - When the website is hosted on wordpress.com
Reason 2 - When the user is logged in with a non-admin account
Reason 3 - When the WordPress website/blog is a part of a multi-site-network and the network admin has disabled the plugin menu
Reason 4 - Plugins Conflict