Blog Dashboard Display Page Problem

  • I have a WP blog that displays blog entries properly when a client goes to the site at https://www.cookgore.com/blog/. I want to retrieve all our blog content to be added to another site with WP.

    However, when I login to the wp-admin to do anything, e.g., post another blog, edit a blog, update the version, etc., the Dashboard shows ONLY the menu. The remainder of the page to the right is completely blank. The menu items appear to be working but the display on the rest of the page remains blank.

    I do not know how long this has been a problem. I just took over management of the site.

    It seems the version is 3.3.2, but the menu system shows that there are ” Updates 7″.

    So, I suppose this is likely the problem.

    I cannot determine what theme is in use.

    The menu system shows that I have “Plugins 3” but cannot tell what they are or do anything with or about them.

    I get no error messages.

    I can get into the file structure of the blog via FTP but cannot find the texts of the blog posts. I do not know how to look for them. I have only found a lot of PHP and image files.

    I am running Win7 Home Premium, SP 1, and the latest Firefox browser. The latest version of IE is no different. Flushing the caches helps nothing.

    My question is should I re-install WP on the website or would I lose all the blog posts?

    Is there any other trouble-shooting or corrections I can try?

    Thank you, very much, for your help.

    Paul

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  • Bill

    (@chubbycrow)

    First off, all of your posts and pages are stored in the database, so you won’t see them amongst the WP files and folders. Also, your theme is called “News” and is fairly old so who knows if it’s been kept up; it doesn’t seem to have been. The author’s site is here.

    I would go onto the server and see if there are plugins, and if so, disable them. Then switch to a WP default theme if one is present in the themes directory. Get back to a bare-bones WP installation.

    Below are instructions for disabling your plugins and active theme as a basic troubleshooting step.

    If you can’t access your admin pages, you’ll need to use an FTP client (like FileZilla), or your host’s cpanel (or File Manager) and navigate to the files on the server.

    In your WP installation there, find wp-content/plugins and rename that plugin folder to something like plugins-hold. That will disable all plugins and maybe allow you to get back a functional WP admin. If so, rename the folder back to the original. Then you can start re-activating plugins until you find the problem one(s).

    If that doesn’t do it, likewise rename your active theme’s folder found in wp-content/themes/ so that WP will use a default WP theme temporarily. That way you can rule out whether the theme is at fault or not. What you learn will help to determine where to go from there.

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