issues navigating within the admin screens

  • Installed WP 2.5.1, imported existing blog from hosted WP site, having issues navigating within the admin screens. However, my blog appears to be functioning normally for front-end users.

    Issue summary:
    1. On “Manage” screen, my list of posts span multiple pages/screens. When I click on either the specific page number or the “Next>>” link to change pages, the url is incomplete. For example, instead of it directing me to “https://www.example.com/blog/wp-admin/edit.php?paged=2”, it tries to direct me to “https://blog/wp-admin/edit.php?paged=2”, dropping my domain name. If I manually add in the missing part of the url, I am able to access the appropriate page.

    2. “Settings” screen, when click “Save changes” button, get “Page cannot be found” error.

    3. At some point yesterday, I was also getting bad urls with duplicate directories, as opposed to the incomplete urls mentioned above. However, I’m not able to reproduce that issue at this time. I only mention it for context in case it helps point to a common underlying issue. Example, instead of directing to https://www.example.com/blog/wp-admin/edit.php?paged=2″, which is a valid url, it would direct to https://www.example.com/blog/wp-admin/blog/wp-admin/edit.php?paged=2″. Note the duplicate “/blog/wp-admin/”.

    Attempted fixes:
    1. Reset “Permalinks” to default after reading a lot of entries in the forums for issues related to Permalinks.
    2. Attempted to replace “.htaccess” file on server with blank “.htaccess” file after seeing a lot of forum posts related to issues with this file. However, this resulted in no change in functionality.

    Disclosure: I’m a novice coder, just getting into php and have never dealt with system files like “.htaccess”. I tried many searches of forums, but never found a similar issue. It seemed likely that the “.htaccess” file is part of my problem based on other issues I saw, but so far unsuccessful in attempts to fix.

    Any help is appreciated.
    thanks

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  • Thread Starter gaharv

    (@gaharv)

    Correction:
    The navigation issue does appear to affect the front end of blog as well as the admin area. Issue #3 above applies to the front end. When I click “<<Previous Entries” at bottom of main page, it directs me to https://www.example.com/blog/blog/index.php?paged=2&#8243;. Note the duplicate “blog/” directory. Manually removing the duplicate “blog/” allows me to access the appropriate page successfully. This occurs for both “Previous Entries” and “Next Entries”.

    Thread Starter gaharv

    (@gaharv)

    Any suggestions? Thanks in advance for your help.

    what’s the blog address specified on the general settings page? got your site URL in there? I realise you can’t update it, but what’s already in there?

    Thread Starter gaharv

    (@gaharv)

    Thanks for your help.

    Both my “WordPress address (URL)” and my “Blog address (URL)” fields are populated. The value is the same for both fields “https://www.example.com/blog&#8221;. Also, both fields are editable.

    I was having a similar issue. For example when I hit the “save changes” button on the general options page, wp was redirecting to /wp-admin/options.php rather than /wp-admin/options-general.php?updated=true.

    Turns out it was the fault of a buggy theme. Weird, because the theme looked and acted fine from the outside, but it was causing all sorts of problems in the admin panels.

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