Cannot load index.php when going to DASHBOARD

If I log out, clear cookies and log in I can get to the Dashboard screen, however if I click DASHBOARD again i get the “Cannot Load index.php” error again.

going to https://www.design-studio.com/wp-admin/ gets me to dashboard

but https://www.design-studio.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=index.php gets me the error.

Yes, I have reinstalled the wp-admin/index.php with a fresh one. Still same effect.

grrrrrrrrr

odd

FOUNT IT!!!

WordPress Admin Bar plugin is the issue….

in settings for that plugin you need to UNCHECK…

Show the admin bar/In the admin area

and all comes back for me.

yeah!!!!!!!!!!

I also have problems with the dashboard link in the admin area. When I click the link (https://mydomain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=index.php) it redirects me to my root index instead of the first page of the admin area of the dashboard.

I don’t have admin bar plugin installed..

I can’t figure it out.

Ok, I found an 8 month old answer to this; I renamed index.php in the plugin-folder to index.html. This fixed the problem.

Why did this problem start in the first place, I don’t know.

Thanks alansmith78 your solution worked for me as well. I was about to lose a couple of hairs over this.