Changed Themes, and my Dashboard is stuffed

  • Hi,

    I’m setting up a WordPress site, copied from another one (that I didn’t set up). I’m having a problem with the Theme.

    When I first install WordPress, it’s using the Twenty Thirteen theme. The site I’m copying uses Builder. As soon as I switch the site to the Builder theme, the appearance of the Dashboard changes … and it looks kind of broken (white background, overlapping menus … also, some dashboard features no longer seem to work properly)

    I assume that changing theme changes some template that’s being used in the dashboard? But I don’t know which one.

    Where should I be looking to sort out the problem?

    thanks

    E

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  • Try clearing your browser cache – and any caching on your site as well.

    Changing themes should not change your Dashboard.

    Thread Starter ebaillie

    (@ebaillie)

    Yeah. that’s what I would have thought too. But no good…

    Because this is a copy of another site I have no guarantee that the Builder Theme files are pristine and unchanged … in fact, I expect they’re not. So I’m not totally surprised if something in the theme is broken, I just wasn’t expecting it to have any effect on the admin page. It’s like the admin page is trying to use the same templates as the website pages.

    I also see a bit of bleeding between website and admin on the “original” site I’ve copied from too – in that case, when I go to Users/Your Profile suddenly it turns into the format of the website itself, complete with logos and menus (only…not functionally broken in the way my test site is ??

    Sounds pretty broken indeed – do you have the same problems using a default theme (twentyfifteen)? That’s standard troubleshooting – not a permanent change.

    Thread Starter ebaillie

    (@ebaillie)

    I think I’ve figured out what the issue must be. I can see that, in fact, the dashboard page _must_ make some reference to code from the theme itself, because there are options under ‘appearance’ which change depending on which theme is chosen. And, seeing that there’s an ‘admin’ subdirectory in the theme directory, I guess that’s where the problem is.

    My download may possibly be missing some files that weren’t under source control – not a problem that folks here can help me with! Since the theme itself is quite broken, I think the resolution is probably just to try to get those files from another source

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