Left navigation bar not showing after upgrade to 2.7

Hi, I’m totally new to WordPress. And just installed it at my hosting account. Just log onto the wp-admin and I was greeted with a page whereby the links are cut off on the left side. I can’t even use the admin page properly. Can anyone help me?

Thanks!

glow0109

Can you show us a snapshot of what you mean? Is this problem with the “Dashboard”?

I’m Adrie Silva and if you want I can help you solve this issue. Email me at [email protected]

I am also a host administrator so I would love to have you as a client.

For the issue you are having I would suggest reinstalling wordpress. I’m unsure if you used Fantastico or not. This would help.

It is very simple to install the newer version of wordpress.

1: Download the newest version from https://www.ads-software.com
2: “Extract” the package in your cPanel’s “File Manager”
3: Copy and Rename the file wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php

4: Create a “Database” for all your login info.
5: Create the database with the “mySQL Wizard” located in your cPanel
6: Write down the database name and database user info including the password. When creating a user–give your username “full access/prev.s”

7: Edit the “wp-config.php” file in the File Manager
8: Change the ‘databasename’ with your own database name
9: Change the ‘databaseuser’ with your own database username
10: Change the ‘databasepassword’ with your own database user’s password

That’s that, SAVE and now you can visit your website or blog in a browser. Just type in the address of your website, especially where you installed wordpress..

maybe something like https://mysite.com/wordpress/

Let me know if you need snapshots or a short video tutorial

~Adrie Silva
SilvaPRINTS.com

Hosting ∞ Design ∞ Tutorials

thank you

Brilliant!
I was using the search terms “dashboard” instead of “navigation” so it took a while to find this, even though it’s a STICKY! LOL! ??

I had to deactivate my plugins using FTP. Found my problem was lighter menus. I deleted that, then it all worked like a charm!

I have learned a lesson that when it says to DISABLE ALL PLUGINS before the upgrade, it means just that! LOL

Anyhow, Thanks so much!

I have the same problem but I cannot access the admins menus at all so when I go to follow MichaelH instructions for that problem and he recommend the following: going into “Use phpMyAdmin” or “Create an empty plugins folder”. The problem is that I am completely new to all this and none of that makes any sense – please let me know what I need to do. It’s very frustrating!!

I Thank You jdkwebconsulting.com for helping out a newbie! I was able to muddle through the correction and get it fixed. The navigation is now back –

I tried going to : https://blogsite.com/wp-admin/plugins.php (my blog. But, I got the following message: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

I have seen this “Lighter menus” plugin referred to in other posts on this same subject. But, I know for a fact that I have never installed any plugins with that name. In fact I have never heard of that plugin and have no idea what it is for.

I have tried disabling all the plugins(including changing the value in phpMyAdmin. I have upgraded to WP v2.71(from v2.7), downgraded to WP v2.6, and tried deleting my template.

None of the suggestions I have found have helped. I still have no appearance, plugins, pages, comments or users links on the menu. This happened after making a normal post. no new plugins, upgrades, or theme changes(before the error). No prior problems with WordPress on this blog(2+ years) during previous releases.

HR

Thank you Titanad