Have to refresh to load pages

  • Recent problem: when I’m logged in as Admin, various pages don’t load. Sometimes with actual blog pages; almost always with settings and other Admin-type items. I just get a blank page, with the correct URL indicated. Hitting F5/refresh once or twice fixes it. This happens in both Firefox and Chrome.

    Thought it might be a bloated .htaccess file, which was nearly 300kB. Removing redundand IP block entries (from different plugins) reduced size to <70KB. Pages load faster when they do load, but same hangup occurs just as often. Public (i.e., not logged in) users have reported similar problems loading.

    Where else might one look for the issue? It’s shared hosting (Midphase), so I have no direct server control beyond cPanel.

    Thanks for any help!

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  • kstarcher

    (@kstarcher)

    Have you tried already turning off plugins all together, and one by one, systematically, to see if the problem continues? Sounds like a potential plugin/theme conflict, maybe a caching plugin?

    Also, if you can switch temporarily to another theme like Twenty Sixteen, and see if you still run into the same issues, that would also help narrow it down. If you can authoritatively say the problem still occurs regardless of what plugins or themes you’re running, then you could move on to it being a possible server issue.

    Back everything up first, of course!

    Thread Starter ctenos

    (@ctenos)

    Much obliged for the thoughts, KStarcher. I’ve tried turning off most of the plugins (and deleting inactive ones) – *except* security stuff, since the attack rate is so high. And I don’t have a caching plugin. That didn’t seem to help.

    My domain host kindly rolled the whole install back to an earlier date; I did have off-line copies of later posts, and was able to restore everything quickly. (Thanks yet again, Midphase!) As best I can tell, the public WordPress posts and pages now load just fine. But… When I’m logged in as admin, I still usually have to click “refresh” before a back-end page will load.

    Does that indicate anything?

    Thanks!

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