Admin bar disappears when I click Visit Site in the Dashboard

  • Resolved sleeplessindc

    (@sleeplessindc)


    5 years, 10 months ago

    I updated WordPress to 5.2.1 and purged the cache. Still on the Admin Dashboard page, I clicked on the Visit Site link in the admin bar. It took me to the home page but the admin bar is no longer available. It is just a white bar now with no active links to get back to the admin dashboard. I’ve tried this on six of my sites and they all respond in the same way. Why is the admin dashboard not working when I’m looking at the site?

    I can get back to the dashboard by adding /wp-admin to the URL but it was much more convienient when the admin bar remained functioning when viewing the site.

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  • Are you saying that the admin bar is there, but looks different and doesn’t work?
    Or are you saying that it’s not there at all?
    The setting for showing the admin bar on the front end is in the User Profile page. If this was not changed, it could be something one of your plugins is doing to interfere with the admin bar.
    I see it working on 5.2.1, so it’s likely your combination of plugins/theme/settings.

    Thread Starter sleeplessindc

    (@sleeplessindc)

    Thanks. The space for the admin bar was there but was all white with no active links. Nothing appeared on hover.

    I don’t know what caused this but it had happened on all my websites after the update. It is working now. Mysterious but no longer a problem.

    Thread Starter sleeplessindc

    (@sleeplessindc)

    Well, I thought it was fixed, but now it happens when I preview a page. The place where the admin bar would normally appear in the viewed page is white instead of black with admin links.

    Thread Starter sleeplessindc

    (@sleeplessindc)

    In addition to the admin bar getting whited out when previewing a change to a page, it is also whited when I click on a different page on the site. It is showing now on the home page when I am in the admin dashboard and click View Site, but not if I am on the home page and click a link in the dropdown menu to go to another page.

    Perhaps related to this is that new images added to the Image Library do not show up in Preview mode–I just get a broken image link. I’ll write a new post for this additional problem in case it isn’t related.

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 10 months ago by sleeplessindc. Reason: fixed typos
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