Admin panel CSS all gone?

How did you input your styles? Are you referring to modifications you made or the theme styles?

the image link is of a BB Press plugin.

Please post a link to your site and explain exactly what the problem is?

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

the image link is of a BB Press plugin.

Nope, not BB Press – just a plain old WP install, with a custom theme I made (only the frontend)

The site itself is fine:

https://www.mywebsitedesignersblog.com/

…only the admin-cp that seems to be broken ??

TIA

Andy

BTW, I have tried clearing out the W3 Total Cache “cache”, as well as the cache on my browser – but still no joy

so what you’re saying is that you customized the admin styles and now those are gone?

if they are still loading, but ineffective or displaying inaccurately then the classes have probably changed in the 4.0 version…

can’t you just remove your custom styling and use wordpress default?

or am I misunderstanding completely?

Hi,

I have not customized the admin styles what-so-ever. All that I changed, is the theme for the visitor bit (i.e what my users see). The admin I have never touched (or would even know where to look! hehe) … so I’m at a bit of a loss as to why it would suddenly break (I’ve done tons of upgrades the exact same way before, which is what makes it even weirder)

TIA

Andy

what is broken in your admin, exactly?

Try and change your theme to twentyfourteen, refresh your browser and look at the admin again. Does it look different now?

Mmm ok well that fixes the admin panel, but then its obviously got the wrong design for the main site. As soon as I change it back to my custom theme, it them breaks the sidebar styling (its a white background, and any pop-out menus have no backgrounds, so you can’t read them properly).

Surely my custom design won’t affect that, as its not even related to the admin ones?

I don’t know what it is about your theme that is breaking the admin.

You said you created this theme yourself? Maybe use a blank-type theme that is more up-to-date and 4.0 compatible and rebuild using your existing styles.

Try something that is responsive while you’re at it and improve the user experience.

Or you can post a request on the jobs link here in the footer to see if you can find someone to troubleshoot and update your current theme, but I wouldn’t really recommend that at this point.

Hi

Thanks – yeah it was just one I knocked up using this basic set, and then wrapped my own design in it:

https://www.blogseye.com/convert-a-web-page-to-a-wordpress-theme-in-5-minutes/ (I did this a good 2-3 years ago btw, thus the lack of responsive design… I shudder looking at it now, but don’t have time to redo it)

TBH, the site doesn’t make me any money, and I don’t really wanna spend any time on it. Maybe I’ll have a look on fiverr.com to see if I can find someone to troubleshoot it. Bit annoyed really, as I only upgraded it to get security fixes – didn’t realise it was gonna cause all this grief ??

Thanks for your help though.

Andy