Dashboard inaccessible but rest of site seems OK

  • When I log in I get a message at wp-admin: “There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.” There are no emails to me; the site is working well, as far as I can tell; I can access /wp-admin/plugins.php, /wp-admin/edit.php as well as other parts of the structure but wp-admin/ by itself gives the error message, not the dashboard.

    The critical error message is essentially content-free. It gives no clue about what the problem is or what to do next. Nor is the Troubleshooting FAQ any help on this. I’ve tried changing the plugins directory to plugins.hold — to no effect.

    What else could be the problem?

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    I no longer know what problem we’re trying to solve. What error message to you get when you try to access wp-admin? And why are you using a 2018 GA plugin? My preferred GA plugin is “google site kit”. And what does “the header link has reverted to numerical” mean? How about starting a new topic? And this time include a link to your site.

    Thread Starter jnilles

    (@jnilles)

    To repeat: wp-admin allows me to log in and then produces: “There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.” I do not get any message in my site admin email box.

    I can circumvent the above situation by going to wp-admin/edit.php. The rest of the site appears to be functioning OK except that I cannot get to the dashboard even though I can make new posts.

    I’m now not using the 2018 GA plugin; it caused a white screen so I deleted it.

    The header I referred to above is what one gets when clicking on the More button in an abbreviated post. For example, from my new post:
    https://www.jalahq.com/blog/slowly-slowly-then-all-of-a-sudden/#more-1054.
    But since it worked properly for this new post I retract the comment.

    As you can see, the site is https://www.jalahq.com/blog/

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    Please… start a new topic.

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