Plugins and presentation pages result in “cannot display the page”

  • thisbejoe7

    (@thisbejoe7)


    17 years ago

    I made the mistake of copying over the presentation toolkit and skinner plugins for wordpress into my plugins folder. I am running 2.3.3 and modern theme. After I went into the plugins section and activated both plugins, now I have a major problem!!! When I click on the presentation tab or plugins tab I get an error in IE, “internet explorer cannot display this page”. I tried deleting my plugins folder and re-creating to disable all plugins, but this does not help. I also tried deleting my theme from the themes folder and allowing WP to revert to the default theme, but the pages still come up page not found after this as well. I tried to repair my database tables, and this has also not helped. Is there anything that can be done to recover from this situation? I have backup copies of all my folders in my blog, and I have a backup of my database from yesterday. Before I try to restore, is there any option in getting this working again?

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  • ljarratt

    (@ljarratt)

    I’m having a similar problem. I was able to get it back up temporarily by deleting all themes and plugins. Then reloading them one by one after I went to the Presentation and Plugins directories.
    The problem has reoccruued though today.

    Thread Starter thisbejoe7

    (@thisbejoe7)

    I just restored a backup of my database from yesterday, and I still can’t access the presentation or plugins areas in the Wp-admin. Could something have changed actual files somewhere? I don’t understand how a database restore did not fix this. I also deleted the two plugins I had just added, and re-installed a working copy of my theme. Any suggestions?

    Thread Starter thisbejoe7

    (@thisbejoe7)

    Ok, I finally got this resolved. Here is what I did:

    1. backup existing database
    2. delete my wordpress blog installation folder
    3. Download latest wordpress install source and extract to newly created blog installation folder (same name structure).
    4. Restore config file from backup
    5. Restore plugins that I want to use
    6. Restore theme files that I want to use
    7. Restore database backup through phpMyAdmin from yesterday
    8. Verify everything works
    9. Reset some folder permissions
    10. Verify everything works
    11. Restore database backup taken when things weren’t working
    12. Verify things are working.

    I think this will fix things, so far everything is working, just a pain and frustrating that there is no explanation for this.

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