What’s wrong with my dashboard? (screen cap picture included)

OK. I started reading through the pathway of links above, and I found a reference to something working after the use of the refresh button.

So I tried it, and it worked.

Can that be explained?

My problem is back again, on all three blogs at the same time again.

I no longer have the option of updating to the latest version.

Can somebody help me with this?

As far as I can tell, this problem has nothing to do with plug-ins. In fact, one of the three blogs that was effected had no activity from the time I first fixed it until when the problem reappeared other than spam comments.

Seems most likely it is a hack of some sort.

I downloaded the files for WordPress 2.8.4, and then copied them wholesale to my host using Filezilla FTP, overwriting all the existing files. After doing so, when I first logged in, I still had the bad screen, but when I refreshed, the regular screen came back. Randomly I had problems on the comments screens, and on the new post screens, but a refresh also fixed those.

I hope this will be addressed in the next release.

I also hope I don’t have to reload the software every couple weeks in order to keep it working.

Two weeks have gone by, and I have the same problem again.

One blog, the one with no activity, is unaffected.

A second, I reloaded the program via FTP, and its working again.

The 3rd, I reloaded the program, and the problem persists.

This is so unbelievably frustrating that I want to scream!!!!!!!!!

Started checking the uploaded version of the program files against the downloaded version I had saved on my hard drive for version 2.8.4.

I found that the Mozilla FTP program was not consistently uploading and overwriting the files. As I checked (file by file) I found that none of the sizes of the first tier files in the folder wp-admin matched the sizes in the downloaded version I had of release 2.8.4.

I reuploaded these files individually so I could see they were all actually getting transferred, and the control panel reset itself. Still needed to refresh after I logged in fresh to get it to do so.

It would appear that the file that is getting corrupted is in the wp-admin folder. Its in the first tier of the folder, not in one of the sub folders.

Same problem again, all three blogs.

Tried same solution as last time (reloading first tier files in the wp-admin folder) and it didn’t work.

Upgraded to version 2.9 and dashboard is now working again.

I remain extremely frustrated.

ntheroad,

Read the information at https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/11-vital-tips-and-hacks-to-protect-your-wordpress-admin-area/ and be sure to do tip number 7 right away. Use htaccess to protect the wp-admin directory to allow only your IP address and deny others (tip # 6) if you are the only author. Use tip # 5 if there are additional authors on your blog.

Thanks for your response sleeplessinDC.

I did #7. If I don’t post here again, it worked.

You have to be signed in under the new user name to delete the admin user, just for reference for anyone else that comes across this.

I didn’t try the other, because I post from multiple locations.

I am stilling getting this after following the steps..

I even have it on this forum on firefox but not chrome???

So annoying

Any thoughts?

forum ok now