Roger

I have just decided to use the full-feed plugin that apparently addresses this issue.

I looked to see if 2.2 addresses the issue but looking at ‘Trac’ I couldn’t out if it does and apparently Paul is also struggling and he uses 2.2.

I find it a bit shocking that so many have this problem yet somehow it wasn’t addressed in 2.2. If this many people are having a problem its not random.

Anyway if you want to see my site and see that it works now click the link above I won’t be cheeky and add my website again as I know the Google Juice is good on this domain and I respect that.

Thanks

Me too on 2.1. Upgrading one of my blogs to 2.2 in the hope this will resolve the issue.

Its a problem on all my sites including my number 1 (see below)

https://www.techwinter.com

I have disabled the re-direct for now.

Akanowicz I don’t think the two are associated. I have tested my site afterwards and many times after that and it works just fine, but suddenly I come back like the next day and it doesn’t work e.g. the theme switch occurred.

Oh well as long as they are aware ultimately that means it will get fixed – Fingers crossed

Thanks, I have posted on the other location also I made a mistake and I should have said I was at 2.1.2.

I found a great host that upgrades my blogs upon request so am pretty happy to say I will never fall behind on my upgrades again.

Thanks for the help.

@otto42,

Sewmyheadon alerted me to this being a non-unique issue as I am having the problem too and yes it is very bad to delete the Default theme.

This is what will happen, WP will search as Otto alluded to for the default and not finding it it will switch to no theme and therefore your site becomes inaccessable e.g nothing gets displayed.

It was quite a shock for me to find my website gone the other day and therefore I would highly recommend NOT deleting the Default theme.

@otto any idea how long until this gets released as 2.1.3? This is a pretty big deal for many of us, it may not be a security issue but it certainly is critical.

Thanks

@stefan

I think you are talking over my head a bit. Not sure I follow what you are saying. Can you say it differently, I am not much a coder (see pointy haired guy in dilbert for similarities).

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moshu, I hear you on the human errors but to be honest I am pretty sure a plugin did this.

Why? Because I have deleted a plugin in the past(had a backup so repaired asap) that when I decided to remove it, this error appeared. It had been a while ago so I forgot and cleared out some deadwood plugins today.

Also the error occurred literally right after I deleted 3 plugins. Now it is possible I deleted something else but anything to do with my header if deleted is more likely to cause a significant problem other than a cosmetic one like this (I would think-am I wrong?).

Also I could get on board because of the plugin problem before with a corrupt file but am not sure what I can do about finding such a file.

Hmmmm, by the way I went into admin-header.php and deleted the < there as well and now the dashboard is fixed. So I can hobble along like this but I am worried this could cause problems in the future.

Should I just wait until 2.0.4 comes out in a few days and when I upgrade maybe the corrupt file will be overwritten.

I don’t know, just babbling. STRESS!! ??

oh and because the fix was only in my theme my dashboard is still having the problem. If I knew the upstream files involved in creating that part of my homepage I would feel conformable sorting through it.

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Hi I looked and did notice there was an extra << there at the top of my code but that isn’t found in my Theme so I deleted the ‘1’ < from my header.php in my theme folder and now it works.

But that isn’t exactly a proper fix as there was only the one (<) not two (<<) as suggested. So are there any suggestions which files upstream either from wp_include or wp_admin that could be involved?

Thanks a bunch for your help so far and sorry for being fussy. ??
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you are a god tollie. I had the same prob and your work around fixed it. I have book marked this page so I can undo this once I migrate later this month to my new host.

cheers,
Roger
https://prof.rogerkondrat.com