Lost my WordPress Admin Interface

by Crystal on December 27, 2008

There’s nothing quite so panic-ridden as thinking you’ve just broken your website. Or thinking that WordPress 2.7 has broken it.

I made one little change to a page in the theme, caused an error, and all of a sudden I couldn’t get my admin interface to work, let alone get back in to fix it! It looked very scary with text only going ten miles deep into the page. I was sure I’d broken it.

Luckily, I was able to ftp in to delete the new lines and put the file back to it’s original state, but that still didn’t bring the 2.7 admin interface back. I may only had a few new posts since the last backup, but that’s not the point…

Anyway, I hunted down a solution. No, re-installing 2.7 didn’t fix it. Obviously, fixing the error didn’t either. The one fix I did find (and it worked) was to close down my admin page, open the public blog, go to a single entry, and click the ‘edit’ link.

I think the next suburb over must have heard my sigh of relief! At the very least a couple of streets away.

[Update] I’ve been getting a lot of comments in Russian about this, so I decided I’d add the google translate feature here for anyone else that was interested.

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Thoutnog February 15, 2009 at 1:27 am

Уважаемый автор блога, а вы случайно не из Москвы?

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hietscreerie February 13, 2009 at 7:49 pm

Опутеть как интересно, во задвигаете. Класс!

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pienueUnsugs February 12, 2009 at 7:51 pm

Ты как обычно радуешь нас своими лучшими фразами спасибо, беру!

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wepennance February 8, 2009 at 4:00 pm

Спасибо вам за сайт, очень полезный ресурс, мне очень нравится

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Sounknef February 8, 2009 at 8:50 am

Очень понравилось, даже не ожидала.

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entitnentelp February 8, 2009 at 2:27 am

Спасибо. Просто спасибо, за красивые мысли вслух. В цитатник.

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payommadette February 5, 2009 at 1:34 am

Чёрт возьми! Круто!Вы Сами ответили.Беру в цитник! Смысл жизни и всё остальное. Решено.Без шуток.

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AddingeVenue February 3, 2009 at 8:26 am

Интересно и позновательно, а будет еще что-то по этой теме?

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Crystal February 4, 2009 at 5:36 pm

Thanks for the comment, but google translate didn’t quite give me enough of your question to give you an answer. Sorry about that.

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Amiddize February 3, 2009 at 1:17 am

Извините если не туда, но как с админом сайта связаться?

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Crystal February 4, 2009 at 5:42 pm

If you’re talking about me, there’s a contact page just above the header (fourth link in from the left).
If you’re talking about in general, if the site is down, you can do a whois search and pull up the admin contact, unless they’ve blocked their details.
Hope this answers your question.

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jason kenny January 16, 2009 at 2:58 pm

Have a barbeque with plenty of fosters
It works for me

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Crystal January 17, 2009 at 1:15 am

Thanks Jason. Appreciate the thought. Unfortunately, as a vegetarian with a balcony that would make a 3yo feel cramped (although I’ve still crammed a few planters out there…) I’ll have to just stick with putting my feet up with a good book (reading L.E. Modesitt at the moment) and a glass of shiraz or something.

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Crystal February 22, 2009 at 8:16 am

I hope google translate has helped me understand this: you were wondering if a trackback would appear from a russian blog that linked to me?

Normally trackback links appear, but I don’t know if wordpress can pick them up in Russian. I know Russian language comments are automatically put into spam, and I have to spend time each weekend finding them, translating them and approving the ones that aren’t spam.

I do believe in being fair, though, so if you post a comment with the link back to the page on his blog that links to me, I’ll approve it and he’ll get his trackback. I’ll watch for it next weekend. OK?

PS The below text is what Google thinks I said in Russian. I hope it doesn’t turn out as funny as the translations I get to english!
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Я надеюсь, что Google Translate помогла мне понять: вам просто интересно, если бы TrackBack появляются из российских блоге, что связано со мной?
Обычно TrackBack ссылки появляется, но я не знаю, если WordPress может забрать их в русском языке. Я знаю русский язык комментарии автоматически введен в спам, и я должен тратить время на каждый уикенд найти их, переводя их и утверждения, которые не являются спамом.
Я верю в том, справедливыми, хотя и, поэтому, если вы разместите комментарий со ссылкой на страницу, на своем блоге, что ссылки на меня, я одобрить его и он может получить его TrackBack. Я смотреть на его следующей недели. OK?
PS Ниже текста является то, что Google считает, что я сказал на русском языке. Я надеюсь, что это не получится, как забавно, как я получаю переводы на английский язык!

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