Lost my WordPress Admin Interface

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.

Tagged as: admin interface, admin panel, broken, error, wordpress 2.7