I have logged into my WordPress back-end after a long time to write some new posts. I haven’t written a blog post in a couple of weeks and because of that didn’t have to login to the dashboard. However, for some reason the dashboard and the entire back end lost its formatting, making it practically useless to do anything. The site itself was looking fine to the visitors and readers but seems to be broken for the admins and contributors. The pictures below are from the web, I’ve forgotten to take screenshots.
But Godaddy rep assisting me advised that some of the files may have been corrupted, and if we upgrade WP to the next version, I may be able to resolve my issue. As my luck would have it, Godaddy’s installers were acting up that day, and my upgrade process went into an infinite loop. They said I may have to try again after a day once their in-house issues were resolved. I was really annoyed as I wanted to write some posts before I forget about them.
If any of you are facing similar issues, you may have some luck trying my way using your mobile phone, or even a tablet. If you don’t necessarily have an upgrade path, you can still try changing the themes and disabling plugins etc. The point is, you will have access to the tools to help you debug.
Hope this helps.