some of the /wp-admin files obviously didn’t make it
upload that folder again
Seems like the forums for WP aren’t very helpful on stuff like this
so come help us out from time to time
we’re all just volunteers with our own blogs and lives
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Anonymous User 2347895
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Thanks for the help, but missing files was not the problem. It had to do with Dreamweaver auto-updating file path within the folder when I changed the name of the folder from wordpress to blog. For anyone else using Dreamweaver to install a WordPress blog, who wants to change the name of the folder to something other than wordpress, the installation instructions weren’t entirely clear (at least not to me) so here’s what I’d suggest:
1. Download the wordpress zipped folder to the folder that is named as the root folder in the site, as configured in Dreamweaver.
2. Outside Dreamweaver (e.g., in Windows Explorer), right click on the zipped folder and open it, then move the uncompressed wordpress folder to the same root folder.
3. Then, in Dreamweaver, drag the folder to the remote site. This means that Dreamweaver never prompts you to update file names.
4. Then, once it is on the remote site, change the name of the folder to whatever else you would rather it be named (if not wordpress).
At least, that ended up working smoothly for me. Of course, you’ll still need a wp-config.php file to complete the installation, as described on the page on the wordpress.org site describing how to install. So, everything looks right now – just need to start blogging, I guess!
this is why dreamweaver isnt recommended around here to use as an FTP client. Its not one, and your issue isnt the only one associated with using it as one.
But then, what do we know.
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Anonymous User 2347895
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Makes sense. You probably know more than I do. I’m used to accessing sites that I deal with thru Dreamweaver, but I see now that it’s got its drawbacks.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I could NOT get my admin panel theme working. I had posted here and was told to reinstall the admin folder, which didn’t work [I even redownloaded it and reinstalled], and I had found no other suggestions. I was starting to think I was stupid for not understanding the solution. Apparently it was bc I was using Dreamweaver. I did what you outlined. It worked! YEA!!!! Thanks again.
I think this is the same problem I am having ….but I am not using Dreamweaver. I uploaded the WordPress files directly to my root directory using Fetch. Shouldn’t that be fine? Everything works, ut there is no formatting in the admin panel. The blog looks fine – or it did before I completely reinstalled to “fix” this. 🙁 Didn’t work. Now I’m waiting for my new DB to be setup.
Any ideas for fixing the admin panel?
I had the same problem: things missing and white text in my admin panel… I found that my problem was that this test site I was working on was a GoDaddy ‘free’ hosting site that served ads, which interfering with the CSS. As soon as I put it on a hosting account that didn’t serve ads all of my problems disappeared.
