Title: Admin Page Funky
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Admin Page Funky

 *  anonymized-5761652
 * (@anonymized-5761652)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-page-funky/)
 * Suddenly my admin dashboard shows as a list and I can not do anything with it.
   I tried to update word press to 3.6, but unable to.
 * Please help – Sam

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-page-funky/#post-4009041)
 * have you tried:
 * -deactivating ALL plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem. If
   this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic
   plugin(s). If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try deactivating via FTP
   or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides. If applicible,
   also remember to deactivate any plugins in the mu-plugins folder. The easiest
   way is to rename that folder to mu-plugins-old.
    – To rule out any theme-specific
   issue, try switching to the unedited default theme (Twenty Twelve) for a moment
   using the WP dashboard. If you don’t have access to your admin area, you can 
   switch to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/
   themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using via FTP or SFTP 
   or whatever file management application your host provides. Alternately, you 
   can remove other themes except the default theme. That will force your site to
   use it. – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently
   inactive plugin can still cause problems (because the hooks remain unless plugins
   completely removed or some plugins stick around in cached files. So by renaming
   the folder, you break them and force them inactive). Read “[How to deactivate all plugins when you can’t log in to wp-admin](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)”
   if you need help. – If the above troubleshooting steps fail to resolve the issue,
   try manually re-uploading all files and folders EXCEPT the wp-config.php file
   and the /wp-content/ directory from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure 
   that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.
   Read the[ Manual Update ](http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update)
   directions first!
 *  Thread Starter anonymized-5761652
 * (@anonymized-5761652)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-page-funky/#post-4009058)
 * Thank you – I will run through your suggested steps.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-page-funky/#post-4009058)
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