Title: Empty Edit Post Screen Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Empty Edit Post Screen * [P. Chandra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pchere/) * (@pchere) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/) * When I open the edit posts screen, the post content shows no text. Both the visual and text options show no text. The post title, slug, comments are all there. When I view post, all content displays in the browser. * Cannot edit post content, as it is all blank. Happens in few posts only. Happens after upgrade to WP3.6 only. Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025470) * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-36-master-list](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-36-master-list) * [movieknight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/movieknight/) * (@movieknight) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025513) * I’m having the same problem… I’ve tried everything… * Finally just changed my theme and it ended up working.. does that mean my custom theme (Bangkok Express) is not compatible with the new update? * Everything on my site looks fine.. but I’m just displaying the same problems as P. Chandra. * Will I have to re-design my site with a new Custom theme that is compatible? Or should I try the fresh manual install? * [site123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/site123/) * (@site123) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025531) * change the theme for now. * and then try switching back to your original theme again within an hour. should start working just fine. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025560) * **[@movieknight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/movieknight/)**: It is impolite to interrupt another poster’s ongoing thread with a question of your own. It causes significant problems for the forum’s volunteers and prevents us from being able to track issues by topic. Please [post your own topic](http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform). * **[@site123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/site123/)**: I’m not sure what you are referring to here. It’s not like it takes an hour for a theme to “warm up” or something. Themes either work immediately or they don’t. Full stop. * [movieknight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/movieknight/) * (@movieknight) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025562) * I figured it out either way. Thanks. * [site123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/site123/) * (@site123) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025568) * Esmi! Thanks for reply. it worked for me. Sometimes themes are not fully functional or just show web content in plain simple text for some reason. I changed the theme and everything came back to normal. * Thread Starter [P. Chandra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pchere/) * (@pchere) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025641) * This happens on the WP admin side at Post edit screen. Why should changing the theme make a difference? * [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/) * (@wpyogi) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025642) * Because themes can cause problems – changing to the default theme is standard troubleshooting to rule out theme-specific issues. * What theme are you using? * Thread Starter [P. Chandra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pchere/) * (@pchere) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025683) * I am using a custom self edited theme. Same issue when switched to Twenty12, Twenty13. * Thread Starter [P. Chandra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pchere/) * (@pchere) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025684) * In fact the entire text content of the post disappeared after I changed theme to default and back. I also do not see any revisions for same! * Occurs with draft as well as published posts. * [Mike](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_vl/) * (@mike_vl) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025685) * @ P.Chandra. I missed if you’ve also disabled all the plugins to eliminate them as the cause? * Thread Starter [P. Chandra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pchere/) * (@pchere) * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025753) * The problem is persisting for many posts now. Plugins disabled, but persists. * Here is what edit screen looks like [http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9890/79fr.png](http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/9890/79fr.png) * This post is fully visible on the public blog. Which basically means I cannot edit this post in any way. Happening since last WP3.6 upgrade. * Thread Starter [P. Chandra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pchere/) * (@pchere) * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025768) * So I found out which edit post AND edit comment screens show blank fields. * Some posts have these strange characters on the public side and these posts/comments have blank edit screens. This was not a problem before WP3.6 * [http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6939/59f8.png](http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/6939/59f8.png) * Its a bug. Please fix as these posts and comments cannot be edited. * Thread Starter [P. Chandra](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pchere/) * (@pchere) * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-edit-post-screen/#post-4025773) * Any ideas. Using TwentyThirteen theme now and still all posts with special characters( possibly caused due to improper UTF import while changing hosts) show blank edit screens. 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