Title: garbage in Admin area when editing posts
Last modified: November 8, 2020

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# garbage in Admin area when editing posts

 *  Resolved [todindiana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/todindiana/)
 * (@todindiana)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/garbage-in-admin-area-when-editing-posts/)
 * When I’m navigating around the Admin dashboard, everything works well except 
   when I select a post to edit or choose to create a new post. The screen of my
   iPad shows a white sheet with text running down the left where the GUI display
   of Dashboard items belong. The text appears to mirror Dashboard items. With a
   bit of swiping around, the post edit area appears, but often disappears while
   editing.
 * Restoring from a recent backup did not help. I had not added new plugins in the
   past few days, and this behavior only began a couple hours ago.
 * Unfortunately, there is no option here to include a screen grab that would perfectly
   illustrate the problem.
 * I’d be really grateful for any advice.
 * Thank you,
 * Tod

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 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/garbage-in-admin-area-when-editing-posts/#post-13634449)
 * Sounds like you are not into the new Gutenberg Editor aka Block editor… which
   actually is almost two years old! If you install Classic Editor [https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/)
   you will get the screen you are used to back.
 * Hope this helps.
 *  Thread Starter [todindiana](https://wordpress.org/support/users/todindiana/)
 * (@todindiana)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/garbage-in-admin-area-when-editing-posts/#post-13634472)
 * [@binarywc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * Thanks for responding.
 * First, I have narrowed down the problem to the Wordfence plugin. I’ve opened 
   a ticket in their subforum.
 * Second, yeah, I’m a bit behind the times WRT Gutenberg. I really need to bite
   the bullet and start using it. I already have Classic Editor installed.
 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/garbage-in-admin-area-when-editing-posts/#post-13634475)
 * Glad you were able to do some debugging and figure out what was causing the issue.
   I’ve not personally experienced this issue on any of the sites I manage and most
   of them are using WordFence. Glad to help any time I’m able! That’s what the 
   forums are here for. Happy blogging!

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 * Last reply from: [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/garbage-in-admin-area-when-editing-posts/#post-13634475)
 * Status: resolved

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