Title: Inability to Edit Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Inability to Edit * [roblt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roblt/) * (@roblt) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-edit/) * I am not an IT boffin. I have had a website for many years and for some reason now cannot edit any of my information on the web site. I have contacted the server/ hosting service and they tell me that it is the plugins. No idea what they are. I do know that it matters not what computer that I am on – I cannot edit my site. They told me to remove the plug in and then reinstall them – again I know nothing about plugins and I am sure that after an attempt to do something with them something would happen to my PC which could make it inoperable – thus the situation worse. What course of action do I have open to me apart from just deleting everything from the site and putting it all down to a bad experience which is that it is turning into. Whenever I bring up the site and go to edit a page or even click on a button the screen goes grey and a bar in the middle of the screen revolves as if it is ggoing to do something – but nothing happens even if left for an hour. wwww.bushveldtcarbineers.com.au Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * [LyleChamney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lylechamney/) * (@lylechamney) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-edit/#post-5420449) * NOTE: you have an extra “w” in your site address 🙂 * Your site comes up fine for me and I am also able to access the login page. * Are you able to successfully log into the admin dashboard of your site? * What, exactly, do you mean when you say you cannot edit any of the information? – are you not able to edit and save existing posts or pages? – are you not able to create new posts or pages? – etc. … please be as specific as you can * BTW, removing any items on your site (plugins, themes, etc.) or any changes for that matter will have absolutely no effect on your PC 🙂 * [dixiedays](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dixiedays/) * (@dixiedays) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-edit/#post-5420451) * i’m responding to this thread because i’m right in the middle of the same problem of having the edit page not load. I’ve tried 3 different browsers, plugged the broadband signal directly to the computer, tried shutting off addons, etc. I’d enjoy it if someone who has had this problem would communicate their solution. All other pages load gracefully .. all but the edit page * [LyleChamney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lylechamney/) * (@lylechamney) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-edit/#post-5420454) * [@dixiedays](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dixiedays/) – * While your issue may be similar, it is not the same, unless you are on the same hosting account running the same version of WP and all other items. * As per forum rules, please start your own topic for your issue, including as much info as possible, the URL as well, if able 🙂 * Thread Starter [roblt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roblt/) * (@roblt) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-edit/#post-5420465) * Thank you all for your responses. I will be as specific as I can. I can log into the dashboard and I have the various buttons on the right hand side which are named- pages, plug in etc. If I click on pages, sometimes I can get to the pages but but when I try to edit the page it allows me to do that but them it will not let me update it. On other occasions it does not even let me edit the page with the grey screen and the revolving bar coming up. It did let me delete my page which I ended up doing as I had been trying to resolve this for some weeks without coming to this forum. I am able to post in the forum etc – there are no issues there. From the dash board, I am unable to access the plug in and other buttons as the grey screen thing happens. When I raised this with the site hosts, they also told me that they could access the site without any problems but that then changed to there being a problem with the plug in – one of which they claimed t(We have checked and noticed that plugin ‘akismet’ was causing the problem. We have now deactivated this plugin by renaming /akismet to akismet1. Please try to access wp-admin panel now. It should be working fine). As mentioned. Nothing changed. * [LyleChamney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lylechamney/) * (@lylechamney) * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-edit/#post-5420540) * I am not an “expert” in this area, but you may want to check with your host ( or if your hosting control panels shows it) about your account’s resource usage. Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘Inability to Edit’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/) * 5 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [LyleChamney](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lylechamney/) * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inability-to-edit/#post-5420540) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics