Abigailm

OK, all is well now, but in my case I need to disable the recent comments widget. That has to be done via your script, because if the comments widget is activated then the screen options drop down doesn’t work. But for me, everything else can be loaded and things work ok.

The other interesting thing for me is that when I go to the comments page on the menu, the “screen options” and “help” also is disabled there, although there doesn’t seem to be any issue with other functionality. (It looks like I can edit, delete, etc.) I’m running a plugin called “Stop Spammer Registrations Plugin” that adds some extra spam checking/reporting options to the comment menu, but disabling that doesn’t make any difference.

For what its worth, there are less than 30 comments overall on this blog — so its not as if I have an overwhelming number of comments to handle.

Thanks again for your help. I think I’m going to take a go-slow approach on updating my other wordpress installations. Maybe I’ll do a clean test install somewhere on my server so I can get a better sense of what is caused by my installations and what might have something to do with my server setup.

I’d add that I just tried disabling the quickpress widget as described in the first post — and it did NOT help. Still have the same problem – dashboard widgets not loading, and of course I can’t use the “screen options” on the main page to disable the widgets.