Title: Dashboard empty
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Dashboard empty

 *  [rinojasper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinojasper/)
 * (@rinojasper)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-empty/)
 * I have not been to my dashboard lately, but when I do now it seems to be completely
   empty. None of the links on the left column are working…
    see: [http://stylingbar.com/images/screenshot.png](http://stylingbar.com/images/screenshot.png)
 * However, the site is working…
    [http://www.stylingbar.com/sit-back-and-relax/](http://www.stylingbar.com/sit-back-and-relax/)
 * Can’t see which WP version I am using.
 * Does someone have any suggestions how to resolve this?

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 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-empty/#post-5419934)
 * Looks like you are running WordPress 3.3.2.
 * [http://www.stylingbar.com/wordpress/readme.html](http://www.stylingbar.com/wordpress/readme.html)
 * Which is pretty dated, the current version is 4.0.
 * When I visit your site via [http://www.stylingbar.com/wordpress/](http://www.stylingbar.com/wordpress/)
   I get a content encoding error which is odd.
 * Do you have a complete file and database backup?
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups](http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups)
   
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database)
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup](http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup)
 * If you can get those backups made then you may want to rename `wp-content/plugins`
   to `wp-content/plugins-old` (do not delete anything). If it’s a plugin issue 
   then that may sort it out and let you into the dashboard.
 *  Thread Starter [rinojasper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rinojasper/)
 * (@rinojasper)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-empty/#post-5419940)
 * Thank you for the fast reply!
 * I do have a complete file and database backup.
    It has been backed up on a daily
   basis, not sure which backup (date) I should use…
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-empty/#post-5419947)
 * Try renaming the plugins folder first then revisit your WordPress dashboard. 
   If that works then it’s likely something in your plugins directory that’s causing
   the issue.
 * If it doesn’t then reply back here too and there may be more things to try.

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 * [dashboard](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dashboard/)
 * [empty](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/empty/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-empty/#post-5419947)
 * Status: not resolved

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