Title: Dashboard in plain text / PHP errors
Last modified: September 1, 2016
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# Dashboard in plain text / PHP errors
* Resolved [Radu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/broseph/)
* (@broseph)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/)
* Hello!
* I usually respond here and help out, but today I need your help. In all my years
of WordPress, I haven’t encountered this problem, and I can’t seem to fix it
properly.
* So, today I logged in on a website I’m working on, and the Dashboard went crazy.
It could be related to the 4.5.3 update, since I didn’t work on it after the
update; otherwise, I don’t know what happened. It broke itself or something.
The site (front-end) works fine.
* Here’s how it looks and the errors – [http://i.imgur.com/3sW8BCX.png](http://i.imgur.com/3sW8BCX.png)
* **What did I do:**
- Disabled all plugins – didn’t solve the issue;
- Switched to another theme – didn’t solve the issue;
- Downloaded WordPress and compared the files from the error list with the ones
from the WordPress download – the lines are the same;
- Replaced those files with the ones from the new WordPress download – didn’t
solve the issue;
- Reinstalled WordPress from the Dashboard – didn’t solve the issue;
- Checked the error log from cPanel – no errors;
- Finally, I added this in wp-config.php: `define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true);` –
this solves the issue (that’s why I could reinstall WordPress from my Dashboard).
* So, the last solution worked. All the errors disappeared and everything works
fine. If I remove it, the “party” starts again, of course.
* Does anyone have some new ideas on fixing this, or what could cause it? I mean,
I could just leave `define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true);`, but I’d like to properly
fix those issues; it bugs me that it doesn’t work as it’s supposed to.
* I can’t really provide you the URL to the website, since it’s still under development
and has a Coming Soon page, and the owner already posted it on several places,
so I don’t want the visitors to see the “mess” inside it. But the front-end works
anyway, so there’s nothing to check out, I believe.
* Any ideas would be appreciated!
* Thank you!
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* Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
* (@sterndata)
* Volunteer Forum Moderator
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/#post-7537083)
* enable wp_debug and wp_debug_log, per the codex.
* Also, check the console from your browser’s inspector. It looks like the admin
CSS is not getting loaded — you should see that, but what else?
* Thread Starter [Radu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/broseph/)
* (@broseph)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/#post-7537097)
* Hello and thank you for your reply!
* I enabled those and here’s what I got from the log (they are translated, because
I have WordPress in another language on that website):
* ```
01-Jul-2016 20:58:25 UTC] PHP Notice: The constructor method called for in tee_class_contact_widget WP_Widget is deprecated from version 4.3.0! Instead use
__ construct () . /home/globogol/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php online in 3718
```
* ```
[01-Jul-2016 20:58:25 UTC] PHP Notice: The constructor method called for in tee_class_event_widget WP_Widget is deprecated from version 4.3.0! Instead use
__ construct () . /home/globogol/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php online in 3718
```
* This is the line 3718: `$class, $parent_class, $version, '__construct()' ) );`
* And I checked Chrome Console. Isn’t the one in the image I provided the proper
one?
* Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
* (@sterndata)
* Volunteer Forum Moderator
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/#post-7537120)
* I can’t read the text on the image you posted.
* Anyhow, those are warnings, not hard errors. There’s no 404 for any CSS files?
* Thread Starter [Radu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/broseph/)
* (@broseph)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/#post-7537127)
* The text/links on the left are just the Dashboard links: Plugins, Settings, Pages,
Media, etc. And also some custom posts type.
* Looked deeper in Mozilla for CSS errors and they’re pretty much like these:
* ```
Unknown property 'speak'. Declaration dropped. backwpup.min.css:1:568
Unknown property '-moz-osx-font-smoothing'. Declaration dropped. backwpup.min.css:1:669
Expected 'none', URL, or filter function but found 'alpha('. Error in parsing value for 'filter'. Declaration dropped. thickbox.css:4:9
Expected 'none', URL, or filter function but found 'alpha('. Error in parsing value for 'filter'. Declaration dropped. thickbox.css:113:9
Unknown property 'speak'. Declaration dropped. thickbox.css:139:6
Unknown property '-moz-osx-font-smoothing'. Declaration dropped. thickbox.css:141:24
Unknown property 'speak'. Declaration dropped. wpseo-dismissible-330.min.css:1:215
Unknown property 'speak'. Declaration dropped. icon-fonts.css:24:6
Expected ',' or '{' but found '%'. Ruleset ignored due to bad selector. load-styles.php:1:7
Found unclosed string ''m3���a����W�����\1f ���kݫ+��\8 l����3Y\12 �s˙Rp�:�B����/�T\1f \7f '. Found unclosed string ''����<��'. Found unclosed string '"[\'yg�T�p}1���\10 �\e �
ڐ\12 �Du�Io��ǷM�ҧ���� ��K�tX\11 rC�B)\1b ��ȷ��ͽ\11 ��=�S��\4 �\19 �vc��'. Found unclosed string '"f:�DgeZ�k�d3o'. Found unclosed string '"�L?b�N��z���8!�y��X�v^�;�u�й\18 \7f \e �bbj��6���r��k���C�Y'. Found unclosed string ''!�V��+��Hj�\9 �V^z{��ӆ�\14 �^�\13 �bFln�-q[�� ��g\4 ή\19 Q���xӂ�\7f 5U/����z\1f ����xolgĥ\13 ��p��\4 u���4�.�tLP\13 ����갢�@G�B|U�_�\1b �ݙӖ'. Found unclosed string '"ckk��\1b �U�߅NK���'. Found unclosed string ''N��e\13 \17 g��\12 �N�O��\16 Ooߎ[��̬�\19 )c��N�.���%cR�]>痙\1d J����\15 q��R��䴕ٰ_Q��=�7�u��\1d V���+�2\18 �%�HD��\14 \16 ����\7 \19 g\11 ���S\19 �M�r�J!c\1d \1e �D?di��G�xvd�\2 �\b �R�{{ load-styles.php:2:60
Unknown property 'speak'. Declaration dropped. plugins.php:74:15
Unknown property '-moz-osx-font-smoothing'. Declaration dropped. plugins.php:80:33
downloadable font: OS/2: bad linegap: -64 (font-family: "backwpup" style:normal weight:normal stretch:normal src index:1) source: https://globogolf.ro/wp-content/plugins/backwpup/assets/fonts/backwpup.ttf backwpup.min.css:1:11
downloadable font: OS/2: bad linegap: -64 (font-family: "envato" style:normal weight:normal stretch:normal src index:1) source: https://globogolf.ro/wp-content/plugins/envato-wordpress-toolkit-master/assets/fonts/envato.woff?20141121 plugins.php:61:20
```
* All of them have a blue triangle, except the last two, which have a red-ish background.
Sorry, but I don’t know development stuff :). In cases like this, I associate
red with trouble :D. Anyway, the last two are fonts from a couple of plugins,
but I disabled them, so…
* I checked for CSS errors using Mozilla, like this – [http://i.imgur.com/rdVZ4rS.png](http://i.imgur.com/rdVZ4rS.png).
Hope that’s correct.
* Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
* (@sterndata)
* Volunteer Forum Moderator
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/#post-7537130)
* os/2???? 🙂
* I’m wondering if just reinstalling WP 4.5.3 would help.
* Download a copy from wordpress.org, unzip, and ftp it up. Maybe it’s just a missing
or corrupt file.
* Thread Starter [Radu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/broseph/)
* (@broseph)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/#post-7537132)
* What’s with os/2? 🙂
* I already performed a reinstall from Dashboard -> Updates -> Re-install Now,
or that won’t do the trick?
* Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
* (@sterndata)
* Volunteer Forum Moderator
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/#post-7537136)
* That should have done the same thing.
* Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
* (@sterndata)
* Volunteer Forum Moderator
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/#post-7537140)
* Where are you hosting? We are suspecting it might have something to do with cache,
either on your server, in your browser, or somewhere in between.
* Also, please post a link to your site.
* Thread Starter [Radu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/broseph/)
* (@broseph)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/#post-7537154)
* It’s a local hosting, and by local I mean country based. I’m not using any caching
plugin until I’m finished with the site. I tried different browsers and deleted
all the cache.
* I’ll talk to the hosting company when I’ll wake up; tell them to clear the cache
or something. I’ll let you know.
* [https://globogolf.ro](https://globogolf.ro). This is the site, but, like I said,
I can’t disable the “Coming Soon” plugin, since the owner already advertised
the website up front, so I can’t let users browse the site when it’s half done
and “messy”. I mean, I could disable it for like 5 minutes, if we can synchronize:),
but not over night or for a long time.
* Checked the front-end for any errors, but only got one os/2 thingy for a font.
But the front-end works fine anyway, the back-end is the one with problems.
* Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
* (@sterndata)
* Volunteer Forum Moderator
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/#post-7537155)
* OK, ask them if they’re using varnish, memcache, redis, or stuff like that.
* Thread Starter [Radu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/broseph/)
* (@broseph)
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/#post-7537188)
* Hello!
* They said that they only have an LSCACHE, which can only be activated through
the LiteSpeed Cache plugin – [https://wordpress.org/plugins/litespeed-cache/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/litespeed-cache/),
and even if I have used that, it’s got nothing to do with the problem.
* They also said that there’s a problem with the concatenation of JS files from
the admin interface, which randomly appears on different sites and different
hosts.
* Therefore, they gave me this code to add in wp-config.php: `define( 'CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS',
false );`. It worked. Guess I’ll leave that there and hope for the problem never
to appear again.
* Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
* (@sterndata)
* Volunteer Forum Moderator
* [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/dashboard-in-plain-text-php-errors/#post-7537195)
* Cool! I’m glad it got worked out.
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