Empty Needle Error

  • Resolved johnnymorriswp

    (@johnnymorriswp)


    11 years, 6 months ago

    I have a site that is giving the flowing error message –

    Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Empty needle in /var/sites/f/[site name]/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 658

    However the error ONLY appears when I try to access dashboard > appearance, or any sub-item of that e.g. themes.

    I only discovered this when I went to that part of the dashboard to update my theme, which I have done before with no problem.

    The other items in the dashboard are all accessible and the front end of the site and all its functionality is working fine.

    Any thoughts very welcome.

    Thanks

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    try a few basic troubleshooting steps:
    – Flushing any caching plugins you might be running, as well as server and/or browser caches.
    – deactivating ALL plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s). When you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try deactivating via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides (also read http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F). Also remember to deactivate any plugins in the mu-plugins folder. The easiest way is to rename that folder to mu-plugins-old.

    Thread Starter johnnymorriswp

    (@johnnymorriswp)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Thanks Tara. I actually managed to resolve without going too much further. Details posted below for others to see if required.

    I went back to the dashboard and generated the error message by going to appearance > themes in the menu for any more information that would help and as I scrolled down the repeated error messages I realised they occupied about the first thirty lines of my screen and below was the usual theme selection view. I changed theme to default twenty fourteen and the error message went. Then I changed back to my theme no problem and did the theme update, also no problem.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    11 years, 6 months ago

    Glad you got it sorted 🙂

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