Title: Theme causing problems with admin?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Theme causing problems with admin?

 *  Resolved [mrmonster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmonster/)
 * (@mrmonster)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-causing-problems-with-admin/)
 * I’ve some minor trouble in the admin area for a while. Nothing deal-breaking,
   but annoying nevertheless. For example, when I’m in a the edit post screen, the
   status bar at the bottom of the screen will get stuck at “saving draft . . . ”
   The autosave will work, but I won’t get any feedback — I guess it’s an ajax problem.
 * I thought it might be some database issue, so just to level set everything, I
   deleted the db and reinstalled. It turns out that the problem is actually my 
   theme, a heavily modified one I found somewhere here, I think. When I switch 
   to Twenty-Eleven, the problem I mentioned above disappears.
 * Any ideas on how or what part of a theme can have an impact on the admin area?
 * Thanks

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-causing-problems-with-admin/#post-2177406)
 * Any and all parts of a theme can affect the admin area. Try stripping out all
   javascript or jquery from the theme.
 *  Thread Starter [mrmonster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmonster/)
 * (@mrmonster)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-causing-problems-with-admin/#post-2177419)
 * Esmi, you have no idea how many months I’ve been trying to figure this out and
   futzing with the db and trying out all sorts of things. Although it didn’t turn
   out to be a Javascript issue, your suggestion made me go through all the files,
   one by one. It turned out I had dropped something into the functions.php file
   ages ago that had to do with custom css in the editor. Once I took that out everything
   went back to normal. So thanks for motivating me to look through everything.
 * And although a database refresh (a pain, by the way, if you have a lot of settings)
   wasn’t entirely necessary, it did fix a few other weird things.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-causing-problems-with-admin/#post-2177428)
 * Glad I was able to help – albeit indirectly. 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-causing-problems-with-admin/#post-2177428)
 * Status: resolved

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