Title: wp-admin design & layout distorted
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# wp-admin design & layout distorted

 *  [wkwdominic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wkwdominic/)
 * (@wkwdominic)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-design-layout-distorted/)
 * After downloading WordPress and installing it onto my site via FTP, the wp-admin
   dashboard’s layout and design are both distorted.
 * You may like to see the image here (it looks different from what it is supposed
   to be).
 * Anyone has any clue what is missing?
 * [http://i.imm.io/1medn.jpeg](http://i.imm.io/1medn.jpeg)

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-design-layout-distorted/#post-4411549)
 * Have you tried:
    – 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). If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try deactivating
   via [FTP or SFTP ](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients)or whatever file management
   application your host provides. If applicable, also remember to deactivate any
   plugins in the mu-plugins folder. The easiest way is to rename that folder to
   mu-plugins-old. – To rule out any theme-specific issue, try switching to the 
   unedited default, core-bundled Theme (such as Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen 
   or Twenty Fourteen) for a moment using the WP dashboard. If you don’t have access
   to your admin area, you can switch to the default theme by renaming your current
   theme’s folder in wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder
   name using via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host 
   provides. Alternately, you can remove other themes except the default theme. 
   That will force your site to use it. – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems (because the hooks remain unless plugins completely removed or some 
   plugins stick around in cached files. So by renaming the folder, you break them
   and force them inactive). – If the above troubleshooting steps fail to resolve
   the issue, try manually re-uploading all files and folders EXCEPT the wp-config.
   php file and the /wp-content/ directory from a fresh download of WordPress. Make
   sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new
   ones. Read the [Manual Update ](http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update)
   directions first!
 *  [melvladimir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melvladimir/)
 * (@melvladimir)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-design-layout-distorted/#post-4411623)
 * I guessed there was 2 estimated reason:
    1) browser (less chanse) 2) global setting
   of the operating system
 * I had the same problem and found this topic and tried to solve it. I changed 
   my browser: Opera->Mozilla->Chrome and this didn’t help.
    Then I went to the “
   Control panel->System Properties->Perfomance Options” of my OS (WinXP) and switched
   on “Smooth edges of screen fonts”. And it solved the problem of distortion only
   in Opera. The most awful distortion is in the Mozilla.
 * So, the reason has nothing to do with OS or browser.
 * PS: I installed a “clean” version without plugins and/or any customization.
 *  [WPyogi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpyogi/)
 * (@wpyogi)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-design-layout-distorted/#post-4411627)
 * **[@melvladimir](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melvladimir/) **– if you’re
   looking for help, please start your own thread as per the forum guidelines:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post)

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 * [distorted](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/distorted/)
 * [layout](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/layout/)
 * [wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-admin/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-design-layout-distorted/#post-4411627)
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