So you recently migrated your WordPress website to a new server and now the WordPress dashboard appears broken. What’s even more strange is the frontend works perfectly!
A quick Google search points to usual suspect – plugin conflicts, corrupt WordPress core files, an outdated theme, broken .htaccess file blah blah blah. Before you rush to do all that, here is a simple fix you should try first.
How to Fix Corrupt WordPress Dashboard on cPanel
- From your cPanel (or FTP), go to your File Manager and open the wp-config.php file
- Locate the line that says “
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );“ - Just below that line, add the following line:
“define ( 'CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS' , false );“ - Save the file and refresh your dashboard now.
This should fix the corrupt WordPress dashboard issue 99% of the time!.
How to Fix Corrupt WordPress Dashboard on Gridpane
If you are a Gridpane user, you are in luck. Gridpane offers a much cleaner, out-of-the-box way to manage your WordPress website security. To fix your broken WordPress dashboard via Gridpane, follow these steps:
- From your Gridpane dashboard, go to “Sites”and select the broken site. This should display more setting options in a lightbox/popup
- Navigate to the “Security” tab and select “Additional Measures”
- Toggle the “Block load-scripts concatenation” on and voila! Your WordPress Dashboard should load correctly now
