I had upgraded a few of my blogs recently, but not actually logged in and posted anything. I went to write something on this blog yesterday and couldn’t log in. I was freaked, tried it on another blog and had the same thing. I was looking at my databases and did all kinds of thing, re-installed WP manually, nothing worked, looked for stuff in wp-config.php and there was nothing wrong.<\/p>\n
I just couldn’t log in, and it acted weird and with some stuff I did this blog disappeared, but a re-upload of wp-admin and wp-includes brought it back, but I still only got white pages with no action going on when trying to login or load anything admin manually, except for “upgrade.php” – that worked.<\/p>\n
On a different blog this morning, I had the same stuff happening at first, but I knew not to do some things I had done, and was presented with errors and warnings and I found my fix by searching one of those header warnings.<\/p>\n
It’s simple.<\/p>\n
In FTP or however you manage your files, open wp-config.php with notepad (or whatever plain text program you use) … Save As, it will have UTF-8 as the encoding, change that to ANSI and save, upload it to replace the prior copy of wp-config.php<\/p>\n
Voila! You can now log in. It really was “magic”.<\/p>\n
Trying to login you are presented with an error and then blank pages that are empty and do nothing. Very frustrating.<\/p>\n
It’s so simple. If you have this happen, only try that fix first, just save wp-config.php as ANSI and upload to replace what is on your server. You just may save your hair and mind. Simple as that.<\/p>\n
Others have said that it will not really fix the problem, there’s something wrong with a plugin. I don’t know about that, but what happened on my wordpress installs: all errors vanished as soon as I applied that simple fix.<\/p>\n
The only thing same about them was WP upgrade in the last few weeks. None of them share all the same plugins or themes. Other blogs I haven’t upgraded past 3.5 yet, and are all fine, FWIW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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