WordPress Dashboard css won’t load

zieak ♦ April 3, 2012 ♦ Leave Your Comment

After removing some malicious material from every .php file on my WordPress install I had a few things that still were wonky. Every time I went to the Dashboard for WordPress it seemed like the CSS was not loading and the view was all messed up. I tried a number of different things and couldn’t get it to work.

At the same time I could not get Jetpack to work. It kept telling me “Your Jetpack has a glitch. Something went wrong that’s never supposed to happen. Guess you’re just lucky.” No, I wasn’t feeling lucky. Checking my site stats is one of the ways I find out that there are problems with my site!

Well, after hours of web searches, reading, and trying things one little line of code made both problems work. Adding…

define('SCRIPT_DEBUG', true);

…to wp-config.php solved it for me! Now on to other problems…