An Annoying Little WordPress bug

In general, I’m a big fan of WordPress. As mentioned before, I even spend a lot of time haunting the support forums. All that aside, I have the damndest little bug that’s just driving me nuts. Not a major bug. Not a show-stopper even. In fact, it really doesn’t impact me at all. But it bugs me just knowing that it happens…

I’ve posted this to the support forums, “The Case of the overly slim Dashboard.” I’ve even added to it as I’ve explored various items and, with Vox’s help, stumbled over a bit of a work around. I’ve found a few people with the same issue, but not many so it must be something just a bit out of the norm. Here’s the pertinent bits of the initial post:

Every now and then, with no apparent rhyme nor reason, I get a very — nay, overly — slim Dashboard page.

I submit Exhibit A.

I find myself at a loss of how to explain this.

Looking at the apache logs, nothing in error logs and all http 200’s in the access logs. So apache seems hunky-dory.

Initially, I noted that it was only happening with one browser on one machine. But over time, I realized that was not really the case. It now happens with all my browsers on all of my machines (and I posted updates as I stumbled through this). Also early on, I realized that logging out of the Admin area and then back in seemed to briefly fix things. But not really. However, that was a clue and Vox helped me realize it was the URL being used to hit the dashboard that was really the issue. That got us to here:

Closing in on it, maybe.When first logging in, I get a url like
blog/wp-admin/That url works every time.

When I’m elsewhere in the admin stuff, and click on the “Dashboard” link, I go to
blog/wp-admin/admin.php?page=index.php
See Exhibit A in the first post. (no workie)

If I shorten that link to end at wp-admin it works. So logging out and back in isn’t necessary.

So… does that mean anything to anyone?

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