Brandon's Blog

Well a few months back I set our to get WordPress running on my free GoDaddy hosting account. The install seemed fine, but iframes inserted by GoDaddy badly butchered my dashboard. It looked like this:

Broken Dashboard

I spent about 5 hours trying to fix the darn thing.  After a lot of searching, I found a comment by stefano.torricelli on one of the WordPress forums.  I can’t believe that this information isn’t more readily available…

FIX DASHBOARD

All you need to do to get your dashboard working is:

Open the file /wp-includes/script-loader.php and apply the changes. Find the following:

echo “<link rel=’stylesheet’ href=’” . esc_attr($href) . “‘ type=’text/css’ media=’all’>n”;

and replace with:

// ***************************************************************
// godaddy ads fix
$st_data = file_get_contents( $href );
$st_data = substr( $st_data, 0, strpos( $st_data, ‘</iframe></noscript>’ ) );
echo “<style type=’text/css’ media=’all’>n”;
echo $st_data . “n”;
echo “#conash3D0 { display:none; }n”;
echo “</style><!– /wp-includes/script-load.php –>n”;
// ***************************************************************

ALSO

Find:

echo "<script type='text/javascript' src='" . esc_attr($src) . "'></script>n";

And replace with:


// ***************************************************************
// godaddy ads fix
$st_data = file_get_contents( $src );
$st_data = substr( $st_data, 0, strpos( $st_data, '</iframe></noscript>' ) );
echo "<script type='text/javascript'>n";
echo $st_data;
echo "</script><!-- /wp-includes/script-load.php -->n";
// ***************************************************************

That will repair your Dashboard.

REMOVE ADS

If you want to remove the ads from any pages hosted on your free GoDaddy account add:
#conash3D0{display:none;}
to your css style sheet, which in the case of WordPress will be in:
/wp-admin/css/login.css.