How to deal with garbled code in WordPress background

Solution to the garbled characters in the WordPress background: 1. Find the “admin.header.php” file in the “wp-admin” folder of WordPress; 2. Set the “charset” attribute value to “UTF-8” "The format will return to normal.

#The operating environment of this tutorial: Windows 10 system, WordPress 6.1, Dell G3 computer.

What should I do if the WordPress backend is garbled?

WordPress backend management panel Chinese garbled troubleshooting and solution

When I accessed the backend, I suddenly found Chinese garbled characters in the backend. I checked the console with Firefox F12 and found that it was a coding error.

All content in the background can be found in the wp-admin folder of WordPress. Find the admin.header.php file here and you can see the following sentence:

You can see that the charset attribute of the page is the obtained blog_charset option setting, which is forcibly replaced with UTF-8 format.

After setting the encoding format to be forced to UTF-8, access the backend, everything is normal. At the same time, under the [Settings/Reading] panel, you can see an additional [Page and feed encoding] is set and empty.

After filling in UTF-8, this option disappears, and the modification of the admin.header.php file is restored, and the background is still normal.

[Page and feed encoding] settings are hidden by default and will only be displayed if their settings are not UTF-8. This can be seen by viewing the options.php and options-reading.php source code under wp-admin.

wp-admin/options.php

#wp-admin/options-reading.php

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