Well, if you’ve recently upgraded a WordPress site, then you may get such error message “Please open this page in the Admin panel only.” It seems like a nightmare or white screen of death. This error’s caused by faulty Google Analytics Dashboard Plugin and below is a quick resolution for it.
Quick Resolution
As this plugin throws a fatal error, which means we’re unable to get access to wp-admin. No problem, we can always use FTP method to fix WordPress website. Follow the steps below:
- Login to FTP and navigate to /www/wp-content/plugins directory.
- Further find the folder named google-analytics-dashboard.
- Select that folder and rename it to google-analytics-dashboard_broken.
- Once you’ve renamed the folder, go to your browser and open http://www.yourwebsite.com/wp-admin
- Bravo! We’re done. 😉
I’m sure plugin author will release the update soon, as being mandatory plugin for few WordPress websites. Anyway, this is a temporary fix which can resolve any fatal error caused by broken plugins on WordPress website. Now you know. 😉
Akshay Khurana 
6 responses to “Unable to Open WordPress “Please open this page in the Admin panel only” ?”
Thanks, that worked! After that I updated the plugin, the map renamed automatically and was reactivated
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Thank you so much! Your simple instructions enabled me—a poor coder on my best day—to fix the problem in less than a minute.
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You are a STAR… saved me hours of work trying to get client’s site back up and working. Thanks for sharing!
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Yeah, me too had terrified clients. 😛
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Thanks for that, was kind of done with that plugin anyway, now that there is a iOS app for Google Analytics.
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One should be very restrictive, when it comes to the use of such Plugins.
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