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After performing a WordPress upgrade to 3.3.1, I can no longer access the administration interface. The website works fine, but when I click on Dashboard, I receive the following error:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function _wp_admin_html_begin() in /home/a7938356/public_html/wp-admin/admin-header.php on line 40

... help! What can I do? I don't have a lot of content, so I could reinstall WordPress, but I'd like to know what went wrong and prevent it in the future.

Website: http://www.stephenwade.me/
Current version: 3.3.1
Not sure what version I upgraded from.
Site hosting: http://www.000webhost.com/

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It most likely was a bad upgrade. You should manually download the latest WP version and overwrite all directories except wp-content. Your wp-config.php file won't be overwritten. This should fix the issue.

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After a bit more fussing with plugin and theme upgrades, waiting, then manually deleting the .maintenance file, I'm back in business. Thanks for the idea: I didn't know you could upgrade manually nor how to do it. Thanks again! – stephenwade Jan 12 at 6:32
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In my experience it is often a plugin conflict. Rename the plugins folder to something like plugins-off, then go to your admin if it works, visit the plugins page. it will uninstall all the plugins, then just rename the folder and re-activate them one by own. Otherwise Brian's answer might do the trick.

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