Pages and Posts "quick edit" and permalink "edit" don't work

  • Resolved Tech4Eleven

    (@tech4eleven)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    I can’t do some basic wordpress stuff with my pages and posts. I’ve disabled all the plugins but it didn’t help. I have the latest wordpress version, fresh install.

    1. When I go the list of pages or posts, when i click “quick edit” under the title, it either jumps to the top of the list or doesn’t do anything. I CAN click “edit” though and it works. When I mouse over “quick edit” it shows “Go to # on this page” in the browser status bar at the bottom.

    2. When I’m on the edit page of a page or post, when I check “edit” next to the permalink, it does the same thing – doesn’t do anything.

    This all happens in chrome and safari.

    I added define(‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true); to my wp-config.php file and then i was able to see the error “ReferenceError: Can’t find variable: editPermalink onclick – post.php:312:169” in safari console when i clicked the “edit” button next to the pages or posts permalink. Before adding the debug in wordpress i was not getting ANY errors in the console. I still don’t get any errors when clicking “quick edit”.

    I can’t revert back to the default theme at this point for fear of losing all my widgets and page settings (have had terrible luck with that in the past with various themes).

    any help is appreciated.

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  • webbrewers

    (@webbrewers)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Widget references and page settings are all tucked away safely in the database so changing themes has no effect on them. I’d try a default theme with all plug ins off to rule out a script conflict.

    Thread Starter Tech4Eleven

    (@tech4eleven)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Id like to agree with you but I’ve had it happen MANY times where the theme developer uses a quirky page builder and its tied to the theme and thus toggling themes wipes out the page settings. I don’t think i have that instance here because I’m using wpbakerys page builder which is really good but id hate to do it.

    however, i just created a backup using infinitewp so i’ll try it. I’m reinstalling wordpress 3.8.1 now and if that doesn’t help, ill toggle back to the default theme and let you know.

    Thread Starter Tech4Eleven

    (@tech4eleven)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    ok reinstalling wordpress 3.8.1 didn’t help but unfortunately reverting to the default wordpress theme did. I didn’t want to have to debate this issue with the theme developer but looks like i get to.

    anyway, thanks for the help.

    webbrewers

    (@webbrewers)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    Sometimes “unconcatenating” scripts can help with weird js errors.
    Add this to wp-config.php:
    define('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false);
    after this:
    define('WPLANG', '');

    Thread Starter Tech4Eleven

    (@tech4eleven)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    no didn’t help. hopefully its an easy fix and theme developer can help out too.

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