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1. kristindawnton
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi, first I want to warn all of you that I know very little about all of this, so please bear with me.

   Back in May I dutifully updated my blog to the then newest-version of WordPress and, lo and behold, it messed up some major things:

   1. My blog misses scheduled posts (and has continued to do so since May despite consistently updating WP versions). I am under 2.9.1 and still having issues. Also, I uploaded the patches and they didn't work either.

   2. I gave up on actually trying to write posts IN WordPress because I simply can't edit them when I try. All of the tools that existed prior are no longer there. Just a few buttons and the Visual/HTML tab - which also don't work properly. When I switch between the two, the visual shows HTML code. The HTML shows... whatever it feels like at that moment. Sometimes the text shows up, sometimes it doesn't. Like I said, I gave up on that and downloaded Windows Live Writer because it did what WordPress USED to do for me before I updated it.

   Okay, now to me, it just seems like the best thing to do would be to reinstall WordPress from scratch... but how do I possibly do this without losing everything I've done up to this point (posts, comments, edits to my theme's stylesheet, etc.)?

   I would sincerely appreciate ALL of the help I can get with this. I've tried ignoring the issues and working around them, but I've come to the point where I no longer can manually publish things.

   Please help!

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Have you tried:

   - deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).

   - switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-related problems?

   - resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

   - re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress?

3. kristindawnton
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi Esmi,

   I have tried:

   - deactivating all plugins
   - switching to the default theme

   I'd love to try your other two suggestions, but admittedly, don't understand how. The directions you sent about resetting the plugins go a little over my head. And as far as re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download, I thought I knew how to do that, but I guess I was wrong. I went to my cPanel after downloading the latest version again, but I get lost after that. I don't know how to replace one folder with another when I try to upload. (See, lol, I told you I don't know a lot about this!)

   Also, will uploading new folders cause me to lose anything? If not, I am 100% on board with doing it!

   I really do need help...

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   will uploading new folders cause me to lose anything?

   Not if you stay well clear of the wp-content folder. All of your actual post & page content is stored elsewhere in your database.

5. kristindawnton
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi Esmi,

   Thank you for your help.

   I have now officially tried all of the options you mentioned... and still haven't found a solution to my problems. Posts are still missing their schedule dates and I'm still unable to easily edit posts within WordPress.

   I don't know what else to do. Anyone have any ideas?

6. henkholland
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It could be a server memory issue. Try adding this to your wp-config.php on a new line right after db_collate:
   define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

7. kristindawnton
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Stupid question alert:

   Where do I find wp-config.php?

   I searched through every folder in cPanel and didn't find anything.

8. kristindawnton
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Ignore me - I found it an updated it with the new line... and alas... that didn't work either.

9. henkholland
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Kristin, have you ever tried it from another computer? Logging in to WordPress I mean. Just to exclude the influence of your regular workplace.

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