Have you tried:
– 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.
Ok, tried both… neither worked. Tried the second suggestion via FTP.
Note, I can edit posts and use Quick Press…
What version of WordPress are you running? According to the source of your pages, it’s 2.6!
I just updated to 2.9.1 a couple days ago and 2.9.2 tonight! Yikes.
My dashboard says it’s version 2.9.2.
Can you switch to the default theme for a short while so I can re-check the site?
From the source code when using the default theme:
<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 2.6″ />
Did you upgrade straight from 2.6 to 2.9.1?
Yeah… I was having trouble doing the automatic upgrade for a long time until earlier this week I understood it was because I had to update My SQL from 4.0… Did that and then upgraded straight through.
It should have been a 2 step upgrade: 2.6 -> 2.7 then 2.7 -> 2.9. As it is, your database doesn’t appear to have been correctly. Did you make a database backup before you upgraded?
EDIT: ” doesn’t appear to have been correctly” should have been ” doesn’t appear to have been correctly upgraded”.
Yes, I did.
Here is some backstory – Just a few hours ago, I worked on starting over with a new database because I had character encoding issues after upgrading to My SQL 5. I worked with a developer to make sure the character encoding would not be a problem (and it isn’t a problem anymore).
The problem with post-new.php started before I started over with a new My SQL 5 db though. After I updated to version 5 and upgraded to 2.9.1, that’s when the problem started.
Just thought I’d give those details, too.
I don’t think that rolling back to a WP previous version would be the best option here as there’s no telling what state the partly-upgraded database is in.
I’d suggest setting up a new database and importing your 2.6 backup. Then installing WP 2.6 in a sub-folder and pointing it at the new database. If you can get the old version up and running again, you can then try a 2 step upgrade to 2.9.2
If all goes well, you can then delete the faulty 2.9 version of WP and use the technique described in this page to allow the freshly upgraded version in the sub-folder to run the site at the main domain.
