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1. hexbase
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I updated my wordpress to 2.3.2 and now, when i try to post, the post content disppears. The title is readable, but the content just disappears.
   I dont know what i made wrong. I have some plugins installed.

   PHP version: 5.2.4

2. hexbase
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Nobody will reply?

3. kgrinder
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I having this same issue and haven't gotten a reply either. I will watch your blog roll to see if it is answered. Watch my post - Post will not Post Anywhere to see if anyone answers. This is an annoying issue.

   Good luck.

4. reptilegrrl
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I have this same problem but no one is answering :( Did you ever find a solution?

5. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Not sure I have answers, but some questions please:
   1. Can you see the post content on your blog?
   2. If you look in the database table, wp_posts, what do you see in the post_content field?

6. reptilegrrl
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Michael, the details of my issue are here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/149883?replies=1#post-669778

7. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Interestingly, on the wp-testers email list there is a thread similiar. Might want to read through the thread at:
   http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/wp-testers/2008-January/005823.html

   If I read it right, the database user (DB_USER in your wp-config.php file) didn't have the INSERT rights to the database and once that user was deleted and recreated with the proper database privileges the post process worked correctly.

8. reptilegrrl
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Can you explain to me how I should do that in order to try it?

9. reptilegrrl
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Ok, I think I did what the link said to do - I gave ALL possible permissions to the user who controls that db. And it didn't fix the problem :( But maybe I did it wrong.. so I would appreciate some guidance. Thank you!

10. reptilegrrl
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    I went ahead and deleted that db user, then recreated it with all privs... still not working.

11. kgrinder
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    I'm having the same issue and have tried creating a new user in the DB as well. No luck.

    the thread with my details is posted at http://wordpress.org/support/topic/149778?replies=2

    reptilegrrl good luck.

    Someone please help us.

    Thanks

12. MichaelH
    Volunteer
    Posted 4 years ago #

    1. Can you see the post content on your blog?
    2. If you look in the database table, wp_posts, what do you see in the post_content field?

13. kgrinder
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    No I can't see it on the blog. Not the post I'm trying to make anyway. I have old posts still visible.

    This is what I see in the wp_content:
    wp_post > wp_content is set to 'longtext' and null=NO

    This is my database config.

    WP 2.3.2 (I upgraded from 1.2.1)
    MySQL 4.1.2
    PHP 4.3.4
    Unix

14. kgrinder
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    I just noticed that I can't add a new user from within WP either. I get "Something Strange Happened. Try refreshing the screen"

    Then I get an email to my account saying a new user has been added, but the name and password are blank.

    I get an ID 0 for the new user. I've been deleting that "blank" user. I put this in this post just in case it sends a clue as to what is happening with the original issue.

15. MichaelH
    Volunteer
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Actually, I was looking to see if the post_content field contained the contents of the post you made.

16. reptilegrrl
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Michael: the post content doesn't show up on my blog. It's not there when I open the post in edit, either.

    When I look in the db, the post_content field is empty.

17. kgrinder
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    No my post are not showing up in the content field. Only the posts that were there on my blog before the upgrade.

18. Dsmythe
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Has anyone figured this out?

    Does the Database user need to be addressed? Or the user within wordpress (the administrator, editor, etc). I am leery of doing anything with the db user.

    I don't see using Phpadmin how I can change the user rights for the dbuser (version 2.6.0).

19. Dsmythe
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Success!!

    In regards to MichaelH's question:

    2. If you look in the database table, wp_posts, what do you see in the post_content field?

    wp_posts are empty, post_titles are not empty.

    But in checking that, I just decided that this was probably going to take some time to get addressed seeing as no one has responded in a week. I just dumped a post directly into the database to see what would happen.

    That seems to have fixed it. I also turned off: "Use the visual editor when writing" in the user profile but this was after I was able to start posting again.

    Very strange.

20. guomo
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    I am having the same problem. It apparently has nothing to do with the database. I see new rows in the wp_posts table, however the post_content field is always empty. Moreover, if I manually update that column with some text using plain SQL, it will appear in the post and the editor screen. Attempting to append more text will not work, but the text I forced via a SQL update.
    As best as I can tell the problem is with the TinyMCE editor. I sniffed the traffic being sent when I click 'save' or 'publish' or 'save and continue' and saw that the form field value 'content' is being sent to the server totally empty. So, this happens in both Safari and FireFox browsers on a mac.
    Does anyone know how to fix this? I was using wordpress 2.3.1 and just updated to 2.3.2 (same problem in both), mySQL 5.0.45, php 5.2.5.

    Thanks.

21. guomo
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Okay, so I think I resolved it. After disabling the WYSIWYG options in my profile, posts suddenly began working properly.

    I did did the thing where I disabled all plugins and re-enabled WYSIWYG and it worked okay. Evidently it was a conflict with the Currently Reading plugin.

    Hope this helps others not waste an hour trying to searcha nd debug things :-)

22. elevenmag
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    guomo I CANNOT thank you enough. After trying everything under the sun the fix this problem, (bar taking to my beloved mac with a hammer) you have sorted my problem in two easy steps.

    muchos gracias
    danke
    thanks mate

23. zammi
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    I have also encountered this problem (though only parts of my content disappears not the whole thing), and have reproduced the problem on two different servers, neither having the above mentioned plug-in; so I don't think it is a plug-in compatibility issue. Seems this is some type of bug between the program and the TinyMCE editor.

    I created a new page and posted a mid-sized (validated) html table into the editor. It views perfect, and i can publish it, and it looks fine. However, when i go back to edit it, half of the content disappears and the editor seems to have lost the data in transit between itself and the database. The same thing happens only more quickly if you hit Save rather than Publish. After the save and going back into the editor the data is lost.

    I'm going to try the above mentioned fix: disabling the WYSIWYG options in my user profile as the only plug-ins i have active are Search-Everything and Search Hilight.

24. Dsmythe
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    I am with zammi that this is some sort of issue with TinyMCE. I upgraded another of the WP installs I admin and had the same issue.

    The only thing that fixes it is to turn off the WYSIWYG options ("Use the visual editor when writing" in the user profile). I removed all my plugins and the only way to post content was to turn off WYSIWYG.

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