unable to publish new posts

  • jackfoxy

    (@jackfoxy)


    9 years, 7 months ago

    I have not published in several months, but I have upgraded to the the most recent version that my admin site says is available (3.8.1). I can log into the admin site, and my role is administrator, but I can only save new posts as drafts or “submit for review”. I cannot find the capability to publish, nor can I retrieve drafts, once saved.

    What happened? Publishing posts was never a problem before upgrading.

    In addition, taking actions on public comments like approving or marking as spam has no affect. The comments stay in waiting for resolution status.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    I have upgraded to the the most recent version that my admin site says is available (3.8.1).

    First off, the most recent version is 3.9.2. In fact 4.0 is due shortly.

    Please make sure your active theme and all active plugins are uptodate.

    Thread Starter jackfoxy

    (@jackfoxy)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks, Tara.

    I appear to be in a bad situation. Clicking “check again” on my updates page does not advance the available updates. My updates page in admin reads:

    You have the latest version of WordPress. Future security updates will be applied automatically.

    Plugins

    Your plugins are all up to date.

    Themes

    Your themes are all up to date.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Try a few basic troubleshooting steps:
    – Clear your browser’s cookies and all cache.
    – Try deactivating ALL plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s).
    – If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the unedited default, core-bundled Theme (such as Twenty Fourteen) for a moment using the WP dashboard to rule out any theme-specific issue.
    – If above steps do not resolve the issue, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems (because the hooks remain unless plugins completely removed or some plugins stick around in cached files. So by renaming the folder, you break them and force them inactive).

    Thread Starter jackfoxy

    (@jackfoxy)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Thanks, Tara.

    It turns out my WordPress site had reached the maximum of a very small disk space quota allotted to MySQL by my service provider. After they increased my disk space I was able to upgrade WordPress and perform all other actions.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Glad you got it sorted 🙂

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