Title: Bug in in my installation with WP 4.2.4 Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Bug in in my installation with WP 4.2.4 * [okp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okp/) * (@okp) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/) * Hey, * I automatically upgraded to wordpress 4.2.4 today. I should have disabled the automatic update, believe me. This update has cause a big issue with the theme I am using (BoldR Pro 1.6) and after the update it has totally messed the layout. I reinstalled the theme and put back the settings, it now almost back to normal.. only big issue (which is a wordpress concern) is that some of my characters are displayed with on the page as you can see… if I click edit post; I have an empty post… but the post exist as it’s displayed on the wordpress site; but impossible to see anything on the WP editing side. So I see the post, I click Edit Post… empty title, empty body. * [http://www.e-sk8.fr](http://www.e-sk8.fr) * Anyone can release a fix as now my blog is just out of service because of this automatic upgrade to 4.2.4… everything was fine in the previous version. Damn it ! * Thanks a lot Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 34 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/page/2/?output_format=md) * [freneticgeek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freneticgeek/) * (@freneticgeek) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397874) * The visual editor is broken on my install after 4.2.4 update. No formatting tools, only the “add media” button. I cannot type in the text box. I cannot edit posts in visual mode, which is what **okp** was referring to above, I believe. * The text editor seems to be fine, though. * Thread Starter [okp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okp/) * (@okp) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397875) * exactly. I assume that there is an issue in the upgrade process to 4.2.4 from 4.2.3. Existing posts are not editable and displayed in a weird character format on the blog. Editor is fine for new post but not to edit existing posts… * I have even some in some configuration listbox on WP. * this is just crazy to advise people to update immediately… automatic update should be disabled by default.. this update has just destroyed my blog. * [freneticgeek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freneticgeek/) * (@freneticgeek) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397876) * You can turn off automatic updates in your config file by using `define( 'AUTOMATIC_UPDATER_DISABLED', true );` * Thread Starter [okp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okp/) * (@okp) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397878) * yes, this is what I immediately did but unfortunately it is now to late. I noticed that I can only edit older pages which don’t contain this symbol : � * other pages cannot be edited (or they can but content and title is blank) * Thread Starter [okp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okp/) * (@okp) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397877) * waiting for the hot fix… * Moderator [Jose Castaneda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcastaneda/) * (@jcastaneda) * THEME COFFEE MONKEY * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397879) * > only big issue (which is a wordpress concern) is that some of my characters > are displayed with on the page as you can see… if I click edit post; I > have an empty post… but the post exist as it’s displayed on the wordpress site; > but impossible to see anything on the WP editing side. So I see the post, I > click Edit Post… empty title, empty body. * Is this only for published posts? What happens if you try to publish a new post? * Have you tried disabling all your plugins just in case? * Thread Starter [okp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okp/) * (@okp) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397880) * for published post with only the character : YES. I can edit published post which have no within the body. I think that there is something that went wrong in converting the content/titles within the upgrade process. * Yes, all my plugins are disabled. * you can see the articles at : [http://www.e-sk8.fr](http://www.e-sk8.fr) * if I create new post, it works fine. Only problem is all the existing data. * Thread Starter [okp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okp/) * (@okp) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397897) * as an addition, even with all plugins disabled, I tried to reinstall… still the same. * how can we move forward ? is this a development release which has been distributed!!!!? what about the non regression testing… * [freneticgeek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freneticgeek/) * (@freneticgeek) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397911) * Agreed, **okp**. This release definitely should have had more testing. * Moderator [Jose Castaneda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcastaneda/) * (@jcastaneda) * THEME COFFEE MONKEY * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397918) * For some reason it appears to display properly if I change by browser encoding to Western. * Tried digging a little bit and found a post that is somewhat close to this: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-no-longer-set-character-encoding?replies=12](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-no-longer-set-character-encoding?replies=12) * If you don’t mind posting this section of your config: * ``` /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */ define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8'); ``` * It just seems super strange that it would have changed. * Thread Starter [okp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okp/) * (@okp) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397920) * of course, in fact the 4.2.4 introduces a new charset (which is just not working fine and of course has not been tested which seems really crazy) * > /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */ > define(‘DB_CHARSET’,‘ > utf8mb4’); * Moderator [Jose Castaneda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jcastaneda/) * (@jcastaneda) * THEME COFFEE MONKEY * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397925) * > in fact the 4.2.4 introduces a new charset * This was introduced when 4.2 was released: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2#Database](https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.2#Database) * > If a site is using the utf8 charset, and their version of MySQL supports utf8mb4, > auto-upgrade them to utf8mb4. * The most recent update/maintenance was because of a shortcode related issue. Which is why I was wondering if you are able to post without the issues. * I would try asking your hosting company about what it may have been previously set to. At one point I know mine was not set to UTF8. * Thread Starter [okp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okp/) * (@okp) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397927) * what is sure is that the issue is coming from moving (and I assume auto upgrading the database) from 4.2.3 to 4.2.4. So I think there’s a major bug in the new release. My hosting company has not modified anything. * Thread Starter [okp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okp/) * (@okp) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6397992) * feedback from my hosting company is that the site has to be declared as UTF8. Nothing on their site. Is there anyone who can help on this ? this is getting crazy I since I raised the incident… nothing came out of WP support. * there’s something wrong in the database update when moving to 4.2.4 * it was working fine on 4.2.3 * Thread Starter [okp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okp/) * (@okp) * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/#post-6398011) * just got a new feedback from my hosting support. They have look in the database and they told me that WP is using different interclass characters : * utf8_roman_ci * utf8_bin * utf8_unicode_ci * utf8_general_ci * Latin1_swedish_ci * utf8mb4_general_ci * instead of just one : utf8_unicode_ci … for all the tables. * Migration from 4.2.3 to 4.2.4 has just messed it up. Please WP provide a fix as soon as possible. Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 34 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/page/2/?output_format=md) [3](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/page/3/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Bug in in my installation with WP 4.2.4’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 34 replies * 11 participants * Last reply from: [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * Last activity: [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-in-wp-424/page/3/#post-6398131) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics