What did you do yesterday? 🙂
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mished
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I thought I made a follow up post here saying that the problem ran across all my WP sites, both single sites and multisites. So it was not an isolated issue.
But I don’t think it was a WP problem either because my sites are NOT fresh installs, they have been running for a few years. My suspicion was that it was a server-related problem (the only “major” thing I can think of doing before discovering the issue was that I fiddled with the PHP configuration, memory size and max post size, before that to upload a huge file). But we (with the server management people) troubleshot it for a while and could not come up with a solution.
BTW I was logged in (to an account when I discovered something truly strange: I published a few posts/pages (and also saved a few ones as draft) and when I went back to look at them, I could not find them ANYWHERE (not in post/page list, trash, on the frontend). They just vanished.
As a final “solution”, I requested a restore of my server from t-3 (3 days before). Now THAT resulted in another set of problems which I ended up spending all of yesterday on (what I did yesterday, you say?). Bottom line, the t-3 restore hasn’t happened yet (sometime today, I think), so I am still unable to access the backedn of my sites. But at least the sites are working fine on the frontend.
Yikes. That was a loaded question, and I’m sorry.
Tweaking PHP can cause problems, though memory and max sizes, much less so.
But to take it back to basics, there are a couple ways to start diagnosing this one. First you can turn off all the plugins, the other is to make a second install and see if you get the same problem.
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mished
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Yes, tried them all possible ways to fix it. But no dice.
We tried a /home restore (from t-3)for all the hosted sites and that worked. So things are back to normal again.
That’s … wild. I wonder what on earth got changed and where 🙁 Any chance of a server compare to t-3 vs t-ohcrap?
