Title: Issues with WordPress/Reinstall? Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Issues with WordPress/Reinstall? * [kristindawnton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristindawnton/) * (@kristindawnton) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-wordpressreinstall/) * Hi, first I want to warn all of you that I know very little about all of this, so please bear with me. * Back in May I dutifully updated my blog to the then newest-version of WordPress and, lo and behold, it messed up some major things: * 1. My blog misses scheduled posts (and has continued to do so since May despite consistently updating WP versions). I am under 2.9.1 and still having issues. Also, I uploaded the patches and they didn’t work either. * 2. I gave up on actually trying to write posts IN WordPress because I simply can’t edit them when I try. All of the tools that existed prior are no longer there. Just a few buttons and the Visual/HTML tab – which also don’t work properly. When I switch between the two, the visual shows HTML code. The HTML shows… whatever it feels like at that moment. Sometimes the text shows up, sometimes it doesn’t. Like I said, I gave up on that and downloaded Windows Live Writer because it did what WordPress USED to do for me before I updated it. * Okay, now to me, it just seems like the best thing to do would be to reinstall WordPress from scratch… but how do I possibly do this without losing everything I’ve done up to this point (posts, comments, edits to my theme’s stylesheet, etc.)? * I would sincerely appreciate ALL of the help I can get with this. I’ve tried ignoring the issues and working around them, but I’ve come to the point where I no longer can manually publish things. * Please help! Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-wordpressreinstall/#post-1380139) * Have you tried: * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem? If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s). * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-related problems? * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F) by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems. * – re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a **fresh** download of WordPress? * Thread Starter [kristindawnton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristindawnton/) * (@kristindawnton) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-wordpressreinstall/#post-1380185) * Hi Esmi, * I have tried: * – deactivating all plugins – switching to the default theme * I’d love to try your other two suggestions, but admittedly, don’t understand how. The directions you sent about resetting the plugins go a little over my head. And as far as re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download, I **thought **I knew how to do that, but I guess I was wrong. I went to my cPanel after downloading the latest version again, but I get lost after that. I don’t know how to replace one folder with another when I try to upload. (See, lol, I told you I don’t know a lot about this!) * Also, will uploading new folders cause me to lose anything? If not, I am 100% on board with doing it! * I really do need help… * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-wordpressreinstall/#post-1380189) * > will uploading new folders cause me to lose anything? * Not if you stay well clear of the wp-content folder. All of your actual post & page content is stored elsewhere in your database. * Thread Starter [kristindawnton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristindawnton/) * (@kristindawnton) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-wordpressreinstall/#post-1380298) * Hi Esmi, * Thank you for your help. * I have now officially tried all of the options you mentioned… and still haven’t found a solution to my problems. Posts are still missing their schedule dates and I’m still unable to easily edit posts within WordPress. * I don’t know what else to do. Anyone have any ideas? * [henkholland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/) * (@henkholland) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-wordpressreinstall/#post-1380301) * It could be a server memory issue. Try adding this to your wp-config.php on a new line right after db_collate: `define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');` * Thread Starter [kristindawnton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristindawnton/) * (@kristindawnton) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-wordpressreinstall/#post-1380315) * Stupid question alert: * Where do I find wp-config.php? * I searched through every folder in cPanel and didn’t find anything. * Thread Starter [kristindawnton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kristindawnton/) * (@kristindawnton) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-wordpressreinstall/#post-1380316) * Ignore me – I found it an updated it with the new line… and alas… that didn’t work either. * [henkholland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/) * (@henkholland) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-wordpressreinstall/#post-1380319) * Kristin, have you ever tried it from another computer? Logging in to WordPress I mean. Just to exclude the influence of your regular workplace. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Issues with WordPress/Reinstall?’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [edit posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/edit-posts/) * [html](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html/) * [Missed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/missed/) * [schedule-posts](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/schedule-posts/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [henkholland](https://wordpress.org/support/users/henkholland/) * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issues-with-wordpressreinstall/#post-1380319) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics