Latest Upgrade Creates Rendering & Header Problems

We were using 3.1.4 despite the fact that it has some problems with IE9 when administrating. I worked around this by using an earlier version of IE when administering the site; the site had no rendering issues.

We upgraded to WP 3.2 a few weeks ago when it became available and our site would no longer render in various browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc.); it was however, fine in IE9 and the former administrating problems appeared to be solved but having a good chunk of our audience unable to view the website properly was a problem. So, we reverted back to 3.1.4. This seemed to solve the issue.

The ‘fix’ supposedly came in with WP 3.2.1 so we upgraded to this – but now, our site will not render in IE (not in ANY version, going all the way back to IE6) but it does render fine in other browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera). In addition to the rendering being all screwed up, the following errors appear on our RSS feed:

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http://FedUpUSA.org The Con of the Century Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:32:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 http://FedUpUSA.org/2011/07/site-restoration-in-progress/ http://FedUpUSA.org/2011/07/site-restoration-in-progress/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:06:57 +0000 FedUpUSA http://FedUpUSA.org/?p=6

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So far we have uninstalled and reinstalled 3.2.1 and then tried the same procedure with 3.2 and then finally, reverted back to 3.1.4. For a short time, the site renders properly in all browsers, but within hours it goes back to rendering all screwed up in all versions of IE. The error just continually regenerates itelf over and over and over again.

Is this a known problem? Can we fix this some how? Also, we never allow comments on our site and have always just used the ‘no comments’ selection on the Dashboard tools, but this selection seems to be gone and ‘comments’ seems to be part of the error that is appearing, in addition to some sort of issue with rendering ‘headers.’

And yes, we have done all this:

Have you tried:

– deactivating all plugins (yes, all) to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s). Don’t forget the ones in mu-plugins. If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

– switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

– manually upgrading. When all else fails, download a fresh copy of the latest.zip file of 3.2 (top right on this page) to your computer, and use that to copy up. You may need to delete the wp-admin and wp-includes folders on your server. Read the Manual Update directions first!

Our host is Host Monster. While we are not sure whether they are running the proper versions of PHP and SQL, the fact that we have now reverted to 3.1.4 and we are still getting the errors repeatedly, sort of indicates this doesn’t have anything to do with our host.