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 Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
– resetting the plugins folder 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
M S
(@mgstults)
Thanks Esmi.
1) fresh install, no plugins used yet. Default widgets not available.
2) Switched to Twenty eleven and also Twenty Ten. No bueno 🙁
3) Did as instructed for Plugins folder. Nothing different. 🙁
4) I uploaded all the fresh files for both. No luck 🙁
Could there be a server setting that could be causing a global issue? I have noticed that 3 of my other sites are having the same problems that have not been touched. I am currently NOT using MU.
Appreciate your time!
Are all 3 sites on the same server? It is beginning to sound like a server issue. Anything useful in the error logs?
Thread Starter
M S
(@mgstults)
Yes, all 3 sites including an additional site I use for testing. That is exactly my point I was trying to tell my hosting provider. :(.
The logs… I’m not versed enough to be able to pinpoint something in the logs. is there anything that you could suggest that I look out for?
It’s difficult to know where to start. I normally just eyeball the logs looking at anything that suspicious – references to server configuration or server restrictions; safe mode; permission denied etc.
Has this been the situation with these sites since you installed them? Do your providers claim that they can hist WordPress sites?
Thread Starter
M S
(@mgstults)
I appreciate the small direction for the logs :). I’ll dive in and start scanning them.
No, it has just been the last few weeks. I even tried a brand new domain… install… and getting the same problem. I deleted that and reinstalled the previous version of WP to see if that did the trick. No bueno for sure.
it has just been the last few weeks.
Have you asked the hosts if they changed anything on the server around that time?
Thread Starter
M S
(@mgstults)
Back around the week of the 14th, they turned off register_globals to see if one of my plugins on the test site would work. I immediately asked them to revert back that setting.
Did they? Was the 14th when your other sites started to fail?
Thread Starter
M S
(@mgstults)
They turned it off. I just contacted them via chat. They turned it back on (which was suppose to be that way). I did not notice the other sites until the 24th because I thought it was isolated to my test site. Then when I tried the fresh install last week on a new domain… it made me go login and check the others.
That sounds like they may have borked the server configuration somehow. Can you ask them to move at least one of your live sites to a different server that hasn’t been tinkered with recently?
Thread Starter
M S
(@mgstults)
I certainly will give that a shot! I may just ask them to move me to a different one all together. That seems to be the safest bet it appears.
It may be a bit but I will diffidently request this and respond once I get some feedback. I sincerely appreciate your help!
No problem. I hope you get it sorted quickly.
