Title: Publish button is missing Last modified: May 9, 2022 --- # Publish button is missing * Resolved [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/) * (@hommealone) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/) * Hi, * I’ve just installed and activated the plugin and am trying to create my first ad. I’ve read the tutorial. * On the Add New/Edit Ad screen, there is no “Publish” button, and I’m unable to save the ad I’ve created. * Similarly, if I try to create it using the wizard, the “Save” button on the final screen does nothing when I click on it. * The ads that I create (but can’t publish) show up on the admin list of ads page, as drafts. I’ve tried the Quick Edit option from that page, and changed the status to “Publish”. When I then try to insert it into a widget using the shortcode, the widget is displayed empty (no content). If I try using the Advance Ads widget, where the ad name shows as an option, nothing appears, not even an empty widget. * Am I missing something obvious? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 18 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/page/2/?output_format=md) * Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/) * (@hommealone) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15630149) * To be more accurate: the entire “Publish” metabox is missing, not just the Publish button. * [schmidt25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schmidt25/) * (@schmidt25) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15635128) * Hi hommealone, * Thanks for reporting your issue. * This is not the expected behavior of Advanced Ads. * When you open the inspector of your browser, do you notice any errors in the Console tab there? * Best regards, Joachim * Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/) * (@hommealone) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15636456) * Thanks for your reply! * On the “add/edit Ad” screen I get a couple of errors: * First) (seems to be about a badly formed font declaration in a social media feed plugin) * > 11:33:01.326 downloadable font: OS/2: Bad sTypoLineGap, setting it to 0: - > 64 (font-family: “SlickRemix” style:normal weight:normal stretch:normal src > index:1) source: [https://asbpe.org/wp-content/plugins/feed-them-social/admin/css/fonts/SlickRemix.woff?p9iqv](https://asbpe.org/wp-content/plugins/feed-them-social/admin/css/fonts/SlickRemix.woff?p9iqv) > 1 admin.css:1:11 * Disabling that plugin clears the error, but doesn’t fix the missing “Publish” metabox. * Second) * > 11:33:05.142 SyntaxError: expected expression, got ‘?’ 1 build.min.js:2:300067 * That one’s from here: source: [https://widgets.wp.com/notifications/build.min.js?69ec0877ed8c70eb602c](https://widgets.wp.com/notifications/build.min.js?69ec0877ed8c70eb602c) * Possibly related to Classic Widgets plugin? No, disabling that plugin does not clear the error. Maybe Jetpack? * Third and lastly, this notice [not error]) * > Missing data from PHP (wpNotesArgs). * Location: [https://widgets.wp.com/notifications/build.min.js](https://widgets.wp.com/notifications/build.min.js)?: 2:300067 * Any suggestions? * Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/) * (@hommealone) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15636487) * Sorry, I missed another one… or maybe it is the same one, displayed differently in the console in Chrome rather than Firefox. * From: [https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/notes/admin-bar-v2.js?ver=10.9-202219](https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/mu-plugins/notes/admin-bar-v2.js?ver=10.9-202219) * > Missing data from PHP (wpNotesArgs). * BTW, deactivating Jetpack does clear this error, but does not restore the “Publish” metabox. - This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/). * Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/) * (@hommealone) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15636804) * I also tried: * Download a fresh copy of the plugin in case there was an installation glitch; Rename the plugin directory using FTP; Manually upload the fresh copy; Delete the old renamed directory; Re-enable in the plugins admin screen. * No help :- ( * [fishsaidno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fishsaidno/) * (@fishsaidno) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15638665) * A temporary workaround is to run the below in the dev console to update/publish the ad. * `jQuery('#post').submit()` * Cheers. * [schmidt25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schmidt25/) * (@schmidt25) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15638678) * Thanks for sharing this workaround. I am still struggling to replicate your issues on a test site. We are investigating what happens here. * Best regards, Joachim * Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/) * (@hommealone) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15640020) * [@fishsaidno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fishsaidno/) , [@schmidt25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schmidt25/) * I _do_ use a lot of plugins, and disabling them all to find a possible conflict is not a good option for me. Perhaps if we compare the plugins that I use with those that [@fishsaidno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fishsaidno/) uses, we might spot a few of the most promising candidates to test/disable. Perhaps we both use a plugin that’s relatively rare, or we both use one that seems more likely to interact with the “edit” screen. * Here’s my list. Hopefully [@fishsaidno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fishsaidno/) can post one here too. * ``` Advanced Custom Fields Advanced Custom Fields: Theme Code Advanced Editor Tools (previously TinyMCE Advanced) Akismet Anti-Spam Auto Upload Images Better Search Replace Classic Editor Classic Widgets Contact Form 7 CPT Bootstrap Carousel Custom Post Type Permalinks Custom Post Type UI Delete Pending Comments Disable Comments Duplicator Easy Updates Manager Feed Them Social Heartbeat Control by WP Rocket Honeypot for Contact Form 7 HTML Editor Syntax Highlighter Jetpack LH Archived Post Status List category posts Login Security Solution Post Snippets Post Type Switcher Really Simple SSL reCaptcha by BestWebSoft ReCaptcha v2 for Contact Form 7 Redirection Reveal Template Sassy Social Share Simple Custom Post Order Term Management Tools Title Remover UpdraftPlus User Switching Widget Options WordPress Importer WordPress Users & WooCommerce Customers Import Export(BASIC) WP-Optimize - Clean, Compress, Cache WP Help WPS Hide Login WPZOOM Shortcodes Zero Spam for WordPress ``` * Let’s see where we overlap! * [fishsaidno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fishsaidno/) * (@fishsaidno) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15641460) * I’m away from my machine for the weekend. * Though, looking at that list the only plugins used over here that I hadn’t already tried disabling are: - Contact Form 7 - LH Archived Post Status - WPS Hide Login * Suspicious on LH Archived Post Status, that one does add a metabox to posts. * Hopefully something there? * Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/) * (@hommealone) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15643482) * [@fishsaidno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fishsaidno/) [@schmidt25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schmidt25/) [@shawfactor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawfactor/) * [@fishsaidno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fishsaidno/) – your suspicion is correct. Disabling the LH Archived Post Status plugin corrects the issue with the Advanced Ads plugin, and the Publish metabox is again visible. You’d mentioned that you weren’t sure when this problem began for you. (I’ve just installed Advanced Ads for the first time.) Apparently LH Archived Posts Status has recently had a major revision; perhaps that’s when it broke things for you. * [@schmidt25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schmidt25/) – Perhaps you and the author of LH Archived Post Status [@shawfactor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawfactor/) can put your heads together to resolve this conflict? * I’ll post about this on the LH Archived Post Status WP forum as well, and hopefully the conflict can be resolved. * Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/) * (@hommealone) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15643537) * Here’s the post on the LH Archived Post Status forum: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-w-advanced-ads-plugin/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conflict-w-advanced-ads-plugin/) * Please feel free to add to my explanation there if it will help. * [shawfactor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shawfactor/) * (@shawfactor) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15646853) * Ivd made a change to exclude the advanced ads custom post type from eligibility for archiving in version 3.01 * This should fix the issue but I’ve not tested it properly as I don’t use advanced ads * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15646909) * Side note: [@hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/) Do not over use the @ notification anynmore, you are reaching abusive levels now. * [https://wordpress.org/support/guidelines/#the-bad-stuff](https://wordpress.org/support/guidelines/#the-bad-stuff) * Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/) * (@hommealone) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15647397) * Side note: Jan – sorry, no harm meant. I was just trying to bring together two plugin authors whose plugins have a code conflict. I guess I didn’t really understand the etiquette of @ mentions. Thanks for pointing this out, I’ll be more careful! * Thread Starter [hommealone](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hommealone/) * (@hommealone) * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/publish-button-is-missing/#post-15647431) * As noted in the thread in the LH Archived Post Status, the update to that plugin didn’t help for me. * fishsaidno: can you confirm that it is still not fixed in your setup? 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