Troubleshooting WordPress 3.2 – Master List

NEW ADMIN ISSUES

Why is WordPress telling me my broswer is outdated/insecure?

Because it is.

If you use a non-supported (or very old) browser like IE 6 or 7, or FireFox 3 or 4, WordPress will tell you, in your admin section, that this is out of date and you should upgrade. Yes, this is a nag screen. No, it’s not going away. Just upgrade if you can, or click dismiss if you cannot.

If you’re stuck on Windows 98, good news! Opera supported Windows 98 all the way up to 10.63 (released less than a year ago) and that can still be downloaded from http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=windows&list=all

Where did the ‘create new post’ button go?

There are “Add New” links everywhere now, next to the screen title, but more importantly, WordPress’s direction is to utilize the Admin Bar for these extra links.

Where did my Network Admin Link Go!?

It’s a dropdown now. Click on ‘Howdy, YOURNAME’ and it’ll show up.

My site is set to private, but I don’t see that in the header anymore.

That’s been removed from the header bar when it was resized. Right now it’s only viewable from your site’s dashboard, in the ‘Right Now’ section.

I don’t like how the new admin section looks

The dashboard’s appearance has been redesigned with future versions of WordPress in mind. It can be customized via plugins or CSS.

See http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Admin_Themes

The Fullscreen button in the Visual editor is now missing!

To fix the problem:

1. Deactivate (and preferably remove) the old “WordPress Automatic Upgrade” plugin.
2. Go to the Dashboard->Updates option in the menu.
3. On this new page, select to Re-install WordPress 3.2.1. It’ll spin a minute and redownload WordPress and install it over itself properly, fixing any missing or broken files.
4. Clear your browser cache. Your browser will have a copy of the bad Javascript files in memory, and until you clear them out, it won’t try to load them from the site again.
5. Reload the editor page. The full screen button is between the spell check button and the “kitchen sink” button.

PLUGIN ISSUES

BuddyPress
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/

BuddyPress 1.2.8 has a couple of small issues with WordPress 3.2, mainly with javascript in the BP-Default theme. New version released on July 5th resolves this.

Facebook Comments for WordPress
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/facebook-comments-for-wordpress/

Causes “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” on activation. Also seems to cause issues if left on when upgrading.

WP-Insert
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-insert/

Causes all the side bars in the admin dashboard to vanish. New version released on July 5th resolves this.

Tweet This
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tweet-this/

Causes a fatal error due to a dependency on the class-json.php file. See Missing class-json.php above.

To fix the plugin, edit the tweet-this.php file. On line 137, you’ll find this code:

/**
 * JSON functions.
 * @package tweet-this
 * @since 1.7
 */
if(!class_exists('Services_JSON')) {
	if(version_compare($GLOBALS['wp_version'], '2.9', '<'))
		require_once(TT_JSON);
	else require_once(TT_WP_JSON);}
if(!function_exists('json_encode')) {
	function json_encode($data) {
		$json = new Services_JSON();
		return($json->encode($data));}}
if(!function_exists('json_decode')) {
	function json_decode($data) {
		$json = new Services_JSON(SERVICES_JSON_LOOSE_TYPE);
		return($json->decode($data));}}

Simply remove that section of code entirely and save. Then all is well. That code is no longer necessary with PHP 5, which has the json functions built in.

Tweet Blender

Throws JSON errors. The plug-in developer has released a 3.2-compatible version (3.3.10) which fixes the issue: http://bit.ly/pvNPuA

Headspace2 SEO
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/headspace2/

Reported to cause menu toggling issues in the Dashboard.

Block-Spam-By-Math-Reloaded
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/block-spam-by-math-reloaded/

Reported to interfere with the site administrator’s ability to reply to comments.

List Rank Dashboard Widget
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/list-rank-dashboard-widget/

Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_setting() in /home/content/k/i/w/kiwivic/html/wp-content/plugins/list-rank-dashboard-widget/wp-list-rank-class.php on line 156.

JJ NextGen JQuery Slider
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-jquery-slider/

Slider no longer works: images only change on screen refresh, no nav displayed.

FeedWordPress
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/

Causes Fatal error: Call to undefined method WP_SimplePie_File::wp_simplepie_file() in /*/wp-content/plugins/feedwordpress/feedwordpress.php on line 1841

Fix from ricardofpraimundo:

Search line 1841
WP_SimplePie_File::WP_SimplePie_File($url, $timeout, $redirects, $headers, $useragent, $force_fsockopen);

replace with
parent::__construct($url, $timeout, $redirects, $headers, $useragent, $force_fsockopen);

Theme My Login
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/

Locks users out of their sites.

Grooveshark Plugin for WordPress
Makes it so you can’t upload images.

Digi Traffic Multiplier
Yet another “left hand menu is missing” problem. The latest version of the plugin should resolve this.

jQuery Colorbox
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/jquery-colorbox/

You need to upgrade to the 4.1 version

jQuery.easein
Seems to conflict with the new jQuery in WP. No fix at this time.

Disqus Comment System
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system/

Breaks the jquery interfaces so you can’t add images to posts, drag widgets, etc.

If the TinyMCE fullscreen button is missing, check to see if the site
is still using the pre-2.7 WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin.
Upgrading with that causes an incomplete (but oddly mostly working)
upgrade.

To fix the problem:

1. Deactivate (and preferably remove) that plugin.
2. Go to the Dashboard->Updates option in the menu.
3. On this new page, select to Re-install WordPress 3.2.1. It’ll spin
a minute and redownload WordPress and install it over itself properly,
fixing any missing or broken files.
4. Clear your browser cache. Your browser will have a copy of the bad
Javascript files in memory, and until you clear them out, it won’t try
to load them from the site again.
5. Done. The full screen button is between the spell check button and
the “kitchen sink” button.