Scriptrunner (Doug Sparling)

Oddly, every single person I’ve helped with not receiving email after upgrading to WordPress 3.6.1 has found that their email is going into their spam folder. You might double check if your email from your WordPress install is ending up in your spam folder.

I generally use the Check Email when testing if email is working or not. It will also tell you what MTA your server is using, and yes, the 3.6/class-phpmailer.php issue has to do with Qmail and a bug in the version of class-phpmailer.php being used with WordPress 3.6/3.6.1.

For what could be causing the delay, I have no idea, but it does sound like there is something different about the servers.

This is untested, and I had to dig through core and the hooks, but I think I found a way you can get around this. The default http anc curl timeout is 5 seconds, but if you use a couple WordPress filter hooks, you can lengthen that (I’m changing it to 10 seconds, but use what ever works for you). Try this in your theme’s functions.php file:

function my_http_request_args ( $r ) {
    // Set http request timeout to 10 seconds
    $r['timeout'] = 10;
    return $r;
}
add_filter( 'http_request_args', 'my_http_request_args', 100, 1 );

function my_http_api_curl ( $handle ) {
    // Set CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT to 10 seconds
    curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10 );
    // Set CURLOPT_TIMEOUT to 10 seconds
    curl_setopt( $handle, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10 );
}
add_action( 'http_api_curl', 'my_http_api_curl', 100, 1 );

Have you tried doing it in the admin by going to

Settings->General

and clearing out Site Title and Tagline (if applicable)?

The message should get is this:

There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file. I need this before we can get started.

WordPress checks for the existence of wp-config.php before it makes any database queries. You’d only get a database connection error message if WordPress can’t connect to the database specified in wp-config.php.

Those are called Hamburger Menus or Hamburger Style Menus, which makes it a bit difficult to search for. I think Genesis themes may have a mobile version. I really don’t know of any plugin that does this, which doesn’t mean there isn’t. You might also search for widgets and themes.

You can create a custom menu (Appearance->Menus) and add it to a sidebar widget. If you want the link to open in a new tab/window, then to go top right of Menus admin and click on “Screen Options” and then check “Link Target” and then close the “Screen Options” curtain Then you’ll have a check box so you can set a link to open in a new tab/window. Once you’ve saved your menu, you can add it to a widget area. (Appearance->Widgets)

For another options (I’ve not used it), but the old “Blog Roll” functionality was pulled out of WordPress as of 3.5, but you can get it back with the Link Manager plugin.

Really, I think the first way is the “WordPress way.”

Maybe it’s your version of MySQL. I can run WordPress 3.6.1 on PHP 5.5.3 with no problem (other than a warning that mysql extension is deprecated). For the record, I’m running MySQL 5.6.12. And this is on my development laptop, not a server. (I actually normally use PHP 5.3, but I can load 5.4 or 5.5 for testing)