{"id":4595621,"date":"2014-02-10T10:19:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T10:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/taxonomy-ajax-not-working-in-admin\/"},"modified":"2016-08-21T16:08:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T16:08:51","slug":"taxonomy-ajax-not-working-in-admin","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/taxonomy-ajax-not-working-in-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxonomy AJAX not working in admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Dashboard\/admin, if I go to posts &gt; categories, enter the required information and click &#8220;Add new category&#8221; nothing happens.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox shows this Javascript error:<br \/>\nError: XML or text declaration not at start of entity<br \/>\nSource File: http:\/\/www.mysite.com\/wp-admin\/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category<br \/>\nLine: 2, Column: 1<\/p>\n<p>If I try deleting a category\/taxonomy, the background flashes red as expected, but it does not disappear.  At the top of the page it reports:<br \/>\nAn unidentified error has occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally I get little blips in the edit post page too e.g. clicking &#8220;Preview changes&#8221; doesn&#8217;t always work.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried deactivating all plugins but it made no difference.  I tested in the latest versions of Chrome and Firefox and have the same issue in both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-4595621","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/4595621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/4595621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4595621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}