Error establishing a database connection when trying to add new post

  • Ayman

    (@aymanalzarrad)


    12 years, 1 month ago

    I’m getting sometimes WordPress error screen:
    ERROR ESTABLISHING A DATABASE CONNECTION

    It’s happening when I’m trying to add new post but than when I refresh the page everything works normally than.

    Until I try to add new post or it works directly or I get the error page and that’s also happening when I’m pressing on the “Add new post” button that is in the “Posts” page.

    I already tried to optimize and fix the database using /wp-admin/maint/repair.php , the results of the repair are all OK

    I’m not having this problem when browsing the website on the fronted.
    Please note that I started noticing this problem after updating from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2.

    Any Idea.

    Thanks

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  • Have you asked your hosts about this? It sounds like your server might be overloaded.

    Thread Starter Ayman

    (@aymanalzarrad)

    I though about it but I didn’t really ask because I was quite convinced that is a website problem as it started to show up after updating WordPress.

    Anyway I will check it out and I will let you know.

    Are you excluding that it maybe a plugin or update problem?

    Due to the intermittent nature of the problem, it sounds more like a server issue but you could try:

    – 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.

    Just ensure that follow your caching plugin’s documentation when you deactivate it.

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