Automatic update to 3.5 failed

  • Resolved juvenile38

    (@juvenile38)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    I tried to automatically update to 3.5 and it failed.

    By deleting the .maintenance file and the upgrade folder I was able to restore my site.

    However I can’t seem to access the admin section and I’m seeing the following error…

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_taxonomies_for_attachments() in /home/content/34/7971934/html/main/wp-admin/menu.php on line 67

    Does anyone know what to do to fix this problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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  • I wasn’t planning to keep the old file, I just needed to be able to access the dashboard to try the update again.

    Bingo! It worked ??

    Excellent! ??

    Conclusion:
    If you get the error replace the menu.php file with the 3.4 version, then you can get into your dashboard.

    Run the update again in one browser tab, open the website in another, once the update is finished the website will load up but the update page doesn’t seem to change or say ‘finished’, open a new tab and access your /wp-admin dashboard/ it should ask you to update your database, click OK, and you’re in!

    That fix will not work for everyone by a long chalk. The best aporiach is to try:
    – switching to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder inside wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

    – re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    – running the upgrade manually via wp-admin/upgrade.php

    Fair enough, I’m no expert by a long shot but it worked for me anyway.

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