Drafts don’t actually save or publish (3.5)

  • computerslayer1

    (@computerslayer1)


    5 years ago

    I have an older wordpress site I’ve upgraded over the years. It was sitting at 3.5.1, and I upgraded to 3.5.2 after I noticed the issue where drafts were disappearing.

    The issue is that when create a new post, add a title, add text, it looks like it auto-saves normally, but when I leave the screen, the post disappears. No drafts are listed in “All posts”.

    If I create a new post, click “save draft”, I see the “saved” message. Then the title vanishes from the post, but the text is left behind. If I navigate elsewhere and go to “all posts”, no drafts are listed.

    If I create a new post, publish it, I get the success message for publishing a post, but it’s not actually listed in “all posts”.

    If I go directly into the posts table of the database, there are a bunch of “Auto Draft” posts, but the content field is blank.

    So, essentially, everything I wrote was never actually saved anywhere.

    Any ideas as to why this is happening? A wordpress site is kind of pointless if you can’t actually save or publish any posts…

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    WP 3.5.2 is very old, and is before the auto-update feature was added, which was 3.7.
    It also will have no compatibility with modern PHP versions. What could have happened is that your host updated the PHP version and your site is now failing because of that. You don’t see the errors if you have WP_DEBUG off, as you should with a live site.

    You can use the WP Downgrade plugin to install a specific version of WP, if you don’t want to jump all the way to latest. I suggest you update in small steps, but you might have to jump farther, in order to get a WP version that works with your PHP version.

    You can use the PHP Compatibility Checker plugin to see how your plugin and themes need to be changed for whatever PHP version you target.

    Look at https://php.net/supported-versions.php for the PHP versions that are receiving security updates.

    Thread Starter computerslayer1

    (@computerslayer1)

    My mistake–It’s 5.3.2. I reversed the numbers.

    Joy

    (@joyously)

    You still need to address PHP compatibility problems, and turn on Debug mode to see what the errors are.

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