Edit page problem

  • Resolved davidmisch

    (@davidmisch)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Suddenly, out of nowhere, I can’t save my edits! I made a change, successfully, then decided to make another, but when I click “Update” it sends me to a “Posts” page and, when I return to the edit page, the edit wasn’t saved. Clicking “Preview” also sends me to the same “Posts” page. Waiting for the page to save automatically has no effect either.

    Since everything was working perfectly then not, I wonder if it’s an internal WordPress problem.

    This happened around 9:10 AM PST, 9/24/16; the same problem occurs with both the visual and text editor, and with both Chrome and Firefox.

    • This topic was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by davidmisch.
    • This topic was modified 8 years, 5 months ago by davidmisch.
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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    This may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to disable all plugins, and use one of the default (Twenty*) themes. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of your troubles.

    Thread Starter davidmisch

    (@davidmisch)

    Thanks, but before doing that: given that this problem occured directly after a successful edit, and I haven’t added any plugins or themes for weeks, is it still possible that’s the problem?

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    yes, it could still be the problem. Some edge case, perhaps. It’s always the first place to start; get WP down to just core.

    Thread Starter davidmisch

    (@davidmisch)

    When I went to the Plugins page, I discovered this message:

    The Advanced TinyMCE Config plugin requires attention: you are running TinyMCE 4.0 (WordPress 3.9 or newer) but the settings for the editor have not been updated. This can result in errors while editing, or the editor may fail completely.

    The problem with that is that it doesn’t indicated what settings need to be updated and to what. I click “Advanced TinyMCE Config/Edit” and there’s nothing that seems obviously editable.

    However, in “TinyMCE Advanced”, under “Advanced Options”, there was this:

    ERROR: Your theme does not support editor-style.css. To use this option, add editor-style.css to your theme or a child theme. Enabling this option will also load that stylesheet in the editor.

    It looks like this may be a problem with this specific plugin. I’m no coder, though; I have a tech person who does things like this. Would you say that this is a plugin problem that the tech person has to handle, rather than a WordPress issue?

    Thread Starter davidmisch

    (@davidmisch)

    I realized there’s one other way to go “just core” and that’s to clear the cache; I did and the problem went away. How strange are the ways of the computer Gods. Anyway, thanks for the fast response.

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