Help! Emergency! – nothing works from the user side of the site.

  • Resolved nemo-maritime

    (@nemo-maritime)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    NOTE: The issues I am having dont work if I am loged in as admin either.
    NOTE 2: I have disabled all of my plugins, and it allowed me to post a comment, will try going through this one by one.

    I have stepped away from my blog for a shor while, and now that I got back almost nothing works from the user side. I first realized a problem I tried using wp-polls to do a sample vote, it did not register it and it just kept spinning the loading feature over and over. When I tried clicking again it gave me the error that it was still loading my last request. I tried disabling the ajax and javascript features but it still did not work. Then I decided to try maybe using the postratings feature, and that did the same thing, it just kept loading and showing the spinning gif, so I tried disabling that as well hoping that it would do something, but it did not. So I decided that I could live without that till lesterchan gets back. Then I tried leaving a comment on one of the posts, just a test article, and started getting errors with that as well. First I tried using the post preview button, but that gave an error – “There was a problem with the request”, then I tried just submitting the comment, and it gave me an error as well – “Failed to add your comment”. Another thing I have noticed is that on the dashboard it just shows “loading” for all of the options, and it just stays there, even when the rest of the page is loaded. I also use Ozh’s admin drop down, and that just shows up as an unformated list of options, like someone used the
    <“ul”> tag on it and just made it a list. Wp-grins dont work as well, even though its turned on. I know that there is a pattern with this. I dont remember doing anything new with the site, and it worked when I left it. I tried using a different theme for the comments and gravatars issue, but the problem remains. I do have .htaccess in wp-content, wp-includes, wp-admin and in the wordpress folder. I am also going to try to delete these temporarily. Please, if this sounds somewhat familiar, please save me!

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  • Thread Starter nemo-maritime

    (@nemo-maritime)

    I have been working on this for a while. So I disabled wp-post ratings, wp-polls and I have disabled ajax edit comments. I am not sure why these dont work, but I went back to my normal comment feature, and I can post comments. I tried going back to edit comments, but I still have the same issue. Strange. Anyone have any ideas?

    Thread Starter nemo-maritime

    (@nemo-maritime)

    Another thing I have found is that if I try to go to the edit widget page, it wont let me move any, and if I try to click edit or add for a widget, it just refreshes the page to do it. I know its supposed to be ajax. I tried this with Firefox 3 and IE 7

    Thread Starter nemo-maritime

    (@nemo-maritime)

    Another thing that is messed up, is that TinyMCE-Advanced is not showing up when I write….. I don’t know whats going on, any experts out there?

    Disable all plugins and see if the problems go away. If so, you can narrow it down to a plugin problem.

    Other ideas:

    Check your error_log (if you have one)
    Upgrade WordPress and all plugins
    Check that you haven’t been hacked

    Thread Starter nemo-maritime

    (@nemo-maritime)

    Thank you very much, I’m very new to this. One thing, do you have any ideas on how I can check if I have been hacked? I have a few security measures in place, but just wondering that as well. Still, its weird that its doing all of this, very strange.

    Thread Starter nemo-maritime

    (@nemo-maritime)

    Another issue I have just realized. I have another blog on the same server. It has THE EXACT SAME ISSUES AS THE OTHER ONE. So I am now assuming it is a server issue or settings issue maybe since I have upgraded the other blog I have to 2.7 so now I ask for your help even more, as this is going to drive me insane. The site works, its just that the dropdowns or the widget options to change order do not work, neither do some plugins like ajax edit comments or wp-polls, if I use OZH admin drop down it just shows me a long list of options, they are not formated or anything, its just an < ul > kind of list. WTH is going on?

    Make sure that all of your plugins are updated to the most recent versions. Switch to the default WordPress theme and see if things work then. Themes can get outdated and need updating along with plugins.

    As for hacking, spam links on your site, redirects to spam sites, sudden appearance of mysterious code or files, and so forth are signs of hacking.

    Thread Starter nemo-maritime

    (@nemo-maritime)

    Got to the bottom of it. Ny .htaccess file was blocking them off, but I could have sworn that I checked them first. Anyways, since I had this:

    For wp-includes:
    Order Allow,Deny
    Deny from all
    <Files ~ “.(css|jpe?g|png|gif|js)$”>
    <Files ~ “.(/themes/)$”>
    Allow from all
    </Files>

    For wp-content:
    Order Allow,Deny
    Deny from all
    <Files ~ “\.(css|jpe?g|png|gif|js)$”>
    Allow from all
    </Files>

    <Files ~ “.(/themes/)$”>
    Allow from all
    </Files>

    If I deleted them everything was fine, but I do need these for security. Do you see anything wrong with this or have any suggestions for more compatability?

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