Issues with WordPress/Reinstall?

  • Hi, first I want to warn all of you that I know very little about all of this, so please bear with me.

    Back in May I dutifully updated my blog to the then newest-version of WordPress and, lo and behold, it messed up some major things:

    1. My blog misses scheduled posts (and has continued to do so since May despite consistently updating WP versions). I am under 2.9.1 and still having issues. Also, I uploaded the patches and they didn’t work either.

    2. I gave up on actually trying to write posts IN WordPress because I simply can’t edit them when I try. All of the tools that existed prior are no longer there. Just a few buttons and the Visual/HTML tab – which also don’t work properly. When I switch between the two, the visual shows HTML code. The HTML shows… whatever it feels like at that moment. Sometimes the text shows up, sometimes it doesn’t. Like I said, I gave up on that and downloaded Windows Live Writer because it did what WordPress USED to do for me before I updated it.

    Okay, now to me, it just seems like the best thing to do would be to reinstall WordPress from scratch… but how do I possibly do this without losing everything I’ve done up to this point (posts, comments, edits to my theme’s stylesheet, etc.)?

    I would sincerely appreciate ALL of the help I can get with this. I’ve tried ignoring the issues and working around them, but I’ve come to the point where I no longer can manually publish things.

    Please help!

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  • Have you tried:

    – 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 default theme to rule out any theme-related problems?

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin? Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    – re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress?

    Thread Starter kristindawnton

    (@kristindawnton)

    Hi Esmi,

    I have tried:

    – deactivating all plugins
    – switching to the default theme

    I’d love to try your other two suggestions, but admittedly, don’t understand how. The directions you sent about resetting the plugins go a little over my head. And as far as re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download, I thought I knew how to do that, but I guess I was wrong. I went to my cPanel after downloading the latest version again, but I get lost after that. I don’t know how to replace one folder with another when I try to upload. (See, lol, I told you I don’t know a lot about this!)

    Also, will uploading new folders cause me to lose anything? If not, I am 100% on board with doing it!

    I really do need help…

    will uploading new folders cause me to lose anything?

    Not if you stay well clear of the wp-content folder. All of your actual post & page content is stored elsewhere in your database.

    Thread Starter kristindawnton

    (@kristindawnton)

    Hi Esmi,

    Thank you for your help.

    I have now officially tried all of the options you mentioned… and still haven’t found a solution to my problems. Posts are still missing their schedule dates and I’m still unable to easily edit posts within WordPress.

    I don’t know what else to do. Anyone have any ideas?

    It could be a server memory issue. Try adding this to your wp-config.php on a new line right after db_collate:
    define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

    Thread Starter kristindawnton

    (@kristindawnton)

    Stupid question alert:

    Where do I find wp-config.php?

    I searched through every folder in cPanel and didn’t find anything.

    Thread Starter kristindawnton

    (@kristindawnton)

    Ignore me – I found it an updated it with the new line… and alas… that didn’t work either.

    Kristin, have you ever tried it from another computer? Logging in to WordPress I mean. Just to exclude the influence of your regular workplace.

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