Lost functionality of admin menus in 3.3.1

Chrome Orange, can you please elaborate on those instructions?

Open Admin in Chrome
Right-click – where?? I guessed and right-clicked in the widget area and it gave this error:

event.layerX and event.layerY are broken and deprecated in WebKit. They will be removed from the engine in the near future.

I’m not sure if that makes any sense to you.

if you go to the admin section of your website (https://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/wp-admin) and login while using the Google Chrome browser.

Find some clear space in the browser window and right click.

Now choose ‘inspect element’ from the context menu that opens (if you don’t see this then find a different spot and right click again).

The screen will split in half horizontally and in the bottom section you choose the ‘console’ tab and (hopefully) you will see an error there that you can fix).

Also, did you follow Esmi suggestions? Based on my experience this afternoon this is a jQuery error and will either be something you have added to WordPress or a corrupted file during the update.

Thanks Chrome Orange, I understood you the first time. It’s just that you didn’t state where one needs to right-click. So I took a guess and chose the problem area – the widgets and right-clicked there. I posted the results for you:

event.layerX and event.layerY are broken and deprecated in WebKit. They will be removed from the engine in the near future.

I have no idea what that means.

But while I was in the console I noticed there was mention of the Podpress plugin – it had also thrown an error. So I disabled it and re-enabled it and everything works fine again now.

Yes I did try Esmi’s suggestions first but it didn’t help.

As I told Esmi in the other thread. I have no idea which one of these things was responsible for getting the website working again. If it was the Podpress plugin then why wasn’t the problem solved when I deactivated all plugins in an earlier troubleshooting attempt?

Also, if the Podpress plugin was responsible for the fault, why has the fault not returned now that i have reactivated it?

Perhaps it was a combination of things in a certain order, like I said, i have no idea.

Actually, I spoke to soon. It’s broken again and it’s actually worse than before. Now I have lost the Header widget entirely. I’ll keep prodding (three hours so far) and if I manage to get it working I’ll post here.

I’ve turned off Podpress again but didn’t see any change. So I emptied the cache. Now my widgets work again.

A quick google of this error

event.layerX and event.layerY are broken and deprecated in WebKit

suggests you are using jquery 1.6 (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7825448/webkit-issues-with-event-layerx-and-event-layery)

I haven’t seen any where that you have re-uploaded the wp-admin folder?

I have just installed PodPress on a test site I have and haven’t seen any problems (although looking at the other thread the problems seem to occur if you update to 3.3.1 after installing PodPress)

Above I wrote:

Yes I did try Esmi’s suggestions first but it didn’t help.

Yes, that included the wp-admin & wp-include folders.

Yes, I already had Podpress installed BEFORE upgrading to WP 3.3.1

Thanks for the link but it only said where to download it from. Where do I instal it?

what error messages do you get if you run the Chrome console on the admin home page?

Do you still get problems if you use internet explorer? WordPress doesn’t use event.layerX anywhere that I can find so it’s either a theme, a plugin or I found a link that said that error can be due to a Chrome Extention

If I click in the white space on the Admin dashboard I get no error.

I don’t have Internet Explorer installed. I use mainly Safari, Firefox and Chrome.

And you still get the same problem in Firefox?

Do you have problems with the admin menus on all admin pages?

The console only gives the error you pasted above on the widget page?

Have you tried a complete clean fresh install of WP with none of your plugins, uploads or themes?

If you’re worried about losing anything, create a sub-directory and create a fresh install. Test for the problem.

Presuming it’s not there, start adding your plugins and themes one-by-one. This install of WP won’t have your posts/pages but that doesn’t matter, you’re just doing this to identify the plugin/theme responsible.

Okay,
to go back to my original problem.
I’ve gone back to the 2011 theme, deactivated all my plugins – how do I reinstall WordPress? Can I just do this within my site? I’m not a developer so simple terms please!