PLEASE HELP: Strange WordPress problems!!

1. Your host is preventing the RSS part of the dashboard from working. As this page is not essential to the working of the blog it’s your choice whether to ask the host to allow it.

2. For now, remove the links inside the ‘Update Services’ (Options > Reading I think) and see what happens.

3. Installed any plugins?

The fact that the server reboot helps then it stops also suggests some host problems.

Thank you for your suggestions.

I have been talking to my host for three weeks now, but they say they didn’t change anything and they cannot figure out what is wrong. I have not installed any new plugins lately. And the Update Services box is already empty.

Is there anyone who can explain this strange behavior of WordPress? I’ve seen many posts in this forum from people with similar problems, but no resolution at all.

I have the problem with posting as well. Pages or posts it just goes back to post.php saying the page cannot be found. I could post previously so I can’t have installed wrongly. I need a solution!!!!

Could my host have disabled pinging and RSS feeds on the shared server that my sites are on? Is there something that I can ask them to check?

Hi,

check the security measures your host has enabled. E.g. has he employed suexec, has he changed necessary file permissions, etc.?

When the host of my reseller account changed to higher security including strict suexec and file permission settings, I had to re-work nearly all of my php-script installations. File permissions had to be changed galore (e.g. 777 wouldn’t work, nor 700 or 600 on others). If it was just one single script part touched by that, things would go truly awry.

I’d also check any changes to MySQL and PHP versions. Many hosts tell you “nothing has changed” and you later discover that in fact small or security updates to software was done. Currently all major server software is very frequently updated, e.g. I saw 4 PHP updates, 2 MySQL updates and even more frequent Apache/Linux updates over the last 6-12 months. It’s highly likely that when your host says “nothing changed” he only meant the basic config, not the rest.

Thanks, lhk. It turns out that my host did indeed upgrade PHP to 4.4.1 around the day that my problems started. They’ve suggested to upgrade to 4.4.2 to see if that will solve the problems.

I’ve seen some posts here from people that said 4.4.1 broke their WordPress.

That was it. My host upgraded to PHP 4.4.2 and all my problems are resolved. :o)

I spoke to soon. All the problems are back. :o(

I had similar problems on my site Dashboard being messed up and not being able to edit my themes online a few weeks ago when installing Gallery2 for wordpress. I had to change many of my file permissions to 777. Gallery2 requires PHP version 4.1.0 or newer or 5.0.4 or newer. Do have Gallery2 on your site by any chance perhaps it’s something to do with PHP4.4.2? Maybe you need PHP5.0.4? This is a just a guess ?? But it might work.

I don’t have gallery2 installed. I don’t have any plugins at the moment, actually. I think it must have something to do with my host changing the version of PHP about a month ago, as that is when all the problems started.

My problems are now finally resolved. My host moved my account to a different server.

The problems all started when PHP was updated on the old server. So somehow the combination of PHP version and the other software caused all these problems.

wolfstad, can you please share your php and mysql versions now that it’s working? I think I’m having the same problems.