Posts gone– all but 3, but not visible

  • After fixing an error in cron.php due to what I think is poor programming or a mistake that made my website blank, now I get no posts except 3 but are not visible on the site except in the Admin panel. (cron.php failed to include http.php in the file, thus PHP errors for calling up a function it thought it did not exist. Had to put include(“http.php”); at the top of the file below <?php)

    Site again is: [url]https://aselin.octoberasian.com[/url]

    How do I restore my posts?

    My backup is from 2.6.5 so I know the posts should be there. It even shows that my pages are there, but not there… if that makes sense.

    Posts section shows up 33-35 pages of posts or something, which is odd.

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  • Thread Starter octoberasian

    (@octoberasian)

    You guys should have done more bug testing by the way.

    This feels more like WordPress 2.7 RC3 than final honestly given the number of post installation problems popping up on the forum.

    Thread Starter octoberasian

    (@octoberasian)

    No one has figured this out?

    I’m having the same issue. See my thread. It might help a little even though I haven’t totally figured it out yet.

    Disable all plugins including the one you ask for a math question on registration.
    Change to the WordPress Default Theme
    Update your permalinks.
    Logout
    Clear your browser cache and cookies
    Clear any cache folder if using a caching plugin

    There isn’t a problem with 2.7. There are problems either with the person upgrading, the server, etc.

    @octoberasian

    Obviously these “poor programmers” know more than you if YOUR “fix” screwed your posts. I see that your posts are all showing now. I’m sure you found that the problem was YOUR error but you didn’t bother coming back here to state such.

    Thread Starter octoberasian

    (@octoberasian)

    Your reasoning does not explain why cron.php were showing undefined function errors in the logs. After MichaelH said those functions were part of http.php, I had to add myself the line include(“http.php”); to the top of the cron.php file just to fix it. That got my blog working again, but not the posts.

    This was before and even after it was suggested I try re-uploading those files using ASCII transfer.

    Re-downloading the installation zip file again and re-uploading and restoring the database in phpMyAdmin and re-upgrading the database tables still did not fix the undefined function errors.

    For a final release, it should not have happened. Simply put.

    After two release candidates of WP 2.7, someone should have picked up that problem.

    Heck, I followed the step-by-step instructions on how to upgrade WordPress to 2.7 to the dot, and I mean to the dot.

    MichaelH actually had a viable fix in his suggestion above: change to the default WordPress Theme.

    All it took from there now was to re-test all the themes that work and don’t work in WP 2.7. Only plugin that’s a little wonky is Simple-Press Forum– some parts of the forum are missing images or incorrect colors because white-colored text is unreadable. And, this is in three of the twelve themes I have installed. Re-uploading Simple-Press Forum hasn’t fixed it.

    I’m sorry to be harsh in my criticism, but given the two to three pages of posted threads on this forum from users who are having issues from new installations to upgrades, the final release of WP 2.7 should not have had these problems to begin with. I was only expecting broken plugins but not missing posts, missing sidebar, database issues, and whatever else has been posted thus far.

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