Thickbox intruding on plugins.php after updating WP

  • After updating WordPress from 3.2.1 to 3.8.1 (what I now know I should have done incrementally), the thickbox is all up on my plugins.php admin page.

    Anytime I click inside of the plugins.php page this gets added to the page:

    <div id="TB_overlay" class="TB_overlayBG"></div>
<div id="TB_window"></div>
<div id="TB_load" style="display: block;"><img src="https://renewthearts.org/wordpress/wp-includes/js/thickbox/loadingAnimation.gif" width="208"></div>

    I can click again and it goes away. But as soon as I click again, it comes back. I really can’t accomplish anything of value, because of it. I’m assuming it’s something leftover from the old installation, but I don’t know what to trash to fix it.

    I’d really rather not have to reinstall WordPress from scratch, though I’m sure it would be cleaner. Any help would be great.

    Thanks.

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  • Do you have a pre-upgrade database backup?

    Thread Starter ironoxidey

    (@ironoxidey)

    No (hanging my head in shame). Though I haven’t noticed that the content of the site has been affected. It’s just the admin stuff in the plugins page.

    Oh dear – then we may have a real problem. ??

    Try re-uploading all files & folders – except the root wp-config.php & .htaccess files and the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    Thread Starter ironoxidey

    (@ironoxidey)

    Would it be worth making a db backup now, to preserve the content of the site?

    It’s worth a try but if you do have db damage because of the huge single-step upgrade, that horse may well have truly bolted. ??

    Thread Starter ironoxidey

    (@ironoxidey)

    Well, I went ahead and deleted all the files you said to, and then uploaded them fresh. But the problem still exists.

    Could it be an issue with one of the plugins? A bunch of them are asking to be updated, but I don’t have a way to update them, because the thickbox keeps blocking me… =/

    Thread Starter ironoxidey

    (@ironoxidey)

    Is there a way to deactivate the plugins manually? I’d rather not delete them.

    Thread Starter ironoxidey

    (@ironoxidey)

    Okay. I think I may have narrowed it down to a problem with WP e-Commerce.

    I deleted /wp-includes/thickbox/ so that it would quit taking over.
    Then I deactivated all of my plugins, and reactivated them, one at a time.
    I put thickbox back when I finished experimenting, and all seems good now.

    Looks like I just need a new shopping cart plugin, now.

    Thanks for your help, esmi.

    No probs. Glad to hear that you seem to be on top of this one. ??

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