Website does load properly after update to V5.6

This may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to disable all plugins, and use one of the default (Twenty*) themes. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of your troubles.

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Hi Steven

Firstly, Thank you for your reply.

I have done this already and it didn’t make any difference to the issue. I also loaded the twenty twenty one theme and the issue of the menu loading strangely still remains although the colours etc changed ( which is to be expected on a new theme)

I disabled all plugins, all other themes besides 2021 and disabled all snippets as well. But its still the same

I also loaded the health check and it didn’t show any errors.

It looks to me like faulty CSS but I didn’t add or change anything on the site at all before this happened. Only the auto update of WordPress happened overnight from the 8th – 9th December

Are you aware of any issues with the loading of CSS in this version. Especially as the homepage loads

Thank you Stephen

• This reply was modified 4 years, 3 months ago by swall73.

The Chrome inspector shows 40 errors on your home page, mainly a lot of 404s from files that should be in 5.6. Go to DASHBOARD -> UPDATES and click the button to force 5.6 to reinstall.

Hi Steven

Thank your help so far.

This is a multisite installation – I presume it would be where to do the force re-install as i don’t see it anywhere else but in the network admin.

Am I to run the upgrade network functionality as well.

Regards
Stephen

Hi Steven

I ran the re-install which said it was successful however I still see many errors in the Chrome Inspector and the site still doesn’t load correctly.

Do you have any other idea’s perhaps ?

Regards
Stephen

You seem to be on WordPress 4.2.18. Have you tried 5.6?

Hi Steven

This cannot be correct. If I look on the far bottom right of my dashboard it says Version 5.6 and if I look at my host it also says that I have the latest version?? And I forced an update to the latest WordPress

I don’t know what else to say to you here. I am under the impression I am on v5.6

Maybe this is where the problem comes in.

Regards
Stephen

My worpress dashboard also says under “At a glance”

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Wordpress 5.6 running Twenty Twenty One theme

Regards
Stephen

Hmmm… not sure why I said that. Maybe I was looking at the wrong tab. Yes, you’re on 5.6.

This is one of the files that appears to be missing:

https://covidstop.co.za/development/wp-includes/css/dist/block-library/theme.min.css?ver=5.6

I get a 404 on that link. Please download a fresh copy of WordPress, unzip it locally, and then replace the contents of the wp-admin and wp-includes directories. Use FTP or the file manager app in your hosting control panel.

Hi Steven

So just to be clear. I should replace the contents of the wp-admin and wp-includes directories on my host with the contents from ths locally unzipped files of the fresh download

Thanks for all your help?

Regards
Stephen

Yes.

Hi Steven

I did as you suggested and copied the contents from wp-includes and wp-admin.

I didn’t find a single file that was not there already although I overwrote all of them .

Unfortunately this has not made any difference whatsoever.

Do you have any further suggestions perhaps?

Regards
Stephen

Thanks for your help Steven. Really appreciated

I decided that I have spent too much time trying to fix this issue and am rather going to build an improved version of the site from scratch. A “Lockdown Project” of sorts

Thanks again
Stephen