William Bowles

“1. Sounds like your theme may have used an old template tag for these links that are no longer supported. Check the relevant template file for the tag used to generate the Admin and Login links. For example, if they were in the footer, you’ll need to check your theme’s footer.php file. The tag you need to insert is wp_loginout() which will generate both the Login and Admin links appropriately.”

I’m using the plaintxt theme that has two sidebars and the Login/Register Widgets normally reside at the top of the left-most sidebar.

Where would I put “wp_loginout()”? I have no knowledge of PHP whatsoever I can try and hack it.

I already did a reupload of both wp-admin and includes folders, no change.

Bill

Ditto on this, adding captions to images never works! Well once in a blue moon.

Bill

Yeah but this seems to be the case only if you have the Thesis Theme installed (which I don’t).

B

How about the standard Widgets Login and Admin vanishing completely? Also, no login or Comments link on posts?

Real bummer as it means nobody can register or login or leave comments!

Also, removing an installed Widget removes it completely, rather than storing it in the inactive list as 2.8 informs us it will, so it has to be recreated from scratch!

Bill

https://www.creative-i.info

PS: Also, just discovered that when you drag an installed Widget to deactivate it, it just disappears instead of being saved in the inactive list. A real pain as I’ve now lost all the code!

Another peeve, I have a bunch of unused RSS Widgets that are always open, so I have to close them all and it doesn’t get saved.

Nope, it’s gone and I’ve just noticed that when I’m not logged in, the login tag is missing from all the posts as well. Not at all happy with the ‘improvements’ to the admin pages like Widgets and Plugins. Why fix it if it ain’t broke?

B

Also, when you try to reorder the widgets, dragging the widget to its new location works but there’s no save button so I assumed it did it without doing a save. No luck, still in the same position.

Bill

PS: WordPress 2.8

Hi Samboll,
Okay, fixed! Your suggestion that the wp_options was buggered, was right on the money!

Many thanks

Bill

Hi Samboll.
Not sure how to do that as I can’t get into the site. Maybe the hosting co could?

Also, vindictive visitors have tried to setup a new site by filling in the activate page that you arrive at. Will this have wiped out the DB? (I have backups of the site and the db)

Bill

Oops! I installed phpadmin myself yesterday. What do I do? all the new files are still there and I’ve deleted the phpadmin folder.

PPS: Just tried to upload a post via Marsedit and got this error msg:

Can’t do post for Creative-i because the server reported an error. XML-RPC Response Parsing Failed: Error XMLParsingErrorDomain 0.

PS: I did a ‘clean’ install, that is, I put the site into maintenance mode, deleted all the files via Dreamweaver (except my plugins/themes) then uploaded all the new 2.7.1 files. It worked just fine.

It seems that nobody is interested. Still have the same problem all these months later. I suspect it’s the RSS widget

Bill

I’m having the same problem!

I upgraded to WP 2.7.1 yesterday and all seemed well, I’ve posted new content, no problem until just now. When I tried to access the site it takes me https://www.creative-i.info/wp-admin/install.php as if the site doesn’t exist.

I then checked via Dreamweaver that the site is actually there and it is. I’ve tried it with two different browsers and on another computer, same thing, no matter that I enter the right URL, the browser always appends wp-admin/install.php to the address.

What’s going on, this is a disaster!

Bill

Could be, but the thread you cite is over 1 year old and refs V2.2

The thought of having to go thru all this is just too much for me right now but thanks

B