david7

Mac’
wp-admin and wp-includes now deleted and replaced with the WPv4 files and IT WORKED! I never thought I could be so pleased to see the WP dashboard again.

Many thanks

David

Mac’
I have renamed all the root directory files with an extension “old” (except the wp-config.php file) and uploaded all the new WP4 files, doing so produces a new error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_session_token() in /websites/123reg/LinuxPackage22/ke/mn/ay/kemnay.info/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1751

Renaming the plugins folder “plugins.hold” makes no difference.

The problem occurred when I was updating plugins which were flagged red for update. After updating there was one more shown at the top of the page WordPress v4 which was hyperlinked so I clicked it and it went something like unpacking, verifying, preparing maintenance mode, installing … and nothing after that, the screen just hung.

Initially the website pages would not display, with an error message relating to a “style.php” file. I located that in WPv4 and uploaded it to WP-includes and to my relief all the webpages returned to normal.

At the moment I can get as far as logging in but then the above error message

I agree with your thoughts that I don’t think it installed properly but I am sitting here dreading the thought of deleting the wp-includes and wp-admin folders and uploading the new WPv4 versions … I dread the thought that the whole site gets messed up. It looks increasingly like I have no option. Do you think I could rename the existing folders by adding “old” and then upload the new wpv4 folders? I have even been toying with the idea of by the same process going back to WP v3.9.2, which I d/l earlier today.

Thanks for the help

David

MacManX

You say I don’t have the same problem, ok let me put it this way:

It appears my site automatically upgraded today. Since then I have not been able to log into the back panel.

My error is:
Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Session_Tokens’ not found in /home/content/c/o/t/cotrsermons/html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 879

I have disabled plug-ins and still get the same error. I am now seeing where others are receiving a similar error.

Sound familiar?

The above fix didn’t work, if I post it under a new thread someone will just kindly provide me with a link back to this thread for a solution and we just go round and round in a loop.

Hi

I have the same problem, I have d/l WP4 and uploaded the files session.php and wp-settings php but doing so produces a new error message:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp_get_session_token() in /websites/123reg/LinuxPackage22/ke/mn/ay/kemnay.info/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 1751

There were other problems after upgrading to WP4 which I have resolved but this one just has me beat. We can’t make any changes to our village website and I don’t think I will ever upgrade versions again IF I am ever able to access the site again that is. I have wasted days on this problem.

Please can anyone suggest a solution?

Thanks, I will try that but meantime, what are the “extra buttons” you refer to? All those buttons have been there since I first started using WP in December 2013.

David

Thanks for the link kjodie, I will bookmark the page but a lot of the discussion there is a bit over my head.

Hmm so what do we do, just wait for a fix? Is anyone at WP working on an update?

I am having the same problem pasting tables from Word 2010 into WP3.9 I am not into css / html coding and I don’t want to be because I don’t have the inclination or time. I just want to run our village website.

I can paste tables from Word to WP using CtrlV but the table has no vertical or horizontal lines, text size doesn’t paste and most disappointing of all is that all the coloured cells just display as white. On the plus side boldface seems to transfer and thankfully so do the hyperlinks. The new pages just look boring now compared to previously being able to paste all the Word formatting. Here is what I have at present, a page created with the old version of WP

https://www.kemnay.info/yellow-page/

and this is all I can achieve now

https://www.kemnay.info/diary-of-events/

and I had to physically change the font size of the headings in WP.

If this is the future for WP then I suppose I will just have to look for a different program to use because frankly I just don’t have time or the inclination to learn css / html coding.

Another option might be to uninstall WP3.9 and reinstall the previous version, I will have to investigate that option. Meantime I dearly wish the WP writers would at least give us the option of being able to paste Word docs into WP

Incidentally I get the same results using both FF and Chrome.

One final point is that when editing a page in WP3.9, the full toolbar area is now far too large. There are 4 lines of buttons as before but now below that is an equal amount of blank unused toolbar space which is so irritating because it takes up space of the editing window below and I have to keep scrolling up and down all the time. I can get around it by using the toolbar toggle but what is the point of this wasted empty toolbar space?

David