dhshultz

Thank you – you provided precisely the information that I needed.

Had not done phpMyAdmin for a while, but I found Repair easily enough. I repaired the cited tables, and I optimized one remaining table that had overhead.

This matter now is resolved. Thanks, again.

After 2+ hours of hands-on analysis two days ago, Anca Mosoiu of Tech Liminal in Oakland, CA solved my problem – which was pretty obscure, and while we know where it was, we don’t know exactly what it was.

The problem was not in any of the scripts. It was somewhere in one of the MySQL databases. The resolution came when a .gz backup was downloaded to a local PC, unzipped, re-zipped, then uploaded. From that point on, I was able to edit posts, and Google was able to crawl my blog.

Two significant developments:

1. I created a new post, and I can edit it even though I can’t edit the old ones!

2. Looking at Google crawl errors (for every post and page on my blog), I see that the URLs have only the post-name part of the Permalink, but not the preceding date portion (which always has been part of my blog’s Permalink structure).

I am optimistic that if I can figure out why Google is getting bad Permalink URLs, I can fix the post-edit problem, too.

Renamed themes-old. Found my original theme is no longer available, so I chose another (more like what I need than twenty fourteen). Problem still there: Edit-post screen lacks post content.

Renamed plugins-old. Had to add Yahoo! Customizable Permalinks plugin to make permalinks work. (Will add some others for better user experience.) Problem still there.

I see (through experience and research) that Yahoo! does not allow .htaccess file (through either their File Manager or FTP). Perhaps this is related to my problem and Google’s inability to crawl my blog, though it is not clear why this problem would pop up after four years.

I followed these instructions:

Download the fresh copy of wordpress and upload “wp-admin” and “wp-includes” folder and also all files except wp-config.php

The problem still is there.

Does this mean there is a problem somewhere in my wp-content folder?

Thank you. I downloaded 3.8.1.

It’s late evening here, so I think I should wait until tomorrow (worried about making an even worse problem).

I appreciate your walking me through this process. Will post results.

Thanks. (BTW, renaming two folders “-old” did not solve problem.)

Concerning re-install:

I see the wp-content folder. So I delete the two others, wp-admin and wp-includes?

I see wp-config.php. So I delete roughly two dozen other files, including one for Google Analytics?

I don’t see .htaccess. Could that be my problem?

Thank you. Was able to do, so far, some of what you prescribed.

Hosted on Yahoo! Can do a fair amount with their File Manager.

Don’t know what it means to “reset” the plugins folder.

Based on another answer I saw, I did a Re-Install Now from the Updates page. Problem *not* solved.

Yes. As stated in my original post:

1. I deactivated all plugins; changed to Twenty Twelve default theme; logged out; cleared my browser cache (Firefox – problem occurs with IE, too); and logged back in. Problem still is there.