dropsofblood

Hi, Azaozz,

I’ll try deleting my browser’s cache; thanks. Does this mean you think it might be a problem with cookies? If so, is there a long-term fix you’d recommend?

My antivirus/spyware programs all pre-exist my installation of WordPress and didn’t interfere with it initially. The problems started when I upgraded to 2.2. I use McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.0.0 (my office provides it to us for home office use so we don’t upload viruses to the office network when working from home). I have Spybot and Ad-Aware on my computer but only run them when I have problems (many months ago).

I will try Firefox, thanks; I’ve avoided it since my early adopter experience with it wasn’t so great but will give it another try. I just noticed some issues with Opera today, although they are minor compared to the “I can’t write new posts” dilemma; using Opera seemed to fix the posting/editing problem. (One Opera issue is that the field where I type new posts sometimes seems to lose word wrap capabilities; a paragraph will go off endlessly to the right. Arrgh.)

Thanks for taking a look at this. — Carolyn

Update: Fixed (at least for now). At the suggestion of my host, I tried using a different browser to access my WordPress admin interface. I was *very* doubtful this would help, but gave it a go. I installed the latest version of Opera … and whaddaya know … now I can write new posts without problems.

Could it be something as simple as an incompatibility between WordPress 2.2 and Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11?

Sheesh. I’d still love to hear some feedback from the WordPress experts anyway. Sorry for the flood of info from me, but I figured too much was better than not enough. ??

One last comment: The WordPress Codex says file permissions for the wp-admin folder (which is where these error messages all come from) should be set so only the user account can write to them. Is that correct? Does that mean setting it to 666, or what? Would it help or create problems if I gave more liberal permissions? (I’ve tried up to 776 without any improvement.)

Had a second thought: Why does the error message say that WordPress is trying to write to:

URL://https://dropsofblood.com/wordpress/wp-admin/post-new.php

when I’ve actually set the path to include the “www”?

I don’t understand …

Thank you! This problem was driving me bonkers on my two WordPress blogs, and changing the WordPress address and the Blog address as you advised has resolved it for me as well.