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Oh, WraithKenny, with no clue as to the actual cause of not only my problem, but others experiencing the same issue, why would you jump to the conclusion that it is “user error?” Is it impossible for the WP team to have screwed up?

When the Boeing 787s had their first fires, did you immediately claim “pilot error?” Or when a bridge collapses, is that “driver error?”

I am offended that upgrading [automatically, not manually] to 3.6 is automatically “user error.”

Hello WraithKenny:
I believe I am being respectful of the post contributors, I very much appreciate their inputs – it is the WP developers that I am unpleased with.
It is common good practice when coming out with a new version of software that it be backwards compatible with previous versions – unless it is clearly announced that this is a new departure and will not be backwards compatible. I believe that the WP team broke that practice. It is unfair to unleash a new version only to cause agony to who knows how many people – without warning everyone?

Let’s say this is not a core bug [unknown for sure at this time, but since some people presumably are not having the problems, then this is one possible scenario], then there must have been some protocol change that causes conflict either with themes, or with plugins. If this is the case, does that mean all now-offending themes/plugins will have to be re-written? That is not a reasonable situation, many authors will not want to do that, and people will lose functionality of their WP

If it is a core problem, then bugs do happen, and I presume someone is working on that. But I see no indication that the WP team is aware of this, or doing anything to fix it. If it is a protocol change of some sort, then it is hard to maintain respect for people who violate a trust.

Am I wrong???

Thank you. Couldn’t find it.

This is really curious. The other post, with 23 comments, has been taken down. Why? Does someone not want the problems with 3.6 to be known?
I am not a conspiracy theorist, but why would an active thread disappear?

Hi Crazy:
I agree – 3.6 is garbage. Any yet others are saying it is not the root of the trouble. All I know is that everything was fine before the upgrade, now I am shut down completely. This is maddening!
To top it off, as I said, I went back to my 3.5.x version [ completely working before], and not trying to log in as admin gets me this ##5^$&^*( page that says I must upgrade.
On my other post, 23 people made comments – either trying to help or complaining that they have the same problem. this is not just me, or you, there are a number of people out there with the problem.
Let me ask this, I am using the plugin S2member; are you? I wonder if that could be a common thread? If we can find the common thread, we can get to the bottom of this.
If not, my site will be shut down until I can get the WP portion redone in some other system; that could take weeks, and I can’t be down that long without major damage done.

What do you mean by upgrade better? upgrade to what? I am ready to jump ship on WP in an instant if I can get something else up and running quickly.

I posted a question on the theme forum for Alexandria – the theme I am using.
We will see if that yields anything.

There are now 3 others with a similar problem. Assuming each of these 4 are using different themes, and have different plugins, I am starting find it difficult not to believe it is something in 3.6 causing this.
The fact that many more haven’t reported it may mean that the 4 of us may have something in common, but how to find that common thread? It may be some unique combination of configurations that causes a problem.

Oh, I didn’t customize anything [I am HTML illiterate]
I thought the warning was about losing all of the settings I did in WP.
I did nothing to the theme, or WP for that matter, only do all of the things in the various menus to make it look and function as I wanted.

The site is https://www.univent.org
To get to the WP portion,
https://www.univent.org/inventonomics

It came from the WP.org site. Author is tskk. I just checked, it is still listed there.

It will take me a while to figure out exactly what you are suggesting.
First, I will download the complete WP folder so if I screw it up, I can just upload what I have right now.

Before doing that, I just checked. I am using the theme Alexandria. I have version 1.04, and the latest is 1.10. to upgrade that, it warns that I will lose all customization. That sounds like a lot pf possible work to recover to where I am.
Is there any way to find out if Alexandria 1.04 has a problem running with 3.6? If the problem is there, at least I will know what I face.

No. I have done nothing different since it worked, except upgrade.
All links appear to work, I can call the WP portion of my site from elsewhere, it is there and working. The only problem is, I can’t modify it.

Yes, I have done everything suggested.
Again, I must emphasize that everything was working until I upgraded to 3.6. Now I cannot modify any page but I am “connected,” unlike what the error message is saying.

I may have found something. I went to disable all plugins, and got another error message – “WP Super Cache is disabled. Please go to the plugin admin page to enable caching.“

So I followed the link provided.
That got me to this notice –

“.htaccess file may need to be moved
It appears you have WordPress installed in a sub directory as described here. Unfortunately WordPress writes to the .htaccess in the install directory, not where your site is served from.
When you update the rewrite rules in this plugin you will have to copy the file to where your site is hosted. This will be fixed in the future.

I am not sure what this means, BUT, I installed WP in a subfolder of my site. WP is only part of the site, so I want it separated in its own folder.

This worked fine up until 3.6.
I guess my next question is – how do I backtrack to the previous version, if 3.6 handles something differently?

OK, so I am not the only one – probably many with this problem.
Is anyone working to resolve the issue?

I use Hostgator.

I went into cpanel, and extracted the raw access files. It is long with a lot of entries. I do not know how to decipher it.
I haven’t tried re-running the upgrade, I will try that shortly.
Are you saying that this is not a bug in 3.6, but possibly a corrupted install?