jackie

Well I’ve heard back from my host and it is not good news. I do not know enough about the inner workings to know if their suggestion will make a difference. It seems odd that the blog would continue to work, as it does now, if the database was corrupt. Here is what they say:
Ultimately the problem is that specific pages (New Post, Edit Post, Customize Theme, et al) are not being rendered in their entirety. That is, a large portion of code is missing from the bottom of each of those pages. This code includes numerous JavaScript files that provide much of the functionality in the administrative control panel such as the Visual Editor. Because these scripts are missing, many of the features are broken. This normally signifies that there is a coding issue within your themes or plugins or your WordPress installation is corrupt (whether that be files or the database).
Unfortunately, after many hours of research and debugging, I have been unable to successfully correct the problem. I suspect however that the database is at fault as everything else has been ruled out. I’ve noticed that the table in your WordPress database that stores customizations and settings contains over 1,062,931 records. Most of these records pertain to themes, plugins, and other customizations (many of which are obsolete and not in use). Not only does this cause tremendous performance issues, but can cause conflicts that could possibly result in the issue you are seeing now.
My recommendation would be to export all of your content (pages, posts, tags, categories, uploads, and other media) and start with a fresh install (this means discarding your current database entirely). You can then import your content (using the exported XML file that WordPress creates) and make only the necessary customizations you need for your site, therefore correcting whatever database issue(s) may exist.
I am reluctant to go to all the trouble without being more confident that this will correct the issue.
What do you think?
Jackie

I’ll give that a go. They’ve been pretty responsive in the past.

This is an older site but it hadn’t seen much action for a few months. Went in and upgraded to 4.1 and then discovered problem.
Console shows:
Failed to load resource: net::ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH

The only plugin that was active was Akismet. It is disabled now – no luck.

I have cleared the cache, tried on Chrome & IE, deactivated ALL plugins, and am running Twenty Fifteen theme. Still no luck.
Probably related is the fact that I am unable to use Customize under appearance. Same thing happens – nothing! just the spinning indicator on the Chrome tab..

Thanks Sabinooo.
The blog displays fine. I can change the theme (but not customize).
I have reinstalled twice automatically and once manually – no change.
Tried new user – no help.
All plugins are off – theme is Twenty Fifteen.
I cannot find my IP in error log.
I do not understand why most functions are fine but almost all php files in the wp-admin file just spin and spin without completely loading.
I do not understand most of what is in the error log (and there seems to be one in almost every directory).
Still looking for help,
Jackie

Upon further investigation I’ve discovered that almost all of the phpo files in the wp-admin folder do not load. customize.php – post-new.php – edit.php – post.php & tools.php all fail to load. No errors are given, they just never load.
HELP!

Did this:
Settings -> General
Changed:
WordPress Address (URL)
Site Address (URL)
by adding www; then I just changed it back and every thing cleared up.
Don’t know why but problem resolved ??

It is amazing to me that there are so many people with this problem. There is obviously a bug. I believe it has something to do with some of the web hosts setup. The only solution that worked for me is having the web hosting company set the PHP safe mode to off.

Well, mine doesn’t have the first slash, ALL the folders are at 777, etc, etc (see my previous post). What is the problem? I did find a solution but it seems like a really bad idea. If (at my web host) I set PHP safe mode to off everything works. There should be a solution other than this. Hopefully there are now enough clues that the smarter ones can understand the problem and offer the correct solution. Please?

I am having the same problem. I’ve set chmod to 777 and still no joy. What I have discovered is that when my WP 2.8.4 tries to create a new folder the user/owner or whatever you want to call it is apache. For all of the other folders I am the user. I deleted the “uploads” folder and all the sub folders (I had manually created subs). In Plesk I recreated the uploads folder and I am the user. Now when I try to upload a picture. WP creates the next folder – 2009 but it’s user is apache and the next folder is not created. The error message is: “Unable to create directory /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09. Is its parent directory writable by the server?”
If I manually create the full path of folders and give them all chmod 777 then the message is “The uploaded file could not be moved to /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09.”
Any ideas?

I figured it out. I wasn’t paying close enough attention to the path it was giving. What I thought I saw was not what it was. Anyway, thanks for the awesome help.

OK – Thanks! I got the old posts imported. I didn’t stop to realize that it would overwrite a lot of things that I had already tweaked on the new setup. My problem now is: when I try to import the few post I had made in the new blog I receive the error “Unable to create directory /var/www/vhosts/mysite.com/httpdocs/blog/wp-content/” I think the problem may have something to do with the fact that the blog is actually at mysite.com/blog. It redirects fine. There must be a setting internally that I need to change? BTW this error comes even though the CMOD is at 777.

Count me among those who would really like to be able to pull FB comments into my WP blog.
Too bad I don’t have the know how to write a plugin myself. As big as the FB & WP markets are, you’d think someone would write something that users would be willing to pay for. It is a huge gap that is just waiting to be filled.

Thanks! I’ll give it a try & let you know.