lgpowell

Thanks for your response and for the link @wpwalker–it’s appreciated ?? If you wound’t mind would you clarify what you mean by “usually that will cause me to drop a plugin immediately”?

Does anyone know if Login Security Solution plugin is compatible with Login Lockdown?

Ok nevermind. Login Security Solution plugin is not for blocking out users. Anyone have any recommendations on a plugin to block out brute attacks since the “Limit Login Attempts” plugin they recommend is out of date?

lif3zero. Double check to see if “WPML Media” plugin updated during the WPML update. It should be version 2.1.6

Success! It was the WPML Media plugin!

After re-installing WP 4.0 I updated all available plugins. Then switched them all off Ipstenu suggested. No luck. I changed to the Twenty Fourteen theme as Ipstenu. No luck. At this point I started to panic a bit because I already tried manually upgrading WP and clearing caches…. But I kept playing around a bit, and with all these on and off switches I tried a new message appeared from WPML asking me to register my site on the WPML.org website…. Hmmm I thought I already did that, but let’s do it again. Did that, and then a new plugin update appeared that didn’t appear before. WPML Media plugin update. Updated. Everything back to normal!

Jancek, do you use WPML?

Ipstenu & BrewinReview- thanks again for the help!

Hi Brewinreview- Thanks for your suggestions. I do not use an image plugins… But I do think it’s probably a plugin issue/theme issue causing interference since not everyone in the WP community is having this issue….

I apologize I actually avoided troubleshooting this for some days now and I’m back on it. I originally reverted back to a backup: pre-WP 4.0 update and I am currently trying the suggestions of Ipstenu (thanks again!) since unfortunately the issue still persist.

To Jancek, I’ll be sure to communicate my findings whether positive or negative. We can also compare the plugins we use to see if we have anything overlap.

Hi Ipstenu, thanks so much for all the ideas. I have yet to try all except for clearing caches and copying the core wordpress files over from the new installation and see if it helped, but it didn’t work… I just opted back to my backup, pre- WP 4.0 update since I need to get somethings up on the front end, and I am going to try your suggestions after the business day.

I wish I thought earlier to try deactivating the plugins/switching the theme to see if there’s some kind of interference from something there. I think that could be the trick!

I’ll leave the thread open for now to update whether these things help!

Cheers!

mm