missleilani

I also encountered this problem more than once – sometimes with edits, sometimes with new posts. It took me a long time to figure out why it was happening, but I did finally narrow it down.

If you paste ANYTHING into the editor window, even plain text sans coding, it disables your ability to publish or save the draft. Simply won’t do it. You’re required to type everything directly into the editor. You’ll get the same result if you have an error in editing custom HTML content for your post. So there’s no more editing elsewhere and pasting it in. Forget it, ain’t gonna happen.

It’s an issue for me (and how) because it caused me to lose several years’ worth of content. I’m going to try to go back and re-add my old content from the db I saved, but still annoys me to no end. The problem with edits is if you’re going into something older that had pasted content or html errors in the original text. It’s a significant problem and one I hope WordPress developers will look into instead of dismissing.

You’re welcome! I’m glad it worked ??

The kind of error you’re getting isn’t likely to be a plugin or theme issue, unless one or more is outdated and allowed an exploit. I’m inclined to think it’s malware that overwrote your home page.

If/when your hosting provider restores the previous version, please go through and be sure everything is up to date – the WordPress version, and all plugins and themes, including any that are disabled. Even if a plugin or theme is disabled it can provide an avenue for something malicious to take over your website.

You’re welcome. I’m glad you figured it out.

Hi Rozalynware. Do you have a direct link to the videos themselves, and have you confirmed they’ll play on your server? If you go to your media library and highlight the file, the link to it should show up on the right side along with the file name, your option to delete, etc.

If the file doesn’t play when you go directly to its link, there are a few possibilities. There could be a problem with the video file format, for example, or your hosting provider doesn’t support video playback. Those are the most common reasons a video file won’t play, but it could also be related to bandwidth or other limitations.

Hi Igor – it’s possible your visitors simply typo’d your website URL. You didn’t provide the URL so we can’t look at it ourselves to see what’s happening.

However, if this is intermittent, you might want to look closely at the error page. Some servers post a 404 error, but in smaller text below it says 403. A 403 error means the server is overloaded and can’t serve up the page at that time.

Hi Ashley – I haven’t seen that specific bug before with WordPress. It’s definitely not a standard WordPress index.php home page.

It’s possible there’s a redirect on the page. Check to see if you have an .htaccess file and rename it. If that fixes the problem, great! If not, look at your index.php file. For WordPress it’s normally only a few lines that look like this:

<?php
/**
* Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn’t do anything, but loads
* wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
*
* @package WordPress
*/

/**
* Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
*
* @var bool
*/
define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wp-blog-header.php’ );

If your index.php file says something else, please come back and let us know. At that point it could be old coding or malware. If it’s old coding you can simply replace it. If it’s malicious, you may need to do some rebuilding with all current WordPress, plugins and themes.

Hi Dunesint – your site error tells me that the plugin woocommerce-to-google-merchant-center is broken. I can’t tell you how to make the plugin work, but you can go into your wp-content/plugins folder and delete the folder named woocommerce-to-google-merchant-center. That should make your website live again.

I wanted to add to this because I believe I have an answer, if not a solution. I finally ended up backing up my posts table of my database and did a fresh install of WordPress with a default theme – no active plugins. I can publish a few words, but more than that ends up causing the same issue, bouncing me back to the same page.

Because it happens on a clean install, with NOTHING on the page, I have to believe that the problem is related to the server and possibly the php version. My server is running php 5.5.3. I tried everything under the sun with the previous installation and it simply wouldn’t help.

I’d already submitted a trouble ticket asking my hosting provider to update the php to a current version and got crickets.

I’ll update again if I can find any other information on the subject.

I stand corrected. It’s fixed on one site, but not on others. Again, since I made no changes to the working site, I still don’t have a clue why it started working again but the others didn’t.

Looks like whatever bug it was, it’s decided to clear itself up. I didn’t make any further changes, so no clue what either the cause or the cure turned out to be.

I went to twentysixteen theme and deactivated my plugins. Maybe I should literally remove the plugins – but frankly I only have half a dozen and they’re pretty standard ones. If I have to give up my Wordfence I’ll probably start looking for a different platform.

The wp-config.php was not only present, but I copied and pasted information from it into the install process. I’ll try to keep track of which plugins or themes are active, but in general the only thing I saw in common was the WP core.