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Sorry it took so long to report back… It has been a heck of time figuring this out. We have isolated it to some issue around Tiny MCE, we don’t know what exactly but that is what is causing us to hang.

As a work around we have removed the visual editor from our profile but that causes problems for the not so tech savvy content writers.

We turned on debugging for Firefox and Chrome, when we switch between visual and html editor modes, we get 2 Javascript error. They are:

1. switchEditors is not defined
2. tinyMCE is not defined

We don’t know where something went wrong, to the best of our knowledge we did not manipulate this.

As part of our troubleshooting we also deleted the wp-admin and wp-includes and rebuilt from a fresh install file. This didn’t help either.

All the support posts we see about this are years old and don’t seem to apply to current versions (3.4.2)

Yes, we realize that 256MB is far too large, it was just a troubleshooting tactic and it has been set back to 64MB.

We will take a look at the max_execution_time as recommended and report back.

In the meantime we are also looking to rebuild our wp-config manually as it did not seem to get updated with the re-install.

The sidebar is likely specific to your theme, some themes allow for multiple sidebars others may not. Before we dig into code, your theme may actually have it setup in a widget form, thus a drag and drop – what theme are you using?

Since you are already in WordPress this is pretty simple.

All I recommend you do is create a category or group of categories that your blog will be about.

You can add the category or group of categories to your menu(s) in the appearances section.

From there, create posts as you would like and assign them to the category you setup and viola, you have a blog.