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I am running PHP 5.3.6 and MySQL 5.1.55

I went to that thread and joined conversation, asking a question.

could this also be the reason behind my WP plugins, themes and everything else not being able to connect to anything outside of my WP?
I am unable to get updates
It won’t send any info to wordpress.com or org, or google analytics, jetpack, etc.
It says it’s got the most updated WP but it’s 4.0, not 4.1 I can’t upload 4.1 because it doesn’t allow me the option since it already thinks it has the latest version.
I’ve called my host (Yahoo) and they say they see no issue. I haven’t asked specifically about the cURL SSL library yet though.
Thanks,
M

WPyogi,
I contacted the host a 3rd time. They are convinced it is something within WP, not with their servers. They say their firewall and all DNS are showing to be running fine.
So, here is the situation at this time.
I am running WP 4.0. I would upgrade but WP thinks 4.0 IS the latest and is giving me no options for updating to 4.1
All plugins are blocked from communicating with their servers to upgrade, test, etc. Doesn’t matter what plugin.
The plugins page will not contact www.remarpro.com, nor will the theme update page.
I cannot update the theme with an upload because it says the theme already exists.
All plugins are unable to contact their servers, including Jetpack, Askimet and others that try to connect to WP.com or org.

I looked into debugging but that WP_debug is not suppose to be used on live sites it says.

I truly am at my wits end and would really like someone to be able to look at this issue from inside my WP. Is there any chance someone at WP can do that?
Thanks,
M

I’ve contacted the host (yahoo) twice by phone. Each time they said everything was working fine from their end and that it was a wordpress problem and they couldn’t help. I was not a happy camper.

Hi Yogi, I did turn all plugins off and went back to my old theme and all the problems still existed. I also did contact Elegant Themes and they suggested the same things. I guess I need to do it again and be more rigorous about it. It seems weird to me that every single type of communication back to a third party is now impossible, no matter if it’s wordpress.com, .org, google, Elegant themes, or any number of plugins. It doesn’t make sense to me yet.
Thanks,
M

I’ve since tried using the default theme. It didn’t change anything.

I did those things listed at the Jetpack site and still have the problem with it and all the other sites. It just seems to be a much bigger issue than just Jetpack. I haven’t tried going back to the default theme yet, will do that next. Thanks.

I did that and reactivated just jetpack. This is the message I got.
Jetpack could not contact WordPress.com: register_http_request_failed. This usually means something is incorrectly configured on your web host.
Couldn’t resolve host ‘jetpack.wordpress.com’

I’ve attempted to talk to the webhost (yahoo) and they say it’s not their issue but a wordpress issue. ?

I can turn them off one by one instead of renaming the plugins folder?

I actually can’t create the categories on my iPad either. I thought I could, it looked like it had acknowledged the new category, but when I went to look, it wasn’t there.
I have not tried any of those things esmi.
I can try deactivating the plug ins and/or resetting the plugins.
I can’t reupload all files and folders. I have 6 years worth of almost daily images to deal with.
Any idea why I can upload images via my iPad but not my desktop?

I restored the databases to before my theme change, still didn’t work. It even stopped me from getting to the blog via a browser. But I did get a message saying I needed to repair the databases, which I did. It was unable to repair one thing, saying

wp_options: Table is marked as crashed

So, now the question is, do I delete the table? or repair it or? I don’t know the next step.

I found the siteurl in wp_options and it’s what it is suppose to be. Not sure what I am looking for when you say ‘home values’ though.

I did it through the mysql way. Didn’t fix the issue.

Thanks KM, I will do that. I also had yahoo get back to me. They say it is this php code problem.

“There is an issue with the PHP coding that was recently made.

The error scripts logs indicates the following error message ‘PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare check_password_reset_key() (previously declared in /blog/wp-login.php:281) in /blog/wp-includes/user.php on line 1637’. You need to correct the coding in the above mentioned pages to gain access to the WordPress control panel.

Here is a bit of the code.
1636 return new WP_Error( 'invalid_key', __( 'Invalid key' ) );
1637 }
1638
1639 /**
1640 * Handles resetting the user's password.
1641 *
1642 * @param object $user The user
1643 * @param string $new_pass New password for the user in plaintext
1644 */
1645 function reset_password( $user, $new_pass ) {
1646 do_action( 'password_reset', $user, $new_pass );
1647
1648 wp_set_password( $new_pass, $user->ID );
1649 update_user_option( $user->ID, 'default_password_nag', false, true );
1650
1651 wp_password_change_notification( $user );

Maybe this all has to do with a password resetting? I don’t know how to reset my password if I can’t get in to reset it.

thanks again for your help, M

neither of those solutions worked. I renamed one, then the other. The result was the URL above was not redirected like it had been, but it still didn’t go to my WP panel. It’s just a blank white page, sometimes with a 500 general error.
I did what Tara suggested and got rid of all old themes, except one, then renamed the current theme. No luck.
Not sure what to do next.