Post interface changed; can't post at all

  • I went to post on my blog, and I’m seeing a different post interface. Many of the sections in the sidebar to the right aren’t showing, and I’m seeing a Submit for Review post, suggesting that my user doesn’t have admin rights (it does; I logged out and in again to make sure).

    I haven’t updated any plug-ins in about two weeks, yet this problem just seems to have started in the past couple of days (my last post was on May 27). No plug-ins were updated since then.

    I was thinking it might be Jetpack, which changes its content according to what WP sets. So I deactivated it, but this didn’t fix the issue. However, trying to log into WordPress.com through Jetpack, I got this message:

    Your Jetpack has a glitch. Something went wrong that’s never supposed to happen. Guess you’re just lucky: verify_secrets_missing

    Any ideas what’s going on?

    [No bumping. If it’s that urgent, consider hiring someone.]

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  • Thread Starter kirkmc

    (@kirkmc)

    I tried deactivating all plug-ins, then reinstalling WordPress, and I still have the same problem. I get the full interface if I want to edit existing posts, but I can’t post anything new. Could there be a permissions issue with any specific WordPress files? If so, how would I find which ones?

    Thread Starter kirkmc

    (@kirkmc)

    I’m finding another problem: I wanted to create a new admin user to see if the same thing occurred, and the creation didn’t work. The email sent to the user’s address says the following:

    New user registration on your site Kirkville:

    Username:

    E-mail:

    So it looks like there’s something messed up with users, their permissions, etc. Can anyone help me figure out what’s broken?

    Info on permissions here:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_File_Permissions

    Link to your site might be useful.

    Thread Starter kirkmc

    (@kirkmc)

    https://www.mcelhearn.com

    Hmm, weird – but that JetPack message might be telling. Have you tried resetting the plugins folder (via FTP rename it something else – i.e. “pluginsHOLD”) – sometimes and inactive plugin can still hangon and cause problems.

    Thread Starter kirkmc

    (@kirkmc)

    Good idea, but that didn’t fix it. I’m wondering if there’s database corruption.

    I don’t know, but I don’t know much about that end of things (sorry). Do you have any caching on your server? You might also try switching to the default theme (twentytwelve) with no plugins first – just to rule out problems there. (Not ideal I know – I expect your site is pretty busy – I read your stuff in MacWorld, BTW ?? )

    Thread Starter kirkmc

    (@kirkmc)

    It looks like it has something to do with my mySQL database being over quota; by 50%. I’m guessing something got locked down on my host’s server. It turned out that the Redirection plug-in was storing huge logs. I’ve deleted the plug-in, but the problem hasn’t been solved. I might have to wait a while for the host to notice that the db is smaller…

    Yow – that’s a lot! Did deleting it actually remove all that from the DB? If so, maybe ask your hosts to notice it sooner?

    Thread Starter kirkmc

    (@kirkmc)

    Well, getting in touch with them is painful. So I’m trying to create a new db, then export/import. Interestingly, the old dbs – ones I set up years ago – are limited to 100 MB, which isn’t much. But new ones get 1024 MBs. So why would they have blocked me…?

    Of course, maybe they didn’t, because my quota showed me as being way over the 100 MB, but it was still working for a while…

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