Random Deletes, Copies, Selections

  • Resolved SteveO

    (@ogmeister)


    9 years ago

    Hello!

    I’m having the weirdest problem, on two separate servers…

    I’m having Ninja forms duplicate themselves, showing the same creation date on each clone.

    Pages are deleted by themselves, and re-delete themselves after I restore them. Sometimes they restore themselves between the time I notice they’re in the trash and when I try to restore them.

    A few minutes ago, I tried to configure a new plugin, and between the time I clicked the configure link and clicking the save link, that plugin and another one deactivated themselves.

    I just checked, and another plugin deactivated itself.

    This didn’t start happening until I started the switch back from Chrome to Firefox a few days ago.

    I can’t figure out why this is happening, especially on two separate servers. I checked for malware, and found none.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,
    Steve

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Have you tried:
    – Flushing any caching plugins you might be running, as well as server and/or browser caches. Also, any op cache or content network cache, as well as Cloudflare, clear those caches.
    – deactivating ALL (yes all) plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem (plugin functions can interfere). If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s).
    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP.
    – switching to the unedited default Theme (Twenty Sixteen, etc.) for a moment using the WP dashboard to rule out any theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).
    – If all the above steps do not resolve the issue, then try MANUALLY updating. Download a fresh copy of the WordPress .zip file to your computer, unzip it, and use that to copy up all files and folders EXCEPT the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory. You may need to delete the old wp-admin and wp-includes folders and files on your server before uploading the new ones. Read the Manual Update directions first.
    – Backup: If you haven’t already done, always backup everything (including your database) before doing any actions, just in case something really goes wrong.

    Thread Starter SteveO

    (@ogmeister)

    Update – I deleted some new plugins from Firefox, taking it back to a setup with known plugins. So far, I haven’t had any problems.

    I have no idea how a Firefox plugin was selectively deleting pages and deactivating plugins, but here we are anyway.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Glad to know it ??

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