Media library cannot load in 4.5.2

Having the same issue here. I’ve tried everything, changed file permissions, made a new upload folder, updating every plugin, deactivating every plugin, replaced wp-admin and wp-includes folder with fresh. Doesn’t seem to solve it. Anyone with a solution?

Also reporting this error in 4.5.2. Uploader isn’t working properly either. It errors out with no actual error message.

It could be because your server is using an outdated version of Imagick.

The following was stated by @james Huff(Volunteer Moderator)

Image uploads may fail on servers with an older version of Imagick. (See Trac ticket #36534) Note: while a fix for WordPress is in progress, updating Imagick on the server is also a solution.

You should definitely check out the 4.5 Master List as most of the issues are posted there.
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/read-this-first-wordpress-45-master-list?replies=7

citra, that’s good info, but it is not in relation to the media page not loading at all. To add, ImageMagick on my server is up to date, and the problems I stated I have, as the op still don’t seem to be resolved.

The Media Library will load if you select to view it as a list, but not if it’s selected to be viewed in tiles (as it is by default when selecting a featured image).

https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/36794

Seems there is a ticket associated with this issue though.

@ttc262686 You do have some javascript errors when your site loads. Try posting to the theme support site. https://www.ads-software.com/themes/virtue/

@smileyjoey Did you try the twenty sixteen theme? Please post a link.

@kouin Have you tried:
-deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
-switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems. Please post a link.

In the future please start your own thread per the forum welcome.

kmessinger –
Perhaps I’m missing something about WP functionality, but why would front-end theme design impact the backend media library loader? Does WP’s admin panel not run on its own theming structure?

I can confirm there are no JS errors being thrown by my browsers, that is…as I outlined in the trac ticket, IE 11, Edge, and Chrome. I also tested this on a clean install, which rules out plugins and the default theme.

There’s no link to present, because it’s in the admin panel, it’s not a public part of the site.

Some themes add functions to the admin panel. And this is where we start debug 101 kinda like in the old days when the first step was to reboot.

I can’t duplicate the error and looking at the users of WordPress without the problem makes this a localized problem.

The uploader. Did you try both?

Try this. In the wp-config.php file change this, define('WP_DEBUG', false); to this, define('WP_DEBUG', true); and see if any errors show up.

I actually did do this, but the only issues that come up are in reference to there not being an “advanced-cache.php” file, which also occurs with a clean install – relegated to the line which checks for the file.

I just also put the admin panel through the console built into Edge and Chrome, both show no errors.

The only other thing that came up was in relation to ini_set being disabled. But the lines that reference where the ini_set issue is refer to load.php and that doesn’t give me any information as to where the actual issue is located. Has WP posted that ini_set() being enabled is now a requirement?

I’m sorry, I only answered two of your questions.

As for the uploader – that’s not the issue. The uploader in general is fine. This is localized ONLY to the Media Library displaying images within it. That is, if you have it set to list mode, it will display, but if it’s set to the tile mode, it will hang and never load. That wouldn’t be a problem IF there was a way to change it so that inserting media and adding feature images for posts did not load in tile mode.