On a VPS, I have 4 wordpress sites only 2 of which are really very active. I also have 2 test sites behind hide-my-site for testing new things before migrating them to the live sites. I use the combination of all my sites to progressively evaluate how a particular plugin is working (first in test, then live on one of the less active sites, then on my more active 2 sites.) I need to update to WP 4.4 but I must admit I usually wait to see what problems others have (and solve) before doing the updates.

Today, after editing existing posts for an hour or so, I couldn’t add new tags to existing posts or on existing posts editing pull up the list of tags to select new ones. I thought it was weird. Noted my computer was running a little slow so restarted it — ah, and then I got the stupid Microsoft is installing updates messages. I just figured OK the computer will go faster yeah–but then my wordpress seemed to be broken (it wasn’t, because I went to a different computer (Linux OS) and I could access everything just fine. On the Windows 8.1 newly updated machine, using Chrome, Firefox, or IE, the theme option’s interface stopped working, the widgets, menus, as well as the editing of existing posts–I couldn’t insert tags or see the tags that were already part of the post. All useless. Same with categories. This is all “point and click” stuff and while I was mulling it over I though maybe it is the java (on the 8.1 machine) needing updating–so did update it on the windows 8.1 machine but that didn’t help in editing from that machine.

I have a particular user on one of my sites who has struggled to get his windows 8.1 computer to work with the site–it doesn’t–so my interest here is pretty high as I’m now experiencing what he has been for the last year if he tries to use that particular computer to access the site and do stuff. I kept telling him–check your java…

I checked out my other sites on the various computers and discovered nothing that made any sense for me to solve my problem on my own. I tried on Windows 7 in VMware on the Dibian Jessie Linux machine –both those are fine with all 6 sites. I tried on a Raspberry Pi II running Debian Jessie and life is good there, too, I can edit, no problems.

But–I have users who must be able to edit in other OS including Windows 8.1 so I need to understand what’s going on and quickly. Not to mention that I must SHARE the Linux computer with my husband and either we’re going to be doing day-shift and night-shift use or I’ve got to get the Windows computer working with WordPress again. After penning this lengthy post, I’ll be off to look at Java and MS issues again…

There must be some difference among the 2 sites that work and the 4 that don’t work (now) with this newly updated Windows 8.1 computer. Five of my 6 sites use the same Virtue Premium theme, the 6th site uses Booklite theme. Some have WooCommerce and interestingly enough while I cannot edit the regular parts of the products (posts) I can edit prices, toggle switches, and things that are purely WooCommerce on those sites. While trouble shooting this today, on the lesser used sites, I had gone with no plugins and the most basic install of the theme (recall, I CAN use the themes and actually ALL the plugins on two of the sites and the only difference that I can really see is the test sites have very few posts, images, products while the other sites have quite a few.

All sites access the same WordPress install (but no, it’s not multi-site install) and they each have their own separate theme and child theme. The two sites that do work share the same directory for themes and plugins etc. Three of the sites that do not work on Windows 8.1 (but work with all other OS I have access to) share the same directories for themes, plugins, etc. The last site, that doesn’t work with 8.1, but works with all else, has it’s own separate directories for themes, plugins, etc.

It sees like this is core to WP editing or something. I have a custom WooCommerce extension that my users can use to edit/add products no problem with 8.1 but yet I cannot edit those products as admin as I was able to before today (using the WP dashboard interface). When I turn off all such extensions, doesn’t matter. Also one of the problem sites doesn’t even have WooCommerce–it doesn’t have anything.

Enough run-on. If anyone can assist–if you’ve dealt with windows 8.1 and anything similar–windows and similar? I’d appreciate your help. I’m a WP lightweight and my husband doesn’t do much with WP but did look over the database and all things associated to make sure that something obvious wasn’t going on–nothing was.

Help?
Thanks.

A) xampp-win32-5.6.3-0-VC11-installer.exe

B) bitnami-wordpress-4.1.1-0-module-windows-installer

Did clean install of A) then B) on a well-configured new windows 8.1 desktop PC. Using /localhost

I go into dashboard>appearance>themes

and the three themes there all appear as bland and white with no layout, no pictures etc. How do I make the themes work please?

Cheers,
Brad

I have run several malware and virus scanners. At first I found some but I have had 2 reboots with no new intrusions. What am I missing?

websites affected:
www.crbcsc.org
www.eventdecorandmore.net

Thank you for your help

Is there a fix for this?

There doesn’t seem to be an issue with non-WordPress sites.

I’m trying to install WordPress on a new Dell 8700 running Windows 8.1. I followed the steps noted in the Codex here, going to the Microsoft site and using the Web Platform installer. It fully downloaded and installed 17 of the 18 items but is stuck on installing MySQL Windows 5.1. There is no way to tell how far along in the install it is.

The Prerequisites tab has been completed, and it is at the Install tab. Configure and Finish remain. Behind the active Web Platform Installer 5.0 window is another WordPress Web Platform Installer window.It shows 2 items to be installed and is not accessible as the other window is the active one.

Help, please!?!

and thanks.

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It installed all the dependent software: IIS8 / mysql /php …

Pull up the c:\inetpub\wwwroot\workpress\readme.html
wp-admin/install.php in gives an error so created the wp-config.php file from the wp-config-sample.php.

Try to pull up the wp-admin/install.php and get the error:

WordPress requires that your web server is running PHP. Your server does not have PHP installed, or PHP is turned off.
>
get_var(“SHOW TABLES LIKE ‘$wpdb->users'”) != null ); // Ensure that Blogs appear in search engines by default $blog_public = 1; if ( ! empty( $_POST ) ) $blog_public = isset( $_POST[‘blog_public’] ); $weblog_title = isset( $_POST[‘weblog_title’] ) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST[‘weblog_title’] ) ) : ”; $user_name = isset($_POST[‘user_name’]) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST[‘user_name’] ) ) : ”; $admin_password = isset($_POST[‘admin_password’]) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST[‘admin_password’] ) ) : ”; $admin_email = isset( $_POST[‘admin_email’] ) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST[‘admin_email’] ) ) : ”; if ( ! is_null( $error ) ) { ?>

A couple of input boxes

/>

‘ . __( ‘Already Installed’ ) . ‘

‘ . __( ‘You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.’ ) . ‘

‘ . __( ‘Log In’ ) . ‘
‘ ); } $php_version = phpversion(); $mysql_version = $wpdb->db_version(); $php_compat = version_compare( $php_version, $required_php_version, ‘>=’ ); $mysql_compat = version_compare( $mysql_version, $required_mysql_version, ‘>=’ ) || file_exists( WP_CONTENT_DIR . ‘/db.php’ ); if ( !$mysql_compat && !$php_compat ) $compat = sprintf( __( ‘You cannot install because WordPress %1$s requires PHP version %2$s or higher and MySQL version %3$s or higher. You are running PHP version %4$s and MySQL version %5$s.’ ), $wp_version, $required_php_version, $required_mysql_version, $php_version, $mysql_version ); elseif ( !$php_compat ) $compat = sprintf( __( ‘You cannot install because WordPress %1$s requires PHP version %2$s or higher. You are running version %3$s.’ ), $wp_version, $required_php_version, $php_version ); elseif ( !$mysql_compat ) $compat = sprintf( __( ‘You cannot install because WordPress %1$s requires MySQL version %2$s or higher. You are running version %3$s.’ ), $wp_version, $required_mysql_version, $mysql_version ); if ( !$mysql_compat || !$php_compat ) { display_header(); die( ‘
‘ . __( ‘Insufficient Requirements’ ) . ‘

‘ . $compat . ‘
‘ ); } if ( ! is_string( $wpdb->base_prefix ) || ” === $wpdb->base_prefix ) { display_header(); die( ‘
‘ . __( ‘Configuration Error’ ) . ‘

‘ . __( ‘Your wp-config.php file has an empty database table prefix, which is not supported.’ ) . ‘
‘ ); } switch($step) { case 0: // Step 1 case 1: // Step 1, direct link. display_header(); ?>

ReadMe documentation at your leisure. Otherwise, just fill in the information below and you’ll be on your way to using the most extendable and powerful personal publishing platform in the world.’ ), ‘../readme.html’ ); ?>

error ) ) wp_die( $wpdb->error->get_error_message() ); display_header(); // Fill in the data we gathered $weblog_title = isset( $_POST[‘weblog_title’] ) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST[‘weblog_title’] ) ) : ”; $user_name = isset($_POST[‘user_name’]) ? trim( wp_unslash( $_POST[‘user_name’] ) ) : ”; $admin_password = isset($_POST[‘admin_password’]) ? wp_unslash( $_POST[‘admin_password’] ) : ”; $admin_password_check = isset($_POST[‘admin_password2’]) ? wp_unslash( $_POST[‘admin_password2’] ) : ”; $admin_email = isset( $_POST[‘admin_email’] ) ?trim( wp_unslash( $_POST[‘admin_email’] ) ) : ”; $public = isset( $_POST[‘blog_public’] ) ? (int) $_POST[‘blog_public’] : 0; // check e-mail address $error = false; if ( empty( $user_name ) ) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __( ‘Please provide a valid username.’ ) ); $error = true; } elseif ( $user_name != sanitize_user( $user_name, true ) ) { display_setup_form( __( ‘The username you provided has invalid characters.’ ) ); $error = true; } elseif ( $admin_password != $admin_password_check ) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __( ‘Your passwords do not match. Please try again.’ ) ); $error = true; } else if ( empty( $admin_email ) ) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __( ‘You must provide an email address.’ ) ); $error = true; } elseif ( ! is_email( $admin_email ) ) { // TODO: poka-yoke display_setup_form( __( ‘Sorry, that isn’t a valid email address. Email addresses look like [email protected].’ ) ); $error = true; } if ( $error === false ) { $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install($weblog_title, $user_name, $admin_email, $public, ”, $admin_password); extract( $result, EXTR_SKIP ); ?>

‘. esc_html($password) .’
‘; echo “

$password_message
“; ?>

Upon accessing the site I get the infamous: Error establishing a database connection.

I have tried the following:
Checked the parameters in wp-config.php – These correct.
Modified the urls “siteurl” and “home” fields in the wp_options table in the WP database. – These are correct.
Modified .htaccess in the localhost/wordpress folder and modified the RewriteBase /wordpress statement.
Checked the above several times for possible spelling errors.
Checked the connection to the database is working by using a testconnection.php script. The script works and reports successful connection. This also confirms that the dbhost, dbuser, and dbpassword are correct.
Checked the MySQL server is working – confirmed
Checked MySQL error log – no errors
Checked the Appache server is working – confirmed
Checked Appache error log – no errors
Checked PHP error log – no errors
Checked the database using phpMyAdmin – confirmed and Repaired
Tried to repair the database with the repair.php script in localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/maint – the script reports the database connection error
Tried to access the localhost/wordpress/wp-admin – it reports the following:

Error establishing a database connection
If your site does not display, please contact the owner of this network. If you are the owner of this network please check that MySQL is running properly and all tables are error free.

Could not find site localhost/wordpress. Searched for table wp_blogs in database wpdb. Is that right?

What do I do now? Read the bug report page. Some of the guidelines there may help you figure out what went wrong. If you’re still stuck with this message, then check that your database contains the following tables:

wp_users
wp_usermeta
wp_blogs
wp_signups
wp_site
wp_sitemeta
wp_registration_log
wp_blog_versions

Verified if wp_blog exists – confirmed.
Checked the bug report page Other lessor known issues:
Checked root (MySQL user) has all privileges to the wp database – confirmed

I would greatly appreciate any assistance in resolving this. Thank you in advance.

Again – no rush or anything because it’s just a stupid icon, but thought I’d ask since 8.1 has been out for around 2 months now.

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