all pages and posts appear empty in dashboard but fine on live site

  • Everything was fine the last time I checked on Sept 4th, but I went in yesterday after the update to 4.6.1 and all of my post pages show empty content. Same with all my pages: empty. The titles and tags are there, but no words. Somehow my live site still has all the content showing up just fine, but the weird thing is that a bunch of ? have appeared throughout the text in the live site.

    I have tried
    – disabling ALL plugins
    – activated twenty eleven Theme (instead of my Minamaze Theme)
    – even tried restoring previous version of site

    Thanks for your replies

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    I updated my site to 4.6.1 yesterday. No such issue.

    So, try:
    – 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. Please 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. You can never have enough backups!

    Thread Starter diymontreal

    (@diymontreal)

    so far I’ve tried everything except the manual update… nothing has worked yet. I’m a bit nervous about doing this as I’m a bit of a newbie, but will make sure to backup first and keep you posted.

    Thread Starter diymontreal

    (@diymontreal)

    After manually updating WordPress as instructed, posts are still empty. ?? Word count: 0

    Can you create a new post and see if the same happens with it? Also, could you check your browser’s console to see if there are any JS errors? This might help with that: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Using_Your_Browser_to_Diagnose_JavaScript_Errors

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Maybe the site content is showing up if static caching is active.

    Check if your DB and all tables are there.

    Thread Starter diymontreal

    (@diymontreal)

    new posts are not affected. The content is saved and shows up when I return to edit.

    Also, I checked in my PHPadmin and it looks like the tables are there under Wp_posts.

    • This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by diymontreal.

    That’s weird. Could you try to use this plugin to clone an affected post and see if same happens on the duplicated post? https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/duplicate-post/

    Thread Starter diymontreal

    (@diymontreal)

    I tried the plugin – I can clone the new post I created today, but I can’t clone any of the old “empty” posts. Nothing happens when I try.

    lisa

    (@contentiskey)

    can you share a link to your website?

    are the new posts AND the old posts showing in the same wp_posts table?

    when you look at an old post in the database, is there post_content showing in the database cell?

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