• Whereabouts in the filesystem do draft autosaves go? I have a problem probably something to do with Permissions or file ownership. The system will say “Saving Draft” and then the Publish button is greyed out.

    Thanks for any help in being able to fix this.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Have you tried:
    -deactivating ALL plugins temporarily to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin(s). If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try deactivating via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides. If applicible, also remember to deactivate any plugins in the mu-plugins folder. The easiest way is to rename that folder to mu-plugins-old.
    – To rule out any theme-specific issue, try switching to the unedited default TWENTY TWELVE theme for a moment using the WP dashboard. If you don’t have access to your admin area, you can switch to the default theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using via FTP or SFTP or whatever file management application your host provides. Alternately, you can remove other themes except the default theme. That will force your site to use it.
    resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems (because the hooks remain unless plugins completely removed or some plugins stick around in cached files. So by renaming the folder, you break them and force them inactive).
    – If the above troubleshooting steps fail to resolve the issue, try manually re-uploading all files and folders EXCEPT the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones. Read the Manual Update directions first!

    Thread Starter socialnseo

    (@socialnseo)

    I will do all this if I need to but I am pretty confident it is not the fault of any plugin or theme but rather of file permissions. However when I tried to follow the instructions on how to set permissions from the Codex what happened was I could not even upload plugins at all.

    I have php running as a module not as the user itself, which might be an issue.

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