Can't edit or publish my last post or create new ones

  • Hi,
    I am new here and complete beginner so hopefully any help directed my way can be put in words that a 5 year old can understand because that’s my level!

    Ok, as quick as I can. Have a blog, only 4 posts so far and wrote one the other day that was saved as a draft. Went to publish it yesterday and it just kept loading and didn’t ever publish. That remains the problem now with this post and others. I cannot edit any posts or start a new post.

    When I click on a post to edit it the box where the post would be remains blank for a long time and the loading sign in the tab is present. I can click publish but the above happens but when I look at the list of posts it does have the newest time for when it was updated despite nothing being done.

    To try and solve this I have cleared my cookies and cache etc, re logged in to WP and nothing.
    I have deactivated the three plug ins I use and tried but it’s still the same. I have switched to the default theme and it still remains the same.

    I use Genesis with Spyr theme.

    I am not sure what else to try now so any help would be very appreciated.

    thanks ??

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  • @carlupshon
    It is ok to be new at WordPress and that is what makes the community so great! When you switched the theme and plugins did you disable them both together? If not, please do so.

    I recently have been running into some issues after an update due to database encoding/charset issues. Typical side effects tend to be continuous loading and blank editors even when I know there is content in the post.

    You will need FTP to check if the database encoding is what the issue is. Please refer to https://codex.www.ads-software.com/FTP_Clients for more information on what FTP is and how to do. If you are uncomfortable using FTP and your hosts allows you to modify file through your hosting control panel, then you can use that.

    What you are looking for is the line in the file wp-config.php.

    define('DB_CHARSET',.....

    If you change this line to the following

    define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');

    Does the issue go away?

    Thread Starter carlupshon

    (@carlupshon)

    Hi,
    Thanks for answering. I have tried the theme and plugins all together and still the same. I was on the phone to GoDaddy for about 45 mins earlier and they were trying to get the bug sorted. They said they increased my memory and something else they done that may work.

    They did manage to get it so that two test posts worked, they published fine but it would still go back to continuous loading when trying the older post.

    I have now just done what you asked with the DB_CHARSET line and it was already like the second example with the uft8 already included.

    Also now when I click to edit a post the post DOES show up, it’s not a blank screen but it still loads until it times out when trying to publish.

    thanks again for helping, anything else I can try?

    There is the possibility that you may have a corrupt upgrade or a plugin conflicting with WP.
    Try manually resetting your plugins (no Dashboard access required). If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.

    If that does not resolve the issue, access your server via SFTP or FTP, or a file manager in your hosting account’s control panel, navigate to /wp-content/themes/ and rename the directory of your currently active theme. This will force the default theme to activate and hopefully rule-out a theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).

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