“New Post” Page Not Loading Fully — No Errors Showing

  • Resolved Bill Kochman

    (@wordweaver777)


    6 years, 3 months ago

    Hello. I am using a self-installed installation of WP 4.9.8 under OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 on an old 24″ iMac.

    Yesterday evening, after three days of not posting anything on my blog, I was shocked to discover that the appearance of the “new post” page was very different. At first, I assumed that this was due to the new “Gutenberg” block editor. However, now I am not so certain.

    What is happening is that whether I click on “Add New” or “New–>Post”, the “new post” page is not fully loading in my web browser.

    More specifically, while there is a “Title” field where I can enter my post title, there is no text area below it where I can actually enter my content. Right below the “Title” field, there is “Permalink: ?preview=true”. No actual post URL shows, as it normally does after you type in the post title.

    Directly below that are the “Discussion” and “Comments” areas of the page.

    Neither is there an “Add Media” button or editor toolbar below the “title” field.

    Also, on the far right side, both the “Categories” and “Tags” sections are missing as well. It only shows the “Publish” and “Format” areas on top, and then the “Sharing” and “Featured Image” sections below that.

    Now what is truly strange about this, is the fact that if I go to edit a previously published post, all of the aforementioned areas are on the page where they should be. It appears that it is only on the New Post/Editor page where everything is missing. In fact, to verify this, I went to a few previous posts to edit them, and all of the edit pages appear just fine.

    Please note that I am not seeing any kind of on-screen errors, and the rest of my blog is fine. In other words, my blog home page looks fine. All previous posts look fine, and I am able to edit them with all page sections intact. My media library also looks fine. It is just the “new post” page where everything is weird.

    At first I thought the problem might possibly be related to your new “Gutenberg” block editor. So I found a web page called “How to Enable/Disable Gutenberg”. While the information on that page is a bit outdated, it did cause me to have another look at Settings –> Writing –> Writing Settings. In that section, there are two options:

    ? Replace the Gutenberg editor with the Classic editor.

    ? Use the Gutenberg editor by default and include optional links back to the Classic editor.

    BTW, I had previously installed the “Classic Editor” plugin. Regardless of which of the two options I choose, my “new post” page still remains the same with the missing areas.

    This problem occurs both on my iMac, as well as on my iPhone.

    Here is what I have done thus far to try to fix this:

    1. I deactivated and then reactivated the “Classic Editor” plugin. It didn’t help.

    2. I temporarily deactivated all 29 installed WP plugins. Even with that done, the “new post” page anomalies continue to occur, so it seems that something non-plugin-related is causing this problem.

    3. I manually re-installed 3.9.8 closely following the instructions on the WordPress website, as I have done on previous occasions. It didn’t help. The “new post” page is still messed up.

    4. On my web server, I used a tool to check all of my databases for errors. This included checking all of the wordpress tables. No errors were reported.

    If you want to see what the page looks like, please go here:

    https://www.billkochman.com/Images/BBBblog/wordpress-new-post-screen.png

    Any ideas? Please advise. Thanks so much!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Hi @wordweaver777,

    Have you tried to activate a different theme too? Maybe the theme that you’re using is editing the new post page and that’s why this is happening. I know you said that you deactivated all the plugins but maybe you should give the theme a try too. Just simply activate the TwentySeventeen theme and see if you still have this problem.

    Thread Starter Bill Kochman

    (@wordweaver777)

    Hello Radu. Thank you so much for responding. I’ve been feeling really desperate, frustrated and helpless here, due to this and other related technical problems.

    I followed your advice, but sadly, switching to Twenty Seventeen did not help at all. The very same problems with the missing areas continues.

    But that is not all.

    Over the past week, I have become so frustrated with using MAMP PRO, that during the past few hours, I have installed AMPPS, which is another web server stack package for Mac OS X, in case you are not aware of it.

    Anyway, once the new server was set up, I imported my WordPress database. Oh, I was so hopeful . . . but to no avail.

    Even though I am now using AMPPS, instead of MAMP PRO, the very same problems with the “New Post” page continue.

    But there is something else going on, which MAMP PRO was not showing me. Now, when I click on the “Add New” or “New –> Post”, I am getting a PHP error which has been reported here before, and which I have seen discussed on other websites as well. The error says the following:

    ******
    Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /Applications/AMPPS/www/Blog/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 642
    ******

    So I looked in the aforementioned file, and this is what it says at line 642:

    $post->post_content = apply_filters( ‘default_content’, $post_content, $post );

    Whether or not this warning is related to the missed areas on the page, I do not know. I am not a developer or a PHP expert by any means.

    Does this new information give you any more ideas regarding what is going on?

    BTW, other than having to adjust a lot of limit settings in PHP in order to import my huge WP database, there were no errors related to the actual database itself. So I really don’t know what to think.

    Any further assistance would be greatly appreciated. Are you WP staff by any chance?

    Thank you!

    Hi,

    Could you try to use this tool https://local.getflywheel.com/ to create a local install and see if you still have this issue? Just simply install Local by Flywheel and tell me if you can create a post without installing any other theme or plugin.

    Using this program, PHP 7.1 will be used. I checked a little over the internet and it seems that the version of PHP might be the reason why you see that warning too.

    Thread Starter Bill Kochman

    (@wordweaver777)

    Hello Radu. Actually, as I mention in another thread I started here, I already installed Local by Flywheel yesterday. I didn’t really care for it, so I uninstalled it.

    There have been a few people who have tried to help me with this, but thus far, there have been no solid answers or solutions. Thus, my blog has been down for six days now.

    If PHP was the problem, I would think that many thousands of people would be reporting the very same issue as me, since many of them probably use the same version of PHP as I do.

    Unless a solution presents itself soon, I may be forced to start my blog all over again. ??

    Hi,

    Quick question: do you have a second computer or maybe one of your friend’s computer to make a temporary installation of WordPress using AMPPS. This way, you can try to export and import all the content of your blog using the default option of WordPress (from Dashboard → Tools → Import / Export). I’m trying to keep everything simple, with no coding skills required. I mean, this is what I would try if I’d have the same problem as you ??

    Thread Starter Bill Kochman

    (@wordweaver777)

    Hello Radu,

    Actually, it is interesting that you should say that, because while I didn’t see your most recent post until just now, that is EXACTLY what I have been doing today. I am not completely done yet, and I have a few more settings to make with some of my plugins.

    Anyway, from everything I have experienced with this problem, and based on some online research, I came to the conclusion that something had become corrupted in my WP mySQL database, even though mySQL database tests did not reveal any problems.

    So, today I used the import/export feature, and I saved all of my posts, comments, categories, etc.

    After that, I started 4.9.8 from scratch, and I have been building it back together all day. I cautiously added my plugins one by one, each time, checking the “new post” page, to see if it was still working.

    Well, after installing twenty-two plugins, everything was still good, so I next imported all of my messages, etc., and everything is still working now, so I am quite relieved.

    The only problem was that the media was not properly imported, so I had to drag the main “uploads” folder from my old blog to the new blog.

    What a frustrating nightmare this has been, but at least it is working again, and I didn’t lose a few years of blog posts. ??

    Thanks for taking time to offer me some assistance. Much appreciated.

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