Problem 2.5.1 post_new.php and post.php

I can confirm that re-uploading the files fixed this problem for me. I had to do it a few times, trying different combinations of deleting and replacing more and more files until I just ended up doing a complete replacement of all the files.

Working now. Thanks to everyone who has helped in this thread, and good luck to those who still have the problem.

I used ian.tempest’s edit. I have updated all the code – I deleted it all, and then re-upped it. I cleared my cache, cookies, blew my nose… all to no avail.

If I take out the edit it restarts the problem. I also pegs my CPU usage since it’s a perpetual javascript loop.

In any case, it works without the autosave.

One thing that may be of use is to create a new directory and upload it there, configure it to point to the same db and see if it is working.

For me, I’m just an idiot who can’t read.

The problem was simple: I copied over the two folders (wp-content and wp-admin) but not the rest of the files.

I didn’t read carefully.

When I re-read and copied over the rest of the files, everything was fine. My flashing stopped.

Did an entire re-install excluding the database and the same thing is still happening unfortunately. ??

After the reinstall, did you go to the upgrade page to upgrade the database?

I did bring it up to 2.5.1 the last time I upgraded – but I tried it again on your advice and it gave me the ‘no upgrade required’ screen. So I assume all is well barring that problem.

Hi guys, I have the same problem, it is destroy the post, it keeps saving and destroy the layout, firstly I thought was a problem with browser and it happens in both IE or FF.
I even have a print screen of what is happening.
I was trying to post a picture, but in the middle of the process it just auto-saved and it appears the write post dialog and the website and the same time in a bad layout.
I already deleted and reinstalled wordpress, but it does not solve… Help!

Hi folks, I had solved my problem by re-uploading the files. I understand this doesn’t work for eveyone, and this may be something else to try:

Change your FTP program.

I was using Filezilla to upload the files at one point, and was having problems with my installation. After multiple deleting and re-uploading, I tried uploading with Dreamweaver (my only other FTP uploader.) It worked then.

I’m not sure why it would be different, I know Filezilla is a reputable program and I like it a lot. But for some reason it wasn’t completely uploading all the files or completing them.

I don’t know, just another idea for those still having problems.

First, thank you very much, this thread pretty much saved my sanity.

I’ve been suffering with this problem. Only thing that has helped was turning of Javascript when posting. Either a clean re-install with a fresh databse didn’t help, or something in my setting re-created the problem after installation.

For me the script doesn’t crash Firefox, just somehow causes the server to eat up all the memory and slow to a crawl with swapping.

Did a bit of hunting around and came back with this fix – It’s not my own but from ‘gabrielz’.

You have to add the following code:

if ( !defined( 'AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL' ) )
	define( 'AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 60 );

into admin.php, which resides in the wp-admin > includes folder.

Hope that’s of some use to somebody.

I’ve had extactly the same problem… and was ultimately starting to go crazy ??

but, I still gave it a try and deleted everything on the server (made a backup first, of course). I only left the wp-content folder on the server (I’ve got a lot of files in there and didn’t really want to re-upload everything). I still deleted the js-cache folder from wp-content/uploads.

Then I downloaded the most current WordPress 2.5.1 directly from the www.ads-software.com website, uploaded everything and set up wp-config.php from scratch. And now everything works fine again. Creating and managing posts works like a charm.

One thing I noticed while copy-pasting dbname, username etc from my old wp-config.php was the first line:
define('WP_CACHE', true); //Added by WP-Cache Manager

I remember playing around with WP-Cache but deleted it and forgot about it updating certain parts of my WP install. Perhaps my problems started with this?!

Thought I’d share this with you.

I dont think so, WP-Super Cache requires the same thing in order to function.

Recently my server has been under some far bigger load than normally – peaking at some 100K visitors a day. WP2.5 with wp_cache has handled it well, except that even without Javascript turned off writing or editing a post or a page will bring the server down. Under slighter load this hasn’t happened.

Makes me wonder if there is some deeper things wrong with the way 2.5.x handles writing to the database?

If you are having this issue you should look into the method we ultimately found. I have not seen the issue again since. All you should have to do is upload all of the new files to a new directory, copy your content directories (ignore the cache more than likely) and copy the config over, then rename the new directory.