READ THIS FIRST – WordPress 4.2 Master List

  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)


    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hooray! Powell is here! But OMGWTFBBQ!? WordPress 4.2 broke everything?

    Don’t Panic!

    Before you go any further, make sure you’ve updated to the latest point release (currently 4.2.2). Still having problems? Okay, read on!

    This thread contains the known issues with plugins and themes found in 4.2. Please read this WHOLE topic and come back and check again later, as it will be updated.

    Remember to be calm, be patient and be respectful. Volunteers are out here to try and help you, but we need your help too. All of the normal forum rules still apply. Remember, you are just as important as everyone else.

    If your post doesn’t show up right away, please be patient. With the higher than normal post volume, more posts get flagged as spam by our auto-spam tool. We’re working hard to keep the queue clear, but making multiple posts slows us down, as we have to go back and check if you already posted. Post once.

    • Do use proper capitalization in post titles and body. Punctuate your sentence properly and humanely, it helps us read.
    • Do use descriptive subject lines. “All permalinks broken since 4.2” is much better than “Augh! Help ASAP! This version is terrible!”
    • Do describe the problem clearly. Explain what you’re seeing, include error messages and link to screenshots if needed. Linking to your site, if the problem is on the front-end, also helps.
    • Do be patient. We know it sucks to be down, but posting multiple times doesn’t get you help any faster.
    • Do make your own topic unless you are using the exact same version of WordPress on the same physical server hosted by the same hosts with the same plugins, theme and configurations as the original poster. You may find it weird, but it will be easier for us to help you specifically if you have your own topic.
    • Do mark your topic as resolved when it’s fixed so we know not to come looking there anymore.
    • Do remember you’re not alone.

    Also keep in mind that not liking the direction of WordPress’s design does not a bug make. If you don’t like a feature, please don’t make a series of posts complaining about it. Look and see if someone already did, and post there, or consider joining the process earlier on (like in Beta or even test via SVN). What you’re seeing today is the result of thousands of hours of work and testing, and unless something is outright broken, it’s highly unlikely to be changed.

    Again, before you post:

    Make sure you’ve read the entire Master List post – and the New Features in 4.2 Codex Article – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Version_4.2

    Go to your own install’s about page – https://example.com/wp-admin/about.php – to see what’s new.

    And then make sure you’ve tried…

    • Flushing any caching plugins you might be running, as well as server and/or browser caches.
    • Deactivating all plugins (yes, all) to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s). If you can’t get into your admin dashboard, try resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin (read “How to deactivate all plugins when you can’t log in to wp-admin” if you need help). Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems. Also remember to deactivate any plugins in the mu-plugins folder. The easiest way is to rename that folder to mu-plugins-old
    • Switching to the Twenty Fifteen?theme to rule out any theme-specific problems. If you can’t log in to change themes, you can remove the theme folders via FTP so the only one is twentyfifteen. That will force your site to use it.
    • Manually upgrading. When all else fails, download a fresh copy of the latest.zip file of 4.2 (top right on this page) to your computer, and use that to copy up. You may need to delete the wp-admin and wp-includes folders on your server. Read the Manual Update directions first.
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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    CORE CHANGES

    What’s New:

    What’s Changed:

    • Press This has been completely revamped to make sharing content from around the web easier than ever.
    • Default Admin Color Scheme got cleaned up. The colors have been softened up. It’s not a massive change like MP6, just a slight visual one. You may not even notice.
    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    NOT A BUG

    My layout is all weird on the Dashboard

    Flush your cache. If you’re using server caches, or a plugin, flush them too, especially Memcached/APC stuff. They can be sticky.

    I’ve upgraded and the posts are not styled correctly

    Check if you are running mod_pagespeed and if you are try disabling it to see if your posts render correctly.

    The title attribute is missing from my ‘Insert Link’ button when I create posts/pages.

    This was specifically removed – read otto’s answer

    Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    KNOWN ISSUES

    Endless notice to update the database

    If your dashboard is stuck telling you that you have to upgrade your database (or that you don’t) over and over, see if you’re running a cache like Redis, Memcached, or APC. You may need to flush that.

    This particular issue is being discussed at https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/27669

    Database times out on update

    If the DB upgrade fails or times out, it’s like because the wp_posts table is very large. Try to clear out revisions and optimize the database.

    You can mitigate this risk by optimizing your database and removing revisions beforehand. Some plugins can help with this.

    Eg. https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/better-delete-revision/

    If you did not do that and you’re locked out of wp-admin, or simply want to directly run SQL lines, use the following –

    DELETE a,b,c FROM wp_posts a LEFT JOIN wp_term_relationships b ON (a.ID = b.object_id)
LEFT JOIN wp_postmeta c ON (a.ID = c.post_id) WHERE a.post_type = 'revision'

    Then run a DB optimize.

    Fatal Error with Cannot redeclare get_avatar url()

    This is generally caused by a theme that has not yet been updated to be compatible with WP4.2. You can either manually deactivate the theme by renaming it on the server (use FTP or another file manager to access your site files on the sever) to mytheme.HOLD – which should let you login again. Then check whether the theme has a recent update – if so, update the theme and that should fix the problem.

    Alternatively, you can temporarily fix the error without removing the theme by editing that file. If you look at the error log it will tell you which line contains the error and which file. First make a backup copy of the file in a safe place just in case editing the file goes wrong! Then on the real file, comment out the entire section (function) that is causing the error by placing /* in front of the statement and */ immediately following it. This will exclude it from being processed.

    Why this broke: This function was built into WordPress in 4.2, but was previously something that the theme author had to include. In 4.2 the exact same statement that you commented out is included in wp-includes/link-template.php.

    Site is Blank after Update

    If you were using Twenty Ten, Twenty Eleven, Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, or Twenty Fifteen as your theme, and you received WordPress 4.2 by a hosting provider’s auto-update system, you may need to manually install a new version of the theme.

    Why this broke: Some hosting providers were distributing corrupt themes with their WordPress 4.2 update packages. This does not affect anyone who has updated WordPress via the Dashboard, updated manually via FTP/SFTP, or via a WordPress-powered auto-update mechanism.

    I’m on MySQL 5.5.14 or higher, but my database character set did not update to utf8mb4.

    Follow this guide to manually update your database character set and collation.

    We’re still investigating this. It appears that the upgrade incorrectly required an instance of MySQLi. Please feel free to follow along at https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/32127

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