Serious Problem with posts in WordPress 2.5

  • There appears to be a major problem when publishing a new post with V2.5. After upgrading I can no longer publish a post. Every time I publish one it just results in the following error message returned “Your attempt to edit this post: “The Post” has failed. I have never seen this problem before until upgrading. The failed post is copied to the draft section and if I go to the draft and publish it from there it works. I wished I could go back to 2.3 since it always worked, but I know that isn’t possible now. Has anyone else seen this problem and is there something I can do to resolve it on my end.

    One thing I did do is use Word 2007 to post the blog and it failed too. I’ve use it before and it worked with earlier versions. Could this of screwed something up with 2.5 so that now you can’t even publish within the WordPress editor or maybe its some kind of security problem? Like I said above once it fails it makes a draft copy and you can publish from there which is a pain. There is something wrong and I need to fix it, so could someone pleasssssssssse help me.

    Thanks…

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  • It works again!
    I haven’t tried AnttiJN’s tool (see above), but I did find the two plugins Jimmie65 referred to (also above). And it worked for me, I can save again and I can publish again. I don’t know how it works, but forgive me, for now I don’t care. (Just too bad I do get the ugly default URLs now, but hey, at least there are new ones to be created of those.)

    How I did it
    To deactivate the Customisable permalinks, go to Settings, Permalinks. There, select Default and Save Changes. At first it didn’t save and I got a blank page but after a few tries it did take the change. You’ll see the message on the same page that says so.

    Then to deactivate the database plugin, that is easier still. Go to Plugins and find the WordPress Database Backup one. Deactivate it by clicking on Deactivate. Or you may simply deactivate all your plugins in one go with the relevant button there.

    Now you too can save and publish again. This fix I hope is just temporary, because I do prefer the custom URLs and at some point, I will want to back up the database again. Thanks.

    I’ve got a little problem with the “insert/edit image” button, when you click that icon the pop up appear but it’s white, without the fields to insert the URL. That’s happend in Firefox 2.0.0.14 But in IE6 is all ok!
    Insted, when you use the “Add an image” button, a new pop up window appears with the fields to put an URL but when you click the button “insert into post” nothing happens.
    Bye Manolo
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    Had the flashing button, super slow unusable edit page issue – the answer for me at least seems to be that I had missed updating the settings file in the root directory when manually upgrading from 2.5 to 2.51 – specifically the newest wp-settings.php file (4/21/08) includes the following on line 335 that is missing in earlier versions
    the newest files include this code at lines 335-342

    /**
 * It is possible to define this in wp-config.php
 * @since 2.5.0
 */
if ( !defined( 'AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL' ) )
	define( 'AUTOSAVE_INTERVAL', 60 );

    I suspect this to be the cause of the whacked out javascript loop that killed my browsers.
    Comparing files from the broken blog with a new install on both the same host and another hosting company that doesn’t use fantastico but offers one click install it became apparent that the files were different, so even if you replaced it as part of your upgrade getting the newest version from a 2.5.1 download post april may be the answer.

    Before this I also tried the following to fix this issue with no success:

    – Deleted the files in wp-content/uploads/js_cache?- Set the WPLANG define in wp-config.php to ‘en’

    ?- Cleared all the caches on browser
    – Updated Tiny MCE using the following

    √1. Download the latest version of TinyMCE from the offical site:?https://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tinymce/tinymce_3_0_6_1.zip?download
    √2. Unzip the following files into wp-includes/js/tinymce:?- tinymce\jscripts\tiny_mce\tiny_mce.js?- tinymce\jscripts\tiny_mce\tiny_mce_popup.js?- tinymce\jscripts\tiny_mce\tiny_mce_src.js
    √3. Delete the files in wp-content/uploads/js_cache. √Clear all the caches on browser, √manually reload this URL on your blog: /wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_config.php to verify

    Also removed all dev and live blog cookies before restarting browser
    Again removed new files from wp-content/uploads/js_cache

    Downloaded and installed tinymce-advanced plug in – turned it on, repeated all cache clearing, turned it off cleared caches etc. no love

    So reading this post at https://trac.www.ads-software.com/ticket/6844 led me to suspect that my upgrade had not been as thorough as i thought it had. Like in this post my browsers were telling me they were stuck in a continual loop looking for admin-ajax.php and the new settings file with the interval definition in it seems to have ended that issue which allows for speedy typing and easy posting.

    I am still waiting to hear whether any other authors on this blog are still having issues but i think this is the fix and hope it helps someone.

    does somebody have a clear answer to solve this problem?
    I’m having lots of problems with this with some plugins, when i activate these, i get the message that my attempt to edit the post failed.
    I can’t really find a solution for this problem, have you already solved this?
    thanks.

    ‘just upgraded and had the same problem. Still having minor problems but AnttiJN’s trick worked for me:
    1. If I disable the autosave function saving works. I did this simply by escaping the “wp_enqueue_script(‘autosave’);” line from post-new.php.
    Did the same thing in page-new.php as well.

    same probleme here, so i also disabled the autosave functions in post-new.php and page-new.php. it works!

    I have a similar but worse problem. Since upgrading, none of my old posts display on the Blog, None of the Pages are displayed.

    All I have is the sidebars and the header – the footer does not display either. Although, when I remove the code to display posts within the Index.php, the Footer is displayed.

    Please see full details here with the code I’m using.

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/186819?replies=1

    PS has anyone tried uninstalling wordpress, then Installing the new version from the beginning?

    I just realised! It’s no use uninstalling because then we would lose all the data in the database. Sorry.

    It’s another bug / feature in wordpress: upgrades aren’t handled very well, there is no real mechanism similar to install to do an upgrade directly.

    When you upgrade, what you should do it delete pretty much everything except your themes, plugins, and any files like htaccess and data files you may have created, and your wp-congig.php… then upload the new version.

    Files or functions get dropped over time (often without notice) but they may still be included or used by plugins and similar, which can cause problems.

    I had the same problem. I followed AnttiJN’s solution and it worked. One of my plugins was the problem. It was TimesURL.at Sociable Plugin.

    The problem appeared again. I disabled autosave in wp-admin/post-new.php by commenting it out:

    //wp_enqueue_script('autosave');

    And the problem was solved! I do not get the error message now.

    Got this problem since i upgraded to wp 2.7. still no solution? I dont feel like editing manually in core files cause that will require me to do so on every upgrade….

    I had the same problem. The solution seemed to be a “fix” that solves 90% of all wordpress problems I encounter: make sure the wp-config.php is encoded and formatted correctly (my hosting environment is Centos5):

    1. Encoding: UTF-8, Lineendigs: Windows (CR+LF)
    2. Formatting: no unnecessary empty lines in the file (this fixed the posting problem for me)

    A good Windows tool for these changes is the free Notepad2.

    Hope this helps anyone.
    Cheers,
    Richard

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