Troubleshooting WordPress 3.2 – Master List

NEW SERVER REQUIREMENTS

Be aware, WordPress 3.2 has new requirements:

• PHP version 5.2.4 or greater
• MySQL version 5.0 or greater

If you have not yet upgraded and want to make sure you’re okay, please use Ryan Duffís WordPress 3.2 Requirementís Check. Should your server not be ready, email your host:

I run WordPress <https://www.ads-software.com/&gt; on my website and would like to upgrade to the latest version when itís released. It has the following requirements:

PHP 5.2.4 or greater

MySQL 5.0 or greater

Please make sure that my PHP and MySQL are up-to-date.

This may be a hassle, depending on how savvy your host is, as there’s really no good way to go from SQL 4 to 5 (this is SQL’s ‘fault’). Both PHP 5 and SQL 5 have been out for years and are stable tech, so if your host WON’T upgrade, look for a new host.

Errors caused by PHP

If your THEME or PLUGIN has PHP 4 specific code, things will break. Known issues related to this change:

Missing class-json.php

From Dion Hulse

WordPress 3.2 required PHP 5.2.4 or later, class-json.php was included for compatibility with older versions of PHP only. It was removed here: https://core.trac.www.ads-software.com/changeset/17603

Unfortunately, Your theme will need to be updated, you may find that simply commenting out the include line will allow it to continue working if it was using the PHP json functions like any well built theme would have been.

Alternatively, Copy the json file into your themes folder, and modify the include line to reference the themes folder instead of WordPress’s.

Finally, if you’re having UX issues (where you can’t drag/drop widgets and similar), and you’ve already turned off all your plugins and changed to the default theme, you will need to go check if your PHP version has JSON installed. You may be able to add this on via cpanel, or you may have to ask your host to recompile it for you.

NEW ADMIN ISSUES

Why is WordPress telling me my broswer is outdated/insecure?

Because it is.

If you use a non-supported (or very old) browser like IE 6 or 7, or FireFox 3 or 4, WordPress will tell you, in your admin section, that this is out of date and you should upgrade. Yes, this is a nag screen. No, it’s not going away. Just upgrade if you can, or click dismiss if you cannot.

If you’re stuck on Windows 98, good news! Opera supported Windows 98 all the way up to 10.63 (released less than a year ago) and that can still be downloaded from https://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=windows&list=all

Where did the ‘create new post’ button go?

There are “Add New” links everywhere now, next to the screen title, but more importantly, WordPress’s direction is to utilize the Admin Bar for these extra links.

Where did my Network Admin Link Go!?

It’s a dropdown now. Click on ‘Howdy, YOURNAME’ and it’ll show up.

My site is set to private, but I don’t see that in the header anymore.

That’s been removed from the header bar when it was resized. Right now it’s only viewable from your site’s dashboard, in the ‘Right Now’ section.

I don’t like how the new admin section looks

The dashboard’s appearance has been redesigned with future versions of WordPress in mind. It can be customized via plugins or CSS.

See https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Creating_Admin_Themes

The Fullscreen button in the Visual editor is now missing!

To fix the problem:

1. Deactivate (and preferably remove) the old “WordPress Automatic Upgrade” plugin.
2. Go to the Dashboard->Updates option in the menu.
3. On this new page, select to Re-install WordPress 3.2.1. It’ll spin a minute and redownload WordPress and install it over itself properly, fixing any missing or broken files.
4. Clear your browser cache. Your browser will have a copy of the bad Javascript files in memory, and until you clear them out, it won’t try to load them from the site again.
5. Reload the editor page. The full screen button is between the spell check button and the “kitchen sink” button.

TWENTY ELEVEN ISSUES

If you don’t like Twenty Eleven, that’s okay, but that’s not a bug. Remember you don’t have to use it if you don’t want to. There are hundreds of FREE themes out there (including Twenty Ten!) in https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes – Enjoy!

There are already plugins that work well with customizing Twenty Eleven past the defaults. Check out https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/search.php?q=twenty+eleven

PLUGIN ISSUES

BuddyPress
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/buddypress/

BuddyPress 1.2.8 has a couple of small issues with WordPress 3.2, mainly with javascript in the BP-Default theme. New version released on July 5th resolves this.

Facebook Comments for WordPress
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/facebook-comments-for-wordpress/

Causes “Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.” on activation. Also seems to cause issues if left on when upgrading.

WP-Insert
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/wp-insert/

Causes all the side bars in the admin dashboard to vanish. New version released on July 5th resolves this.

Tweet This
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/tweet-this/

Causes a fatal error due to a dependency on the class-json.php file. See Missing class-json.php above.

To fix the plugin, edit the tweet-this.php file. On line 137, you’ll find this code:

/**
 * JSON functions.
 * @package tweet-this
 * @since 1.7
 */
if(!class_exists('Services_JSON')) {
	if(version_compare($GLOBALS['wp_version'], '2.9', '<'))
		require_once(TT_JSON);
	else require_once(TT_WP_JSON);}
if(!function_exists('json_encode')) {
	function json_encode($data) {
		$json = new Services_JSON();
		return($json->encode($data));}}
if(!function_exists('json_decode')) {
	function json_decode($data) {
		$json = new Services_JSON(SERVICES_JSON_LOOSE_TYPE);
		return($json->decode($data));}}

Simply remove that section of code entirely and save. Then all is well. That code is no longer necessary with PHP 5, which has the json functions built in.

Tweet Blender

Throws JSON errors. The plug-in developer has released a 3.2-compatible version (3.3.10) which fixes the issue: https://bit.ly/pvNPuA

Headspace2 SEO
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/headspace2/

Reported to cause menu toggling issues in the Dashboard.

Block-Spam-By-Math-Reloaded
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/block-spam-by-math-reloaded/

Reported to interfere with the site administrator’s ability to reply to comments.

List Rank Dashboard Widget
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/list-rank-dashboard-widget/

Fatal error: Call to undefined function register_setting() in /home/content/k/i/w/kiwivic/html/wp-content/plugins/list-rank-dashboard-widget/wp-list-rank-class.php on line 156.

JJ NextGen JQuery Slider
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/jj-nextgen-jquery-slider/

Slider no longer works: images only change on screen refresh, no nav displayed.

FeedWordPress
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/

Causes Fatal error: Call to undefined method WP_SimplePie_File::wp_simplepie_file() in /*/wp-content/plugins/feedwordpress/feedwordpress.php on line 1841

Fix from ricardofpraimundo:

Search line 1841
WP_SimplePie_File::WP_SimplePie_File($url, $timeout, $redirects, $headers, $useragent, $force_fsockopen);

replace with
parent::__construct($url, $timeout, $redirects, $headers, $useragent, $force_fsockopen);

Theme My Login
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/theme-my-login/

Locks users out of their sites.

Grooveshark Plugin for WordPress
Makes it so you can’t upload images.

Digi Traffic Multiplier
Yet another “left hand menu is missing” problem. The latest version of the plugin should resolve this.

jQuery Colorbox
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/jquery-colorbox/

You need to upgrade to the 4.1 version

jQuery.easein
Seems to conflict with the new jQuery in WP. No fix at this time.

Disqus Comment System
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/disqus-comment-system/

Breaks the jquery interfaces so you can’t add images to posts, drag widgets, etc.

THEME ISSUES

Arras Theme 1.5.0.1 kicks this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method Arras_Widget_Tag_Cloud::WP_Widget_Tag_Cloud() in ..../wp-content/themes/arras/library/widgets.php on line 355

Read https://www.arrastheme.com/forums/topic6442-15-arras-1501-and-wordpress-32-beta-1.html to fix or upgrade to 1.5.1

Koi Theme
Java issues kick user OUT of the post when trying to add a new link. Not all menu items show up in the editor

Developer says: “You just need to upgrade to the latest zip from our site and clear your browser cache (in case the scripts are cached).”

https://themify.me/themes/koi

Beauty & Clean 1.0.2 by Your Inspiration Web
Makes it so that you can’t upload any images.

yourmy: After updating 20 or 30 sites to 3.2, I found out that the submit article body has disappeared, at least in ff and ie – only the title is shown for authors. Please check. Thanks!

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function submit_button()

This sounds like not all the files were copied over correctly, I’d advice you attempt to perform a manual update as per the instructions in this codex article: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Updating_WordPress#Manual_Update – Replace/overwrite the existing files. If you still have access to the Dashboard -> Updates page, you might be able to use the “Reinstall” function there to correct it. If neither of these help, deactivate your plugins, as one of those may be causing the issue.

reh03jeene: please help me i have this message when i updated my wordpress site
Warning: require_once(/home/bleys987/public_html/wp-includes/class-json.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/bleys987/public_html/wp-content/plugins/tweet-this/tweet-this.php on line 145

The Tweet This plugin you’re running is not compatible with the latest version of WordPress. You’ll need to delete, or rename, the tweet-this plugin folder via FTP.

fxmatics: So, why don’t our generous WP developers did not warn us about it before we upgrade? ??

The announcement post mentioned it, and the Automatic update would’ve prevented you from updating if you did not meet the system requirements. Furthermore, If you managed to update, You would’ve been locked out of WordPress all together with a system requirements message, not a partially operating WordPress install, Your issue sounds like a Plugin issue overriding the default jQuery that wordPress includes, try disabling your plugins and try again.

To everyone else: Please make a new thread for your individual issue

IF YOU ARE HAVING JSON ISSUES!

The new 0.7 version of the hotfix plugin will fix the JSON error some
people are experiencing with 3.2 until they upgrade to 3.2.1. The hotfix plugin is just a good plugin for everybody to run, in fact.

https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/hotfix/

If the TinyMCE fullscreen button is missing, check to see if the site
is still using the pre-2.7 WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin.
Upgrading with that causes an incomplete (but oddly mostly working)
upgrade.

To fix the problem:

1. Deactivate (and preferably remove) that plugin.
2. Go to the Dashboard->Updates option in the menu.
3. On this new page, select to Re-install WordPress 3.2.1. It’ll spin
a minute and redownload WordPress and install it over itself properly,
fixing any missing or broken files.
4. Clear your browser cache. Your browser will have a copy of the bad
Javascript files in memory, and until you clear them out, it won’t try
to load them from the site again.
5. Done. The full screen button is between the spell check button and
the “kitchen sink” button.