Unable to save after WP 5.0 upgrade

  • Total newbie here. Trying to assemble my first post on my Bluehost site.

    Editing an existing draft and keep getting ‘Updating failed’ line at top of session. Unable to auto-save or manually save both current and new post at this time since my WP 5.0 upgrade e-mail notice 11 hours ago.

    Something simple I can correct here?

    Tks, George

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  • Hi all,

    i’ve autoupdated to 5.3 and do not have any problems when saving. Using firefox debugging console helped me a lot.

    Regards.

    I’ve had the same issue. I didn’t even get an “editing failed” error, it would look like it worked but nothing would save. Editing existing posts also would appear to work but wouldn’t actually save any changes to the post.

    Installing and activating the Classic Editor plugin fixed the problem for me.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by brendanquinn.
    leromt

    (@leromt)

    For what it’s worth, I had this same problem this afternoon. I tried to save a post in a particular category and kept getting the “failed to save” banner. However, the changes I made to the post were in fact saved, even though I got that banner.

    The post in question was in a category named “blog-post.” When I tried to edit and save ANY post with that category name, it would barf and give me the error banner.

    I renamed the category from “blog-post” to “cjo-blog” and things went back to normal with no problems saving the posts. For those of you worried, renaming the category will NOT remove your posts/pages/etc from that category. The “name” of the category is mostly for pretty-fication. Your posts are actually saved with the category ID, NOT the name, and changing the name has no effect on the category ID.

    This problem arose once I updated from WP 4.9x to WP 5.1.

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