WordPress 2.1.1 totally unable to post

1. There are many many thousands of sites that work fine with it. It is obviously a combination of your set up, your host and WP so your claim (and rather childish blog post) that WP is broken isn’t true.
2. WP is community software, developed by volunteers. There is no warranty that it will work 100% perfectly in every situation and if that doesn’t suit your needs then you shouldn’t use it – you haven’t paid for it and you haven’t contributed to it so the community doesn’t owe you anything. The support you get here comes from volunteers who help because they want to.
3. People generally don’t help people who are rude. By wrongly denouncing WP as unstable and unfit for purpose you are being rude to the people who created it and who you expect to help you.

kbug44 – is this a 2.1 install?

Yes, it is ?? The blog was installed two days ago via BlueHost and is 2.1.

As two wrongs don’t make a right, I apologized for being upset – which you perceived as rude.

Until www.ads-software.com puts up a page that fully explains “How to be the Best WordPress Host Imaginable” with clear and explicit steps on what that means, blaming the hosts is a bad idea as you have failed to put them in a position to succeed. It also enables these types of issues to escalate like the one we just had. I strongly encourage the creation of such a page.

Like I said, I’d gladly pay a few dollars a month for a stable install.

Let’s move on to the problem at hand please.

Upgrade to 2.1.1. There were some bug fixes.
Note – I have 2.1 running stable on 3 differing sites – one with 53 plugins activated for testing purposes. To say the software is broken or unstable is ridiculous.
This was a major upgrade and I don’t imagine 1% of the folks that upgraded did their homework on installing it – such as disabling all pugins before installing for example.
As the above post shows, no one reads the docs for the EXPLICIT 2.1 install instructions.
There is also a “sticky” in the installation forum that should be read.

@ dsquared – you have made your feelings known about 2.1. Drop the attitude or I will close this topic and any others you start. We get the message – you’re frustrated and we’ve all been there. Others seem to handle it better, however.

To everyone – stick to the subject!

samboll,

I am using 2.1.1

that is when this new problem started…. ??

Do you have the same problems with the wysiwyg editor disabled?
Trying to narrow it down.

Unchecking this box on the user >> your profile page – solves the problem on both browsers – it also disables viper’s video – but I’ll *gladly* take that tradeoff for the moment – I think you keyed in on the problem area very quickly – suggestions for permanent fix? Thanks for solving the immediate crisis, I appreciate it.

Personal Options
Use the visual editor when writing

Well now I think you may have a corrupted file in the TinyMCE.
Just for kicks, download a fresh 2.1.1 and upload the wp-includes folder and check again.

I must unfortunately report that after redownloading, deleting the wp-includes folder and uploading the new one fresh – that I get the same behavior when rechecking the box.

Also, wanted to remind you of the two plugin error_log’s (though I presently have them deactivated)

[23-Feb-2007 21:50:11] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: add_action() in /home/wp-content/plugins/wp-pda/pda.php on line 43

23-Feb-2007 21:14:12] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function: add_action() in /home/wp-content/plugins/wp-cache/wp-cache.php on line 630

these are the lines of code:
add_action(‘admin_menu’, ‘wp_cache_add_pages’);
?>

wp-pda
add_action(‘plugins_loaded’,array(&$this,’detectPDA’));

current plugin screen view…

Plugin Version Description Action
Add Meta Tags 1.0 Adds the Description and Keywords XHTML META tags to your blog’s front page and to each one of the posts, static pages and category archives. This operation is automatic, but the generated META tags can be fully customized. Please read the tips and all other info provided at the configuration panel. By George Notaras.
Deactivate

Akismet 2.0 Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. By Matt Mullenweg.
Deactivate Edit

Feedburner Feed Replacement 2.2 Forwards all feed traffic to Feedburner while letting through some important User-Agents. By Steve Smith.
Deactivate

podPress 7.4 The podPress pluggin gives you everything you need in one easy plugin to use WordPress for Podcasting. Set it up in ‘podPress’->Feed/iTunes Settings. If you this plugin works for you, send us a comment. By Dan Kuykendall (Seek3r).
Deactivate

Sociable 2.0 Automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites. Go to Options -> Sociable for setup. By Peter Harkins.
Deactivate

Trackback Validator 0.7.1 Eliminates spam trackbacks with surprising accuracy (see website for details). By Dan Sandler and Andres Thomas-Stivalet.
Deactivate Edit

Viper’s Video Quicktags 3.1.0 Creates quicktags for embedding various video types, including those hosted at YouTube and Google Video, into WordPress. Uses the ButtonSnap class by Owen Winkler. By Viper007Bond.
Deactivate Edit

WordPress PDA 1.0 This plugin helps the users to view your blog in a pda browser. By Imthiaz Rafiq.
Activate Edit

wp-cache 2.1 Very fast cache module. It’s composed of several modules, this plugin can configure and manage the whole system. Once enabled, go to “Options” and select “WP-Cache”. By Ricardo Galli Granada.
Activate Edit

I could be in error, but I believe the wp-cache plugin will probably interfere with WP’s caching in 2.1.x.
Not saying this is your problem as you say all plugins are deactivated, though.

point of information, wp-cache and wp-pda are deactivated – the rest are active

are you saying that all plugins needed to be deactivated when uploading the wp-includes? If so, I’ll do it again.