WP 3.4 Broke the Admin Dashboard. Ideas?

  • I updated a couple of my sites to 3.4, only to realize that the update royally broke the dashboard. A few things work, but I cannot get it to function enough to finish s post.

    The main flyout menus on the left don’t pop out, meaning you can’t access anything inside them. You can only click the button and me taken to its’ default page.

    The post editing the wiziwig does not work properly. For example clicking the add link or add image button does nothing. Likewise for switching to HTML editing. Some button do work, like adding bullets, but I can’t get a post completed with it as too much is broken.

    The front end seems to load up fine, but I’m once again kicking myself for updating to the latest version so soon, as I can’t even finish my posts now.

    Interestingly the flyouts in the top overlay bar (the grey one that also shows on the front end if you’re logged in) does work. Not that that helps me post, but it seems it’s not simply a JS issue.

    I HAVE tried de-activating ALL plugins. No change. I have also tried activating to the latest version of the 2011 theme. No change. I have tried in Firefox 13, Safari and Chrome. All the same problem.

    Any ideas?

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  • Without a doubt, updating K2’s jQuery file (which actually has a php extension) will fix the admin AJAX issues. Just copy and paste the source of jQuery 1.7.x into this file and all will be well. I can’t supply the relative path b/c I’m on a phone, but it’s easy enough to track down if you search ‘jQuery’ within the theme folder.

    Thread Starter ventrilqstman

    (@ventrilqstman)

    Brilliant hifidesign. You nailed it. I found what seemed to be the right file called “jquery.js.php” inside “/themes/K2/js” It was populated with version 1.26 of JQuery.

    I copied in version 1.7 from here… https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.js. I pasted into the theme file using a text editor, leaving in the php head listed below (not sure if it’s needed or not.

    <?php require('gzip-header-js.php'); ?>

    The admin, flyouts, post creator and front end seem to be working fine now. I was a little concerned and the JQ from the site looked different than that in the orig L@ theme and seems a good deal longer. But everything seems to be working fine. I saved a copy of the old version just in case.

    I solved the problem i was having. It was a known issue with an older version of the “TPG Get Posts” plugin that i had chosen not to update because i knew it messed with the formatting of my site and i didn’t have time to fix it. Thanks.

    Thread Starter ventrilqstman

    (@ventrilqstman)

    On the KW issue. Things mostly work after the JQ update. But for some reason image uploader is still fragged. If I click the Add Media button the window pops up but the upload links don’t work and the drag and drop is not there.

    Even the HTML uploader link does nothing. If I activate a theme like 2011 it works fine so I’m again guessing it’s something in the K2 theme I’m using.

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