Dan Atrill

OK – going through my sites I haven’t had a problem where a site has upgraded and I’ve then enabled Classic editor.

One site that had been installed but not worked on I did an update from 4.9.8 to v5 and then went into the default post, made a change and clicked Update and got the same “Updating failed” message. The site has 4 WordPress themes that are up to date Twenty Fifteen to Twenty Nineteen and all plugins are disabled.

In Chrome Console I am getting script failures with a 500 error ie:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 () /wp-json/wp/v2/taxonomies?context=edit&_locale=user

I appreciate that ?? Is there any more information I can provide?

OK – there was an update overnight but that didn’t fix it either. I could go back and start from scratch but I’m concerned that if I did have content and the site was live I’d be in a difficult situation ??

Hi Mika, I don’t think there’s anything that sets a custom role. The only installed plugins are:

– Activity Log
– Akismet Anti-Spam
– Coming Soon Page & Maintenance Mode by SeedProd
– GEO my WP
– Google Tag Manager for WordPress
– Wordfence Security
– WordPress Beta Tester
– Yoast SEO

One thing though is this was installed in August via Softaculous if that makes any difference.

Hope that helps.

Hi Mika

Seems I do as once logged in I was able to do https://{domain}/?rest_route=/wp/v2/posts and got a list of posts as a response

Thanks for the link, I’ve done that now.

Hi – I could do but I can’t see which branch in GitHub to get started on adding a Pull . Request.

It worked for me by also ticking the box to say Posts under Post Types

Thanks @mrpritchett – thanks as approximate as I need for now.

Hi – I’ve seen mention of a new version of the plugin – do you have an approximate date please?

Hi @mrpritchett

The site was actually on an old version of WP (around 4.5) when it stopped working and we updated to the latest version in case that was the issue. We can’t roll back PHP though presumably it would be easier to check for deprecated functions?

Thanks

Dan

Thanks for the positive response. I understood BuddtDrive had worked in the past – would this be a PHP version issue? I know I will be asked what else we can do, so is there a workaround till a fix becomes available.

Dan

No problem. I just checked and I get the error in Buddy Drive both logged into the front end and via the Dashboard.

Hi

I could change my profile background OK, and upload files into Media without error. But clicking the “New File” button in Buddy Drive and selecting a file which was 70k in size, I get “File is empty. Please upload something more substantial. This error could also be caused by uploads being disabled in your php.ini or by post_max_size being defined as smaller than upload_max_filesize in php.ini.”

So in answer to the question, it appears to be only Buddy Drive which is throwing an error.

Hi @mrpritchett

Did you have any further thought on this please?

Thanks

Dan