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Fixed! You deserve better than a 5 out of 5 for the lightning-fast response. Thank you!

Looking forward to it. Thank you!

Same problem here. This has been going on for several days at least.

Thanks for your quick response. I found that site but, as you said, all of its links are dead. And the plugin’s author doesn’t respond to my inquiry.

I guess I have to agree that it’s time to find something else. It’s really unfortunate, because that was once one of the best plugins available.

Thanks, but, if you read my explanation you would know that I already tried all of those things. That’s why I asked for help. What else might be a solution to the problem?

I still get the following when I try to add a new page:

Warning: Creating default object from empty value in /homepages/4/d514737706/htdocs/IASE/WordPress/wp-admin/includes/post.php on line 742

I just tried “reinstalling” again, and there’s still no change.

Any other ideas?

Hi Hari:

Thank you for the quick response.

Unfortunately, what you suggest is exactly what I did when I “reinstalled” WordPress. The problem still exists.

FYI, “Vista Buttons” isn’t a plugin; it’s an independent HTML-generator program that I’ve used for years to make website menus. I would very much like to see those capabilities incorporated into MaxButtons. Thanks for listening!!

I’m sorry. I thought maybe if I adopted what you consider to be a more civil attitude and reworded my question so that it might be a little clearer, I might finally get some help. All I want to know is what that message means. By itself, it tells me absolutely nothing, and I have no clue. Is there some documentation somewhere that will tell me? Or am I going to have to dig into the WP code itself to find out why WP asks me that?

No, it absolutely has not been answered — ever, not just this time.

All I was told is that you weren’t interested in answering it, and I should go elsewhere. Perhaps you consider that “polite”, but I do not.

I do understand how things are supposed to work on this forum, and I see many instances when responses to other questions have been sincere, polite, and helpful. In fact, I have genuinely and gratefully been helped in the past. Your answers to this question, unfortunately, have not helped, and I do not understand why you keep responding when you have no intention of trying.

You’re about to get your wish. I’m going away completely frustrated. I absolutely cannot mark the topic as “resolved” because it is not.

I didn’t say the error is meaningless; I said the message is meaningless because it tells me nothing about what the error is. As long as you refuse to understand what I’m asking, and unexplainedly claim that the message doesn’t come from WP, any attempt at securing help from this forum is a waste of time — not because the question I’m asking isn’t appropriate, but because it’s apparently not within your field of interest, or knowledge. I agree with you that we’re both wasting our time here — me because no one will attempt to answer my question, and you because you don’t understand the question but keep giving me useless comments anyway. This topic may as well be closed because I’m clearly not going to get any help from this forum. Rather than chiding me, perhaps you yourself should review what the word “help” means.

Since the message is generated when themes from several different vendors are tested, it’s clear that the message comes from WordPress. Note — I didn’t say WP caused the error, I said it must have found something it didn’t like about the theme and then presented me with a completely meaningless error message based on that. How can I even begin to report the problem to any theme vendor when the message tells me nothing about what I should report to them? Why is it so hard for WP programmers to let me know what the problem is, rather than giving me a smart-a$$ meaningless error message? They obviously must think I’m trying to get away with something, or perhaps they think the theme writer is, but I have no idea what it is because everyone who’s knowledgeable seems to think such an answer is beneath them. This whole experience is really disappointing and frustrating…

Obviously you have no interest in answering my question. I never asked for support of any theme, commercial or otherwise. All I want to know is why WP would present me with such a snarky and useless error message, rather than tell me what the problem is. Is that really too much to ask?

I guess what I’m really asking is, if it truly is a problem caused by many theme (or plug-in) writers incorrectly coding things that now shows up because WP developers suddenly decided to implement some new standard, or to enforce some old standard that wasn’t enforced in the past, why is it so hard for the WP developers to tell us what it is that’s being done wrong so that we might be able to fix it? Why is it such a secret?