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I solved the issue. I had placed the unzipped upgrade 3.80 files in the wrong directory on my hard drive.

I looked in the wordpress/wp-content/uploads within My Computer Files section and the images aren’t being uploaded to the uploads file.

Under Media Settings

in the “Store uploads in this folder” was /srv/www/wp-uploads/localhost

I entered wp-content/uploads in the “Store uploads in this folder” text box and saved

I deleted https://localhost/wp-uploads from the text box below “Store uploads in this folder” and this solved the image upload problems.

Here is an online article that might help others

How to Fix the Unable to create directory Error in WordPress

https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-fix-the-unable-to-create-directory-error-in-wordpress-5264

I copied the wp-content into the wordpress folder.

I haven’t done much with the blog yet as I am testing it as a local host.

In the terminal I entered
chmod -v 766 /home/myusername/wordpress/wp-content

The result was

changed from 0700 (rwx——) to 0766 (rwxrw-rw-)

This chmod change didn’t allow me to upload images.

Any ideas???

I downloaded WordPress and am testing as a localhost in Ubuntu 12.04
I upgraded from the dowmloaded 3.6 to 3.8 version
In Files section of My Computer I browsed /home/username/wordpress
There isn’t a wp-content folder. I executed the upgrade from the link within Admin. I didn’t FTP as this is a local host WordPress setup. ??

I found the following from a search.

Title: Admin Panel not Loading Links, WordPress News, etc.

First, parts of the Admin Panel are not loading–Incoming Links, Stats, WordPress Development Blog, WordPress News. When I click on the links to these menu items, they work, they just don’t load on the Admin Panel. The exception is that Comments DO load in the Admin Panel. It was Posted 5 years ago There wasn’t a resolution to this post.

I upgraded to WordPress 3.8 from 3.71 In Admin the Incoming Links, Plugins, WordPress Development Blog, Other WordPress News indicates loading but hasn’t loaded and it has been an hour. I couldn’t find a solution from a search. Is this an issue that requires tweaking the configuration the wp-content.php file? Posted 2 weeks ago. Apparently nobody else has this issue.

I installed the Enhanced text widget on my wordpress test blog. It appears in the sidebar. I thought the widget was to allow the user to include HTML and javascript when posting within the Editor.

I have another WordPress 3.71 I am testing in VMware using WAMPSERVER and running the blog as local host. The blog doesn’t have a significant number of posts or comments. In Admin the Incoming Links, Plugins, WordPress Development Blog, Other WordPress News load immediately. Therefore does this mean the two live blogs have an issue with the server. Though the previous WordPress versions before I upgraded to 3.71 didn’t have liver server issues. Anybody have thoughts to resolve this issue?

I hadn’t entered any code because it wasn’t working. I did a search and others are having problems of moving the Text Widget – Arbitrary text or HTML in the Sidebar 1 section to the right. It didn’t display when clicking the down arrow. I will consider trying the enhanced text widget.

Several days ago, I upgraded two WordPress blogs to WordPress 3.71 and both upgraded blogs continue to have Incoming Links, Plugins, WordPress Development Blog, Other WordPress News indicating loading…

I only have to plugins Akismet and WP-ShortStat. I had done a fresh download and upgrade to version 3.71.

Oh well.

Have you been playing around with your Permalinks lately? Or added/changed/updated any plugins? Or edited your .htaccess file?

No.

Go to:
Admin > Settings > Permalinks
Switch to the default structure, then save changes.
Switch back to the previous structure. Save changes again.

What happens?

I had permalinks set to custom which had been working.

As you suggested, I switched to the default and saved.

Now the links work.