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Strange, I tried it again this morning with the same inputs and it worked.

Thanks for your suggestions.

Ugh, thanks for the heads up Esmi. I’m in the process of re-uploading my wp-includes folder, I didn’t realize what you meant at first by a fresh upload.
The first thing I tried to do to solve this problem was upgrade wordpress, but it wouldn’t let me because my host doesn’t yet have the right mysql version.
I’ll start working through the fixes on the pages you linked to.

Esmi,

I used ftp to download the wp-includes folder, deleted same folder from the server, then re-uploaded it from my hard drive. Is that what you meant? Unfortunately it didn’t change anything. And I’m still unable to access my admin panel.

Sijo55,

If I found it, I wouldn’t know which part of the code was wrong!

I did try changing themes, but that didn’t solve it.

I did use ftp to move the plugins to another folder, created a new empty plugin folder. Didn’t work either.

Strangely, now I can’t access my admin page at all anymore, it shows only the strange code and nothing else.

Puzzling.

Strange I replied to this earlier, didn’t get posted. Anyway, I gave up and downgraded to wordpress 2.9.2. Can’t waste anymore time on the problem. I’m going to hold out in future on upgrading until the new versions aren’t new anymore. Thanks for your suggestions though.

Well, I went ahead and clicked on upgrade and everything’s working fine now, it didn’t return me to 3.0 as I had feared. I have a workable 2.9.2 version again.

Wasted about a day troubleshooting 3.0 to no avail. Just wish new versions weren’t released before more of the bugs are fixed.

Michael,

I followed your instructions (steps 7 and 8) to downgrade from 3.0 to 2.9.2. When I access any part of my blog admin now it prompts me to upgrade the wordpress database, which I assume I don’t want to do since I’ve deliberately downgraded. But there’s no cancel option or “no” option on this screen, and I can’t access any part of my admin without seeing this screen.

Will upgrading the database effectively return me to 3.0? I downgraded from 3.0 because I was having problems I could not solve.

Thanks.

Well I found a few more details but still no solution.

I tried creating a new post and then publishing it, rather than hitting preview or save draft. Publishing does work. This is a workaround, as I can edit the published post further and then republish it, and prevent it from being mailed to subscribers before it’s polished. Not a great solution though. (After I finished an article today, I pasted it in to a new post and hit publish, so that it would be mailed to subscribers with the subscribe2 plugin (reactivated since it didn’t seem that any of the plugins were causing the problem) — this did not work, inexplicably, but I can’t say that this is related to the main problem).

And, strangely, I noticed one test draft I created yesterday appeared in my list of drafts today. I created multiple test drafts yesterday as I was troubleshooting, and hadn’t noticed this one appear as a draft, but there it was today. Tried to save a new draft to see if the functionality had returned and, no dice.

Also, interestingly, I can successfully preview existing posts and existing drafts, and the pages they point to have different formats than the pages pointed to when I try to preview a new post.

I get this kind of url when I preview an existing post or draft:

https://politicalrelief.com/blog/?p=588&preview=true

and this when I try to preview a new post:

https://politicalrelief.com/blog/?p=871&preview=true&preview_id=871&preview_nonce=46e8fe47d9

It’s this last kind of url that leads to a page saying “comments are closed” rather than a preview of a new post. Deleting the part after the word “true” does not fix it, and I don’t know what creates this extra text.

Good thought. I tried 2 other browsers, as well as an entirely different computer, and the results are identical. In case it was a java issue, I updated the version of java (oddly, it hadn’t been updated for 6 months even though it’s scheduled to update each month). But that didn’t solve it either.

I did disable all plugins. And just to be sure, I renamed the plugins folder and created a new, empty plugins folder. Problem persists. Spent a couple hours today on this problem, got nowhere.

I’ve reinstalled wordpress 3.0, and downloaded it separately and re-uploaded the wp-includes folder, which someone else suggested. I also switched to the default theme temporarily to remove that as a factor. All along I’ve been clearing the cache and trying again. I’d consider downgrading back to 2.x, but it’s been a long time since I backed up my sql database, I’ve been backing up the blog all along but didn’t realize I needed to backup that database too, so I’m hesitant to revert too far back.

I haven’t checked the error logs, where would I find them?

One other thing I’ve noticed since upgrading to 3.0 which may or may not be related — the updates section is notifying me that the theme “Pool” has an update available, and tells me I have version 1.0.7 installed which can be updated, but I’m not using that theme. Weird, but may not be relevant.

Thanks for your help so far. Btw, I’m still getting a 404 message accessing your link above.

No, I don’t have that plugin. I only have a few plugins, and all were already upgraded. I deactivated all of them and still got the same problem. (I tried your link too and got a 404, by the way.)

Yes! I tried all those things sequentially. What worked was when I disabled the plugins by renaming the plugin folder via FTP. That allowed me to log in. Then I reactivated the plugins and all is well. I don’t know why that happened, I haven’t added any plugins for weeks.

Strangely, I couldn’t log in to WordPress – again (even with my new account) to write this reply. Resetting the password, though, did work.

Thanks.

P.S. It’s v 2.7 I’m using not 2.6.