Redcentaur

@wpmudev-support2

I’m afraid I can’t send you the details you requested as I’ve now removed Hummingbird from the site in question and won’t be reinstalling it.

As I mentioned in my original review, Hummingbird repeatedly prevented my site from accepting a valid username/password. Instead, the login process constantly suggested that the username/password was not recognised. It was on my third attempt that I remembered Hummingbird had been installed during the previous session and disabled it. Hey presto, WP allowed the login straightaway.

The WP installation is only a few days old so has relatively few pages, posts and plugins on it.

Hmm, this sounds similar to a problem I have been having. Upgraded to WP3.0.1 and get an Internal Server Error whenever I’m logged into WP-admin and click on the Posts tab.

All of my plugins were deactivated during the manual upgrade and were updated and activated one by one. Also, upgraded to the latest version of Thematic at the same time.

I have now tried changing to the default theme that comes with WP and found that the Internal Server Error disappears. Therefore, the problem seems to be with the theme I am using.

Your problem might be something similar. Usually, when you get an Internal Server Error and there is a plugin conflict or corrupt WP file, the problem arises immediately and in several areas at once (usually in wp-admin). Your problem doesn’t sound like this; sounds more like a theme problem…?

This is fairly simple to change. Go to wp-admin and find Appearance/Editor.

Click on the template for the posts page (usually index.php) and find ‘The Loop’ which will look something like this (an extract):

<?php if(have_posts()): ?><?php while(have_posts()): the_post(); ?> >
			<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
				<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
				<div class="entry">
					<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

…

The line you are looking for is <?php the_excerpt(); ?>, which you will need to change to <?php the_content(); ?>

That’s it. You should now see the full text of each post.

Regards

Glenn
Redcentaur

Unless your database has been deleted, your content should still be there, just not visible. I had this problem a couple of days ago. The most likely cause is your theme has crashed.

If you can get into the dashboard, try using the default theme. If you can’t access your dashboard, FTP to your site and move all but the Default folder out of wp-content/themes/ This will force the default to be used. Then try logging into your blog and see if your content is back.

Regards

Glenn

This could be an issue caused by a few things. If you are using a hosted server it could be that your PHP install does not have sufficient memory. You can up this by editing php.ini in your root to increase the memory. If you don’t see php.ini there, you can put one in your wp-admin area with the only line being:
memory=30MB

Regards

Glenn

Brandon

I have two suggestions:

1. do a manual reinstall of wordpress 2.8 by following the instructions here: https://www.blog.redcentaur.com/2009/upgrading-to-wordpress-2-8/

2. Add a memory increase code for your php installation (especially if you are using a hosted server). The instructions are at the same address.

Part of the post at the above link covers Error 500 Internal Server Errors.

Regards

Glenn

I have been having this problem. I believe (or is it hope) that I have now solved it.

Since upgrading to 2.8 yesterday evening, I have had Error 500 Internal Error messages as I move around in the wp-admin areas. Today I have deactivated and renamed all of the plugins in my wp-content/plugins/ folder (including index.php and hello.php), changing them all to .old

I then renamed each of them one-by-one and activated them in the plugins area of wp-admin until I found one in particular immediately recreated the problem. I then deactivated this plugin and checked the others, none of them caused the problem other than wp security scan 2.6.

I have now deleted this plugin (remorsefully) from my install until it has been updated for 2.8. If you are using this plugin, this may be the cause of the error.

Regards

Glenn
https://www.blog.redcentaur.com/2009/upgrading-to-wordpress-2-8/

Seowizz1 – I have just been through every single one of my plugins and tested repeatedly. As soon as I reactivated one of them the Error 500 Internal Server Error occurred immediately. The culprit was wp security scan.

On rechecking the download page, this plugin is compatible up to 2.7.1.

I’m hopeful that I can now get on with some blogging… ! With some luck, wp security scan will be updated soon so that it is compatible with the new version of WordPress.

There are a lot of us with this problem. On my install, it has got a lot worse today than it was last night.

Ditto for me. I have already posted to another problem with Error 500 Internal Server Error messages whenever moving around wp-admin. On this issue, I cannot activate the dropdowns by clicking on them.

There do seem to be a large number of problems with this latest version and I’m beginning to regret upgrading as this version is currently not workable. I may have to revert back to 2.7.1 until these bugs are fixed.

I upgraded yesterday evening. Since I got 2.8 installed on the second attempt, I have regularly had Error 500 Internal Server Error messages when I try to move around the wp-admin area, or log into it.

I followed the installation instructions (long method) to the letter when I installed, so it is not something that I have done wrong. It can’t be the server because I did not get this message until I installed 2.8. I have disabled and renamed all the plugins, to no avail.

I am aware that others have been having similar problems. Unfortunately, I don’t have a solution but hope to figure one out in the near future, or I’ll be forced to go back to 2.7.1 as the current install is unworkable.

I just upgraded to WordPress 2.8 from 2.7 also. When I got it installed I noticed both YARPP and Tweetmeme needed upgrading. I tried upgrading from WordPress and the update module hung indefinitely.

I then downloaded unpacked and uploaded both plugins. Tweetmeme installed fine. However, whenever I try to activate YARPP (3.0.6) I get an ‘ERROR 500 Internal Server Error’ message. It was not possible for me to activate 3.0.5 under 2.8, it wouldn’t let me do that either.