westonadam

Thanks, stephencottontail. Can I do it in the CSS Stylesheet editor or is that bad form?

Me too. I’m using Twenty Fifteen. The block quote looks silly.

Thanks, esmi. You’re great.

Peter, esmi kindly helped me fix my problem, which is similar to yours. It took only a few minutes, but it’s not for the non-technologically inclined. I’ll run you through what I did, briefly. But be forewarned: I broke my entire site for a few minutes. I was able to fix it, but if your livelihood requires your site, I’d drop the $30, say, to just have someone do it.

1) I used an FTP program to connect to my host.
2) There, with quite a bit of searching (the trick was knowing to display hidden files) I found wp-config.php.
3) I added a line to the bottom of the file using a plain text editor (not a typical text editor, like Word)
4) I then uploaded the file back onto my host, replacing the original file.
5) That broke my website.
6) I started again, fixed a missing semicolon, and solved the problem.

Much thanks to esmi, but seriously, my friend, it was nerve-wracking for me, and I know a little bit about what I’m doing and my job doesn’t depend on my site. I’m going to guess that you should hire someone (not me!) to do it for you. It’ll only take them 10 minutes. It can’t cost much.

Right. That seems to have fixed the small problem (breaking the internet) and the problem that brought me here (Add Media).

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

If you have time, could you explain, briefly, what I did? I’d like to know how you fixed what you fixed.

Thanks again.

Yep. I broke it. I cut and paste what you had written on a new line. Now I get this on my site (WestonWeb.ca)

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_REQUIRE_ONCE in /home/adamnorman/westonweb.ca/wp-config.php on line 37

Any idea what I did wrong? The last four lines of wp-config.php look like this:

// Get everything else
define(‘CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS’, false )
require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);
?>

Oh god. I hate doing this. I always feel like I run the risk of crashing the whole internet.

Forgive me, but wp-config.php does not appear as a file in Appearance–> Editor. Should I be looking somewhere else?

Also, yes, I am using the Twenty Eleven theme. No, I desperately do NOT want to do a manual reinstallation of all of WordPress.

I’ve also tried an automatic re-installation of 3.5. Still broken.

I’ve deactivated all plug-ins and using the 2011 theme, and my “Add Media” button is still broken. It does nothing 99% of the time–and, frustratingly, it works 1% of the time. I can’t figure out what the difference might be.

I’ve tried it on Firefox and on Chrome. Still nothing.

Adam.