I recently updated my WordPress site http://www.yourwhiteknight.com/ to 4.1.5 and found that I can't move or open any widgets on the widgets page. If I try to add one, I don't get the menu to add it to a widget and I can't drag and drop on into a sidebar. I can't click the down arrow on any widgets or on any sidebars that are not open in order to edit their contents.
I believe the version I was working with before was 3.5.2. I even tried to go to the customizer but it just gets stuck constantly trying to reload the page, some sort of redirect loop.
Has anyone had this problem before and can point me in the direction of a solution?
I am at a complete loss, other than uploading the older version of wordpress. If I do that, I don't know if the database will still work due to any changes in the DB from the upgrade. I can't revert to the old database because the client has already made a lot of changes.
What you need to do is look for Javascript errors in the WordPress admin area using Dev Tools. The inability to move widgets or use other javascript functions in admin is common and a characteristic of Javascript conflicts with plugins or low-quality themes and the Javascript libraries that WordPress loads be default.
Use the developer tools in Firefox (or Firebug) or Chrome or Safari or IE to see what scripts are loading on your site - I can see from my end that there are a lot of them - and look in the console to see if there are errors. See Using Your Browser to Diagnose JavaScript Errors.
If there are errors, deactivate plugins one by one and look for a theme update. It can take some time to find the cause of Javascript errors, and in some cases, you may need to debug yourself.
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I love to do some "on the go" coding in the wordpress backend in my spare time.
The situation:
When editing theme or plugin files in the theme editor or plugin editor on my mobile device (android), whenever I try to type on a new line in the file, the character gets automatically "backspaced".
The editor does work when editing existing lines of code, or copy and pasting it in.
When using a bluetooth keyboard the editor works fine too.
There doesn't seem to be any jquery related errors either.
Does anyone know the root of this problem?
I would advise you to report this as a bug, WordPress is open source. Bugs will be handled by priority by many volunteers.
You can read more about submitting a bug and what you need to yourself when submitting one.
See: https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/testing/reporting-bugs/
Make sure to read the page thoroughly before submitting a "bug".
Cheers,
My responsive website just shows the word Menu for the navigation on mobile. When you click it's supposed to show the primary navigation, and it did for years. I just noticed it does not work anymore and I'm not familiar with responsive code.
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based on Twenty Eleven Theme
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Thank you for any assistance or point in the right direction!
This is usually done via Javascript. Disable the minification, compression/optiomization plugins you’re using. They may be breaking the javascript used to manage that menu.
This may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to disable all plugins. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of your troubles.
If you can install plugins, install “Health Check” (https://wordpress.org/plugins/health-check). On the troubleshooting tab, you can click the button to disable all plugins and change the theme for you, while you’re still logged in, without affecting normal visitors to your site. This may be a faster option. Let me know how things go and I will try to help further if required.
GoDaddy Fixed it!
site had a mixed content issue, where resources were being pulled both from HTTP and HTTPS sources. I have installed and activated the plugin Really Simple SSL. This resolved the mixed content issue, and also the mobile menu issue.
We use a plugin that creates a content type and dynamically generates pages for that type. It works fine except that when when we upgrade plugins (especially The Event Calendar, which also creates a content type, but doesn't experience this problem), this sometimes (but not reliably) causes all of the page URLs generated by the plugin to stop existing. When you go to those URLs, you get a 404 error.
This problem can be fixed by going to the site's permalinks page and (without making any changes) saving the settings.
I looked for a solution that would prevent the problem from happening, but have not been able to find one. I wasn't able to figure out a way to mimic what happens when you save the permalinks settings for each site, and I haven't been able to figure out what might be triggering the problem. I currently "solve" the problem by using a Selenium script to go through each permalinks page in our multisite and click the save button on each automatically after I update plugins.
How can I:
Track down the source of the problem.
Set up a content type that will not unset itself in the wrong circumstances.
Failing either of those things, implement a backend solution that will do what I am currently doing on the frontend, but in a fully automatic way.
I recently migrated a site over using backup guard plugin
Click here to see what is supposed to look like.
Click here to see where i migrated it to.
The css doesn't look like it's loading on the live site (nbch.net.au) but it does show when i preview from the backend.
Anyone point me in the right direction, Im using the Divi theme which is all up to date
please let me know if anymore info is needed
Thanks in advance
Seemed like it was setting within divi that was causing the problem
press CLEAR from Static CSS File Generation from the Builder options and check after that.
If the issue is still present, DISABLE it and clear the browser's cache after that or check from Chrome Incognito mode or New Private Window from Mozilla Firefox.
My site is running with the last version of Wordpress and 15zine as a theme.
Sometimes when I surf through the pages Wordpress doesn't load the CSS correctly so I can see only the simple HTML page without the right formatting.
I've found out that these kinds of problems are usually caused by bad use of minimization and merging of cache plugins.
I would suggest to first disable both and start enabling only the minification. If it correctly works, I would go ahead with merging. With HTTP/2 merging is less needed
I have checked your website multiple times and while some of the css (file: 822cc.css) does take a while to load, it does in fact load every time.
The issue may be on your side. Maybe open developers tools go to settings, under network click "Disable cache" and then reload the site a couple of times and see if the problem still exists.
Remember to keep developer tools open when doing this. You can even click the Network tab and then select the CSS button, hit f5 and see the files loading.