Hi,
Can you look at Apache error log to see what it says?
Did you need to downgrade to 2.6 or just to 3.0.1 from 3.0.2 released a few hours ago?
3.0.1 was only available at the time.
Had to go back to 2.6.
I think this was the error from the logs:
[error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in /wp-includes/class-wp-image-editor-imagick.php on line 257, referer: /wp-admin/edit.php?s=agenda+template&post_status=all&post_type=page&action=-1&m=0&paged=1&action2=-1
Hi,
it looks like the server wasn’t able to perform the cloning operation for the whole tree of parent post + child posts (+ attachments + comments? it depends on the settings).
If the posts have much content and many images, and if your machine (looks like you’re working on your own computer?) is not very powerful, the operation can take more that 30 seconds, which is the default limit.
You should increase the timeout, usually it’s done by setting the max_execution_time variable in php.ini.
Hope this helps!
Thank you, but I don’t see why this should be an issue, especially when it works well, quite quickly, on 2.6.
Possibly an issue with the efficiency of the code?
Hi,
sorry for the delay, I was out of town.
I think I understand the issue: you probably have “Copy attachments” activated.
In 2.6 the cloning of attachments was conceptually wrong: it copied the attachment but not the media file, so the media library could have many duplicates of the same media pointing to the same physical file. Deleting one of the media would delete the file for every other copy of the media.
Since 3.0, enabling the cloning of attachments means that the files are duplicated too: if they are images, even their various sizes are recreated. That takes time, if a post has several images attached.
In most cases, the option can be safely turned off. If images attached to the original post are shown in the text, they’ll still be there in the copy, since it’s a link to the URL(*): it’s just as if you inserted an image from an old post in a new one.
Also, if you don’t disable the cloning of the thumbnail image, the copy will still use it, just as you can use the same image as thumbnail for multiple posts.
So I suggest to uncheck the “Copy attachments” options and try again, that should work.
Hope this helps!
(*) Note that the URLs in text, even when the attachments are cloned, are not updated to point to the new files.
