Have you tried:
– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
– switching to the Twenty Ten theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
Have you tried:
– deactivating all plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
– switching to the Twenty Ten theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
– resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.
– re-uploading the wp-admin and wp-includes folders from a fresh download of WordPress.
I have now done all the things [both of] you suggested, to no effect.
What’s strange (to me) is that the two hyperlink buttons are the only ones that don’t work. I constructed a draft post that used all the other buttons, and they worked as expected.
I’m hosted at 1and1.com, and this is the only problem I know about.
Actually there was one effect: dates for three posts earlier today no longer display.
I can still see them from Dashboard->Posts->Quick Edit, but they don’t display.
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My bad.
I didn’t realize that I needed to have text already highlighted to make the hyperlink buttons active.
Now — how can I get my dates back for the three 22 June posts?
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Go to the upper right corner in the posts window, screen options, and check dates.
Thank you for your suggestion.
It was already checked. I unchecked it, checked it again, and clicked “Apply”.
Still no good.
I’ve since noticed that the latest post on each day has the date — earlier posts on the same day do not.
I’ve tried changing the theme, refreshing the page, then changing the theme back. That doesn’t work either.
This was working properly until last night, when I followed the suggestions to troubleshoot the hyperlink buttons (that I didn’t realize were probably working all along).
I’ve since noticed that the latest post on each day has the date — earlier posts on the same day do not.
It might have helped if you’d mentioned that you were referring to the front end display and not the Post page in the back end. It sounds like your chosen theme is using <?php the_date():?> as opposed to <?php the_time();?>. When multiple post are published on the same day, only the most recent one has a date.
If you want to change this behaviour, you will need to edit your theme’s template files and replace <?php the_date():?> with <?php the_time();?>.
esmi,
I’ll check this.
It might have helped if you’d mentioned that you were referring to the front end display and not the Post page in the back end.
I did, I just used different words.
— Later —
I’m using the Constructor theme. It looks like the behavior we’re discussing is governed by line 24 in themes/constructor/layouts/default.php. When I change “the_date” to “the_time”, the time (and only the time) is diplayed for each post. When I change “the_time” back to “the_date”, the date shows only for the latest post of the day.
Thank you for suggesting I check this; I’m slowly learning about this stuff.
The big question for me right now is this:
I followed your earlier suggestions exactly, then I moved the held wp-admin and wp-includes folders back to their original names. I moved the held wp-content/plugins folder back to its original name, but didn’t change anything at all in the the themes directory.
I was already using WP 3.1.3 (I installed it as soon as it was final) so last night’s fresh download should not have changed anything.
Given those things, how should deactivating and re-activating the plugins, and moving and restoring the wp-admin and wp-includes folders change the behavior for displaying dates?
Because your original question was:
In the visual editor, the two hyperlink buttons are greyed out and inoperative. All the other buttons work.
And we work by targeting the most obvious culprits first.
