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 default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems?
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reyach
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Hi thanks for your help.. Deactivated plugins, switchback to original default them, yet same Fatal error: Only variables can be passed by reference in c:\wamp\www\wordpress\wp-admin\includes\post.php on line 379
Do you think a PHP config file needs tweaking?
Thanks again,
No – I think that’s unlikely. Try:
– 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
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reyach
(@reyach)
Hi – Active_plugins is set to the value suggested. Renamed plugins folder and created an empty plugins folder – still error message.
I have not tried to freshly install wp-content folders as I am working on a local server and its easy to see the files are identical.
Just to mention the error message appears in a new window when I click on ‘add post’ What folder/file(s) is ‘add post’ calling to?
Thanks again for your help.
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reyach
(@reyach)
Hi – Active_plugins is set to the value suggested. Renamed plugins folder and created an empty plugins folder. I have freshly install wp-includes folders – I am working on a local server so no FTP.
Error message still there. Looking at the post.php need a script editor to find out what’s on line 379?
Any other suggestions. Thanks again for your help.
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reyach
(@reyach)
Sorry for the treble posting !!
I have found with post.php this at line 379
$post = get_post( wp_insert_post( array( ‘post_title’ => __( ‘Auto Draft’ ), ‘post_type’ => $post_type, ‘post_status’ => ‘auto-draft’ ) ) );
Is there anything odd about this call?
As wordpress3 is fairly new, perhaps we can compare it again an earlier post.php file. I don’t know clutching at straws here! 🙂 Thank you!
Maybe try a Google search? I seem to remember a similar issue, which was resolved by finding and deleting all whitespaces after the closing ?> php tag, in all your WP files (including plugins). There was a plugin that actually performed this chore, and it found numerous instances in the official WP php code where spaces existed after the closing tag. Maybe it’s that?
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reyach
(@reyach)
thanks Blago 🙂 any links to where i might find this plugin??
Seems like this is a PHP issue: I’m using PHP 5.0.5 and had this error also.
I changed the code at line 379 to the following and it worked:
$post = get_post(( wp_insert_post( array( 'post_title' => __( 'Auto Draft' ), 'post_type' => $post_type, 'post_status' => 'auto-draft' ) ) ));
You’ll notice the only difference is a set of double parenthesis inside the get_post method call.
