Lost editing functionality

  • christaplin

    (@christaplin)


    5 years, 7 months ago

    Hi all

    I have a WordPress multi-site installation. I have lost the ability to edit the site since the latest update. I’ve tried installing Heath check and run it in safe mode but the drop-down boxes to choose which plugins to enable or themes to select won’t work.

    I’ve switched off the classic editor and just get a white page when trying to edit a page in blocks. Switching back to classic editor brings the page up and you can edit in text view only but have lost the quick tool bar and can’t click to Visual Builder.

    The arrows within the Widget area won’t work to edit that either so also lost the editing of widgets.

    I’ve tried to install a new theme via Appearance menu, but no themes are showing.

    I’ve disabled Litespeed cache and got it working but only if I use an Incognito window to look at the dashboard so making me think its a caching issue.

    Has anyone else experienced the same issues?

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  • Joy

    (@joyously)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    Some of these symptoms sound like Javascript that isn’t running. The thing with scripts is that if one fails, all execution stops (even core scripts with no bugs).
    WP 5.5 removed the jquery-migrate script as part of the process of updating to the newer version of jQuery. If any of your theme or plugins use the outdated functions that the migrate script supplied, the script will die and cause other scripts to not run.

    The temporary solution is to use the Enable Jquery Migrate plugin, so that your site works while you find a fix. WP 5.6 will contain the newer version of jQuery, and it will have its own version of jquery-migrate, so this temporary solution won’t work with that (although they are trying to figure out what to do with people using it). The old functions are really old, and should have been fixed long ago.
    If this solves your problem, be sure to note which plugin or theme it tells you is using the old function, so you can replace it or ask to have it updated.

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