Title: Need help – Edit posts loads a random post
Last modified: June 26, 2023

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# Need help – Edit posts loads a random post

 *  Resolved [shannon5ykl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shannon5ykl/)
 * (@shannon5ykl)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-edit-posts-loads-a-random-post/)
 * Today when staff members went to edit their blog posts they were all loading 
   random posts, a different post each time
 * Even a “new post” loads up a random post
 * We use classic editor plugin, V 1.6.3
    - AWS ec2
    - WP 6.2.2
    - PHP 8.1.16
    - Apache/2.4.57
 * Here’s a big dump of info/debugging the other guys and I have done
 *     ```wp-block-code
       the id in the url is correct, but the post it loads isn't
   
       The front end loads the correct post
   
       wp-admin is also really slow, the front end is slightly slower but not to bad
   
       When we've had this in the past its been the DB, wp-options needed a repair
       That doesn't seem to be the case this time
       I ran mysqlcheck on all DB's and no issues
   
       we're seeing these errors sporadically in the apache error_log, I can't find a way to trigger the errors though
       Lock not acquired
   
       Error reading Wordfence Firewall config data, configuration file could be corrupted or inaccessible. Path: /var/www/html/blog/wp-content/wflogs/config-synced.php
   
       Cron reschedule event error for hook: wf_scan_monitor, Error code: could_not_set, Error message: The cron event list could not be saved., Data: {"schedule":"wf_scan_monitor_interval","args":[],"interval":60}
   
       Despite the wordfence error it can write to config-synced.php, the modified time keeps updating
   
       The file permissions were also off, e.g.
       -rw-rw-r-- 1 500 apache 7.1K Nov 7 2022 wp-activate.php
       drwxrwsr-x 10 500 apache 6.0K Feb 14 2022 wp-admin
       -rw-rw-r-- 1 500 apache 351 Apr 6 2020 wp-blog-header.php
       -rw-rw-r-- 1 500 apache 2.3K Feb 14 2022 wp-comments-post.php
       -rw-rw-r-- 1 500 apache 3.2K Nov 13 2021 wp-config.php
       -rw-rw-r-- 1 500 apache 3.0K Apr 18 22:23 wp-config-sample.php
       drwxrwsr-x 10 500 apache 6.0K Feb 3 2021 wp-content
   
       I've reset them using
       sudo chown -R --from=500 ec2-user /var/www/html/blog/*
       sudo find /var/www/html/blog/wp-content/cache -type d -exec chmod g+w {} \;
       sudo find /var/www/html/blog/wp-content/plugins -type d -exec chmod g+w {} \;
   
       but the issue continues
   
       I used the wp crontrol plugin to look at the crons
   
       wordfences tools -> debug shows crons have been failing since (this is the first recorded failure) (this is Sydney Australia time)
       Sun, 25 Jun 2023 22:25:07 +0000 (Overdue)action_scheduler_run_queue
   
       The error wp Crontrol says is 
       cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 3000 milliseconds with 0 bytes received
       Which makes sense since wp-admin is running slow
       ```
   
 * I rebuilt the indexes with mysqlcheck –optimize
 * One of our developers said he’d seen similar when wp-posts didn’t have an auto
   increment, I checked all of our tables and they look fine
 * I’ve turned on the debug log but there’s only some php deprecation warnings in
   there, nothing that looks suspicious
 * Uploading images via media library they end up in a random directory under upload
   each time. e.g 2020/04/
 * I looked for changed files/directories in the last 24 hours, there’s a few things
   like
    - ./wp-content/wflogs/.nfs218cdd894e6e333100003756
    - ./wp-content/cache
    - ./wp-content/uploads
    - wp-content/upgrade/ (nothing in here so I don’t know what/if anything was 
      in here)
 * The block editor doesn’t seem to have the same random post problem, still really
   slow because of whatevers going on though
 * I’m pretty much out of ideas so any suggestions anyone might have, please offer
   them

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 *  [Benedikt Ledl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benniledl/)
 * (@benniledl)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-edit-posts-loads-a-random-post/#post-16848960)
 * Hi,
 * a great way to start debugging your problem would be to deactivate all your plugins
   and see if the problem persists, if it doesn’t reactivate them one by one and
   you will see which plugin causes the problem.
 * Deactivating a plugin can be done by renaming it’s folder in /wp-content/plugins/
   and reactivating can be done by renaming it back to its original name.
 *  Thread Starter [shannon5ykl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shannon5ykl/)
 * (@shannon5ykl)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-edit-posts-loads-a-random-post/#post-16848974)
 * Thanks [@benniledl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benniledl/) , Would you
   suggest disabling plugins that way or by clicking deactivate in installed plugins?
 * Side note: no plugins should have updated over the weekend, we have auto update
   turned off
 *  [Benedikt Ledl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benniledl/)
 * (@benniledl)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-edit-posts-loads-a-random-post/#post-16848988)
 * Hi, sorry for the confusion I suggest disabling it via the usual disable button.
   The mentioned method is used when the admin-panel isn’t available anymore.
 *  Thread Starter [shannon5ykl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shannon5ykl/)
 * (@shannon5ykl)
 * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-edit-posts-loads-a-random-post/#post-16850264)
 * An update before I close this off.
 * After going through and disabling a bunch of plugins the classic editor worked
   again (checked after each 3 disabled)
 * I re-enabled all the plugins (checking after each) and with all plugins enabled
   again, the classic editor still worked. wp-admin was still a little slow
 * After waking up I checked again and wp-admin was taking about 15 sec to load 
   and the crons were no longer working (last fired when I had the plugins disabled)
 * After disabling transients-manager (just that) the crons started firing and wp-
   admin was loading in about 1.5 – 2.5 seconds
 * transients-manager hasn’t been updated in 11 months but for whatever reason it
   seems to have been the cause of this, or is conflicting with something else but
   since we have auto update turned off I don’t know what
 * I’m going to close this off as resolved but I still don’t know what triggered
   it or why

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 * [classic editor](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/classic-editor/)
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 * [wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-admin/)

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 * Last reply from: [shannon5ykl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shannon5ykl/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-edit-posts-loads-a-random-post/#post-16850264)
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