Title: Screen options aren't saving
Last modified: August 31, 2016
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# Screen options aren't saving
* [Rikkie43](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rikkie43/)
* (@rikkie43)
* [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-arent-saving/)
* Anybody have any idea why this is.
* Using latest version of wordpress and the 7 theme. When i am changing my screen
options it doesn’t save it after i have updated the page. I tried it on two installs
and both are not saving. Could it be a conflict between wordpress and the theme.?
* Tx in advance
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* [sexymazafaka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sexymazafaka/)
* (@sexymazafaka)
* [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-arent-saving/#post-6924145)
* Same here. Not theme dependent. Not plugins dependent.
Wp-core issue, screen.
php was changed, spent 2 hours to catch this issue.
* Function get_hidden_columns( $screen ) was reworked from:
* ```
function get_hidden_columns( $screen ) {
if ( is_string( $screen ) ) {
$screen = convert_to_screen( $screen );
}
$hidden = get_user_option( 'manage' . $screen->id . 'columnshidden' );
$use_defaults = ! is_array( $hidden );
if ( $use_defaults ) {
$hidden = array();
/**
* Filter the default list of hidden columns.
*
* @since 4.4.0
*
* @param array $hidden An array of columns hidden by default.
* @param WP_Screen $screen WP_Screen object of the current screen.
*/
$hidden = apply_filters( 'default_hidden_columns', $hidden, $screen );
}
/**
* Filter the list of hidden columns.
*
* @since 4.4.0
* @since 4.4.1 Added the use_defaults parameter.
*
* @param array $hidden An array of hidden columns.
* @param WP_Screen $screen WP_Screen object of the current screen.
* @param bool $use_defaults Whether to show the default columns.
*/
return apply_filters( 'hidden_columns', $hidden, $screen, $use_defaults );
}
```
* to:
* ```
function get_hidden_columns( $screen ) {
if ( is_string( $screen ) ) {
$screen = convert_to_screen( $screen );
}
$hidden = get_user_option( 'manage' . $screen->id . 'columnshidden' );
$use_defaults = ! is_array( $hidden );
if ( $use_defaults ) {
$hidden = array();
/**
* Filter the default list of hidden columns.
*
* @since 4.4.0
*
* @param array $hidden An array of columns hidden by default.
* @param WP_Screen $screen WP_Screen object of the current screen.
*/
$hidden = apply_filters( 'default_hidden_columns', $hidden, $screen );
}
/**
* Filter the list of hidden columns.
*
* @since 4.4.0
* @since 4.4.1 Added the use_defaults parameter.
*
* @param array $hidden An array of hidden columns.
* @param WP_Screen $screen WP_Screen object of the current screen.
* @param bool $use_defaults Whether to show the default columns.
*/
return apply_filters( 'hidden_columns', $hidden, $screen, $use_defaults );
}
```
* Added $use_defaults.
* Replacing /wp-admin/includes/screen.php with file from 4.4.0 will resolve screen
options saving, but I really don’t know where we should go further.
* [Vishnu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bukge/)
* (@bukge)
* [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-arent-saving/#post-6924147)
* according to me !
its sql issue or storage issue kindly contact hosting provider
to check tmp storage
* [sexymazafaka](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sexymazafaka/)
* (@sexymazafaka)
* [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-arent-saving/#post-6924149)
* in my case… I am running my own server, tuned by myself, with no any storage
or sql issues. apache2/mpm_event + php5-fpm(5.5.9) + mysql 5.6 under ubuntu/x64
with 1tb ssd storage running 8 sites.
* forget to mention, and this is **important**: after replacing screen.php, I’ve
cleaned (.*)manageedit-postcolumnshidden, fields in usermeta tables.
* by the way, looks like problem is in sql table meta key name.. there was two
keys with same name, but one was with db prefix, like wp_manageedit-postcolumnshidden,
another – without, just manageedit-postcolumnshidden.
* and after deleting both and saving screen options, manageedit-postcolumnshidden
the only which exists in db now.
* Thread Starter [Rikkie43](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rikkie43/)
* (@rikkie43)
* [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-arent-saving/#post-6924157)
* Tx for the answer i will look if this works….
* [PoundXI](https://wordpress.org/support/users/poundxi/)
* (@poundxi)
* [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-arent-saving/#post-8491571)
* I have two sites with no differences screen.php, but one site have a problem
but another not.
That tells me replacing screen.php won’t help.
* But problem fixed after deleting meta_key=”wp_manageedit-postcolumnshidden” and
meta_key=”manageedit-postcolumnshidden” records on the table wp_usermeta.
* Thanks, **sexymazafaka**.
* [reinko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reinko/)
* (@reinko)
* [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/screen-options-arent-saving/#post-8685060)
* sexymazafaka’s fix (removing wp_manageedit-postcolumnshidden) worked for us.
Thanks!
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