November 19, 2011 8:12 am
What have WordPress done with their new version?
Two days ago, everything was working fine. In the last couple of years since the death of my wife and son, I have put nearly 4,000 posts into this blog. I have uploaded 3,500 images and a few videos and I have had virtually no issues at all.
Nearly, all of these posts have been on the same Compaq 6720s running Vista and Internet Explorer 8, that I have used since I bought it about four years ago. The few that weren’t posted in that way, have been posted in various Internet cafes on my travels.
As to the computer, it is a totally normal machine, with little added software, except mainly stuff that I’ve written myself.
So what has gone wrong?
Creating a Post
To create a post, I can get the Add New Post fine enough, but unless I switch from Visual mode to HTML mode and back again, I can’t type in anything meaningful.
Jumbled Tool Bars
The tool bars at the top of the window where I’m typing this, have got totally jumbled. The order at the moment is bold, ordered list, centre, italic, blockquote, spell check and so on. I said at the moment, as if you move the cursor over them, they all change. I did a video of it here. I would put a link on the word here, but I have no working link icon!
Editing Posts
I always edit in Visual mode, as I like to see what I’m getting. But to get that, I need to switch from Visual mode to HTML mode and back again.
Uploading Images
I can upload images to the media library, but that is all. I can’t put them into posts though, as after clicking insert Post, I just get a window showing Add Image with a X close button. If I close it to continue, the image disappears, although it is still in the Media Library.
If I use my Windows Iconia tablet computer running IE8, I can move the picture from the Media Library to the post, but that computer is only a toy with a small screen. I’ve also had a stroke and my hands aren’t good and find operating it difficult.
Inserting Links
I can’t do this in Visual mode, but I can in HTML mode. but as I said I prefer to work in Visual mode.
So what have I done to try to clear the problems.
I have put a few posts in the forums, and I have done some of what has been suggested like clear the cache and cookies. Others have been arrogant enough to suggest that I change browser. But then I can’t do that as I’ve written software that uses IE and I won’t be able to demonstrate that anymore.
I should say that no other software or web site is causing me any grief, but it does strike me that I might have caught some weird virus, athough scans run clear.
It’s all very puzzling.
I’ve just added this on another machine.
Posted by AnonW
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Try Explorer 9, or Google Chrome. You may be missing support for some of the latest web controls.
By John Wright on November 19, 2011 at 11:53 am
I’ve changed to IE 9 to see if that makes a difference. I did try to put this in at the bottom of the main post, but every time I type it in and Upgrade the post it dissappears.It’s as though there is now a limit to post size.
I have another blog, which I write for a client. That uses a different user-name and theme, but doesn’t seem to have some of the problems.
By AnonW on November 19, 2011 at 2:55 pm
I’ve just tried again to add some more to this post. And I can’t!
It’s completely bonkers.
So adding comments works, but not adding lines to the post. Weird! Does anybody know how to move a blog with logs of pictures, posts and pages to something else?
By AnonW on November 20, 2011 at 8:15 am
As you an see, I’ve just added a little bit to the post on another machine. So what is missing or doesn’t work on this machine? It would be easier to sort thev problem out, if something else didn’t work. But everything else does.
By AnonW on November 20, 2011 at 8:41 am