As any blogger should know by now. Last week WordPress released the latest version of it’s blogging platform. Like every other person that can’t wait to see the updates, I updated straight away. So far so good. No plugin issues here so far.
But, there is an issue that became immediately apparent. For some reason after upgrading, the “Publish” button on all new posts has disappeared. On old posts, the “Update” or “Save Changes” buttons have disappeared aswell. Huge problem obviously.
I fiddled around until I finally got the fix, and realized what had caused it. If you are like me, and want to see the full width of your post, you will usually change your WordPress admin panel to “1 Column”. For some reason, by default, WordPress will not show the publish button if you start out on this view. If you switch back to 2 columns, the publish button comes instantly viewable on the right. Luckily, if you switch back to a single column again, the publish button is now magically viewable.
I’m not sure on the exact reasoning. But as I say, it will only ever occur if your WordPress settings were on 1 column at the time of upgrading. Changing it to 1 column from 2 column after the upgrade will not result in any issues.
NOTE : To change your column settings. There is a “Screen Options” button to the top right of your wordpress admin section. It will bring a drop down which you can then change the column options.
Well wade,
Sorry to say that, but this error never occured to me, the first problem i faced on WP3 was unable to delete a post that too on RC3, but it seems everything is fine.
Maybe there had been a cache issue on ur server.
Thanks for the tip! You saved me what could have easily been a few hours of frustration.
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