When will WPress 2.7 post entry mess be cleared up?
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Ever since the introduction of 2.7 on all my blogs the New Post display has been messed up. Is there any way to cure it? The window box for text entry will not scroll using the up or down arrows in the right hand margin, nor by clicking in the slot itself above or below the tab. The tab itself will not move the text either. Only by inserting the cursor somewhere close to the middle can I scroll the text by using the up and down arrows on the keyboard.
Then the display of commands associated with Publish on the top right are spread over too large an area, obscuring some of the text in the entry box, and to reveal all the ext while entering it, I have to click Publish which retracts the overexpansion and reduces it to just one, totally different command, Add New Tag.
To save the entry after writing or editing it, I have to click Publish again, which then expands the contracted area to cover and obscure some of the text entry box again, but makes the Delete and Update Post command tabs appear, allowing an update of the entry to save.
Also inconvenient is the fact that the text entry window cannot be expanded by dragging the right hand bottom corner.
I amusing Google Chrome browser in Vista 64 on an HP, but I find Firefox produces the same result. IE 64 allow the Post Entry box to be resized at the corner, but otherwise the messed up diplay of commands is the same.
After two weeks when will all this be corrected? Or is there some tweak to correct it at the user end?
TIA. Anthony
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Thanks for reference, but my blogs referred to are all on wordpress.com so this is the right forum to ask.
The box for entering text does move, sorry, but the rest is happening with all of them.
Am I the only one?
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I see : (http://www.scienceguardian.com/blog/) linked to your name.
Does this look like your post screen:
http://support.wordpress.com/custom-post-screen/You should be able to move the modules to the right of the edit area down below, and make the whole width available for posting. Or customize the arrangement any way you like.
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Thanks Tess. Yes I have the scienceguardian.com blog but that is a separate problem, since that public blog hasn’t been moved into WordPress 2.7 yet, but waits at 2.6 until I can be sure that 2.7 works. And the reason I have the doubts is that my wordpress.com test and private blogs suddenly do not work well any longer, as described above, but after about Dec 17 went haywire. So I just want to see if I can get WordPress 2.7 working OK in their own wordpress.com blogs first. I assume they are now using a simpler form of WordPress 2.7, is that right?
You ask if the display of the Post screen is the same. No, that is the screen that is messed up in all my blogs and browsers in the top right corner display area with its commands all screwed up in the way described, overflowing onto the text area and switching back and forth between two sets of commands according to the clicking of the word Publish at the top.
I would believe it is a Vista 64 problem except my Macs with OSX 10.4.11 in Safari and Firefox do more or less the same thing. Only Windows XP Firefox and IE work fine. Is there a page somewhere which states browser requirement ie that WordPress requires Firefox or IE in XP, and may not work well in the rest, do you know?
Am I really the only user experiencing this widespread bug?
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PS: Your advice worked! Dragging the command areas on the top right (Publish, Tags) down below the post entry screen as you suggested works! They join the commands listed below the entry box and the entry box functions are recovered and work OK, including the scroll tab.
This solves the problem in Mac OSX Safari and MacOSX Firefox as well.
Thanks again. Resolved.
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Well, it can’t be too widespread if you are the only one experiencing it :) Seriously, it is not a problem that I have seen reported in the forums since the update went live. Have you tried clearing your browser’s cache and cookies, closing and restarting your browser?
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Wait, sorry – not reolved completely at all, there is another similar problem in Settings for my wordpress.com blogs, where the listing for General Settings is all normal except for the fact that the Command display area for Blog Picture, which has instructions how to upload a picture, and the command Choose File at the bottom, appears at the top right and overlays the normal list of settings, so that half of the slot to enter the Blog Title is obscured and almost all of the slot for the Tag Line is overlaid.
Attempts to move this Blog Picture display area down below the settings list by grabbing it and moving it down in the way that worked for the similar problem above in the Post entry page does not work at all. The block display wont move.
This is on a PC with Vista 64 and using Chrome, but applies to IE and Mac as above also,I have just checked.
Is there some way to tweak it to normal display if it wont move with the cursor?
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Same thing with Firefox and Safari (on a Mac). I think it’s been reported again. You should contact Support so that they see to it.
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Anthony,
I experienced exactly the same problems you were describing. The problems with the edit window were resolved by dragging the items below the text area. For an unknown reason they remain there though all cookies and the cache are being deleted automatically when I close Firefox.
Your problem with the Blog Picture is familiar with me as well. I cannot move the picture item anywhere either. The only solution I could come up with is writing your lines using any editor and then copy and paste it into the far left of the space. Even if the Blog Picture item overlays almost everything it is possible to at least place the cursor into the text field.
Hope this helps.
Sabine
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I think I am experiencing the same problem on my WordPress.com blog. When I try and drag the ‘Publish’ or ‘Categories’ box (I’ve removed the others) so that they stop obscuring the’add new post’ text-entry area, the dotted grey box doesn’t move with them, so they just jump back to their original positions. I’m using IE version 6.0 on Windows 2000. I’m at work so using an alternative browser (let alone operating system) is not an option.
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