[Hidden-tech] Can anyone figure out this WordPress issue?

[April Francis]

Many People are having media related issues with WordPress 3.6 update. Most
of the issues appear to be theme related. Many themes got ready for the 3.6
update over 3 months ago. Could be something else but I have seen this all
over the forums.

First Try:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-36-master-list?replies=5

Then Try:
- To rule out any theme-specific issue, try switching to the unedited
default theme (Twenty Twelve) for a moment using the WP dashboard. If you
don't have access to your admin area, you can switch to the default theme
by renaming your current theme's folder in wp-content/themes and adding
"-old" to the end of the folder name using via FTP or SFTP or whatever file
management application your host provides. Alternately, you can remove
other themes except the default theme. That will force your site to use it.

Best,
April

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:08 AM, B. Kimo Lee <bklee at azurelink.com> wrote:

>    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
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>
>
> Hi Shel,
>
> You could either connect to the server via FTP and look at how many files
> you have in the problem directory, or login to your Hostgator cPanel and
> use the File Manager app to look at the "uploads" directory contents. If
> there are tons of files in it, try backing up the oldest  ones  and
> deleting them off the server and then see if you can then do your update.
>
> Good luck,
> Kimo
>
> On Aug 7, 2013, at 10:13 PM, Shel Horowitz, Ethical/Green Marketing Expert
> wrote:
>
>  At 11:42 AM -0400 8/7/13, B. Kimo Lee wrote:
>
> HI Shel,
>
>
> Could it be possible that the capacity of the upload folder is maxed out?
> Do you have more than 1,000 single files in there that could be archived
> and deleted? Sometimes Wordpress won't be able to create the folder, even
> if the permissions are correct, if there are too many files in it and no
> room for a new upload directory.
>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Kimo
>
>
>
> At 11:50 AM -0400 8/7/13, Jeff Lee wrote:
>
> Hi Shel. I've heard of this happening when you have too many files in your
> uploads directory, and exceed some system limit.
>
> Could this be the case in your site?
> Jeff
>
>
> Jeff Lee
>
>
>
>
> On that site, I think I only have 50 pages/posts or less. A couple of my
> other sites are up there (the ones that have or had my blog). And two of my
> old HTML sites are that big. This one, I don't think so--but how would I
> check.
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 7, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Shel Horowitz, Ethical/Green Marketing Expert
> wrote:
>
>
>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
>
>
> One of my sites, shelhorowitz.com, won't let me update. It tells me
>
> "Unable to create directory uploads/[year/month]. Is its parent
> directory writable by the server?"
>
> I spent an hour in live chat with my web host (HostGator) this
> morning, and they were unable to figure out the problem. they say
>
> At 8:15 AM -0500 8/7/13, chat-transcript at hostgator.com wrote:
>
> Its giving a Not Writable By Group error, however all of your
>
> permissions are correct on that server.
>
>
> It was never a problem to update it while it was hosted at HTTPme. I
> am not sure I have updated since switching to HostGator (about a year
> ago) before encountering this problem. I am not having this problem
> with my other sites, though I did have a problem of one of my sites
> wiping out all its plugins.
>
> I saved the full chat transcript, and would be happy to send it along
> to anyone who has an ideas of what's going on.
> --
>
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