I have built many sites over the past 30 years, many with WP, and I have never had so much trouble as I am now. My issues range from database connection errors, errors when adding images to a slider plugin, errors when deleting a page, images/elements/blocks not loading in site-editor and at times having to re-add the missing items only to have them disappear or not show again later. I was able to document my most recent issue. Maybe we can start there and see if there is an explanation before trying to figure out the other issues.
Let me preface this by saying that I worked with my host (MochaHost) to try and resolve the issues but to no avail. They upped my memory allocation and had me setup Redis and had me delete and reinstall WP. They say that everything is working correctly on their end and that they are compliant with WP requirements. After all that, the problems are still there. So here is my current issue…
I am building a new site. I am starting with the Header section and working my way down. In the Header I have a logo on the left and a navigation block on the right. At this time I am working on the navigation menu. I am trying to change my menu in the nav block. When I load the front page into the site-editor this is where things start to get confused. Most of the time I load the page in the editor there are blocks not loading. If I pull up the site itself the blocks are there. If I refresh the editor page it is a crap shoot as to what blocks will load and what blocks will not. I have to keep refreshing until I see both the blocks in the header. Then I can click on the page to open the actual editor and both the blocks will be there. If I open the actual editor without the blocks showing then those blocks will not load in the actual editor. AND if I save the page with those blocks not loaded then 50% of the time the blocks will not show on the website and I will have to re-insert them.
Once in the editor I click on the Header section and then the Navigation block to select it. I can then edit certain parts of the block in the right sidebar. You will see the menu items listed in the sidebar. When I click on the 3 dots to list all menu options it is hit and miss what will show. Sometimes nothing. Sometimes there are no menus showing but gives the option to create one. Sometimes there will be a huge list of duplicated items but none of the menus I am expecting. I was luckily able to have all these different outcomes happen, while I was documenting this, just by refreshing the page once between screenshots. I tried to explain in each of the images so hopefully I do not have to drag this post out much more. Sorry for the long winded details.
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Current Server Configuration
PHP Version: 7.4
WP Version: 6.2.1
This is a clean install with a handful of plugins. The issues started happening before I started loading many of the plugins. So I doubt that is the issue, but I could be wrong. I am working on the twenty twenty three theme. I have not loaded any other themes.
I hope that someone can help me figure this out. This is making it impossible to get anything done.
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have you tried a different host or testing locally ? this does not look like issues with the base install of wordpress. something else is at work here and without being hands on it’s really hard to tell.
>WP Version: 6.2.1
Can you try it with an older version of WP, namely 6.2.0?
6.2.1 broke some stuff with blocks, but I have a feeling that’s not your problem, but maybe rule it out. And I’d do a local install, even if it’s just using MAMP/WAMP/LAMP.
Some of the problems you mentioned sound like they are hosting issues – database errors, image errors, etc. and that’s really weird with the duplicate stuff.
I would also switch to another theme and play around with that – if you get similar/same errors, then I’d start to lean towards hosting, because they just don’t sound like clean/base install WP errors.