Thesis broke my WP 3.0!

Or was it the other way around?

photo credit: thisisbossi

Ether way if you clicked that highly seductive “automatic upgrade” and installed 3.0 over your Thesis theme you may now have issues.

Ive seen some where the blog won’t load.

I’ve seen some where various dashboard items won’t load.

The culprit seems to be this thing called “codepress” that still lives in certain files.

Here’s an actual error code one of my thesis sites had

undefined function use_codepress() in /public_html/wp-content/themes/thesis_16/lib/admin/admin.php  on line 42

And here’s the fix:

Login to your FTP and find the offending file.  The error message actually tells you where to go.  Starting in your public folder open up the wp-content folder and then the themes folder and so on.

When you get to the file itself (in this case admin.php) download that to your hard drive (just for safety).  If you are using a FTP program like FileZilla you can then right click and “view/edit” right there.  You’ll see the file open up in Notepad.

Now press CTRL + F (that’s a shortcut for find) and in the box type the word “codepress” and then search.  It’ll find the next mention of that word.

Now here’s the tricky part:

Go to the beginning of the line that contains “codepress” and type in two (2)  forward slashes:  //

HINT:  You’ll might find there might be more than one

Before:

After:

That’s it.

Now save the new version of the file in the same folder and go check your blog.

Is it fixed?