Wordpress @ Ralf Engel dot Com

WordPress MU users may have noticed a weird behaviour of the WordPress wp-admin pages when they are using Google Chrome. I have been experiencing a lot of different issues! Here the list…

- wp-admin write new post: tags autofill text function doesn’t work
- wp-admin write new post: “Add media:” buttons above text field absent or not working
- wp-admin custom fields at bottom of write new post: none of the custom fields can be “droped down” or reduced
- wp-admin in write new post on sidebar: publishing status open and edit button locked, can’t close “publish post” stamp.
- wp-admin in write new post categories: unable to add new categories, categorie dropdown not working, label “+add new category” absent
- wp-admin in write new post plugin: “all in one seo pack” locked, unable to open
- wp-admin in write new post: “custom fields” open and locked, unable to close
- wp-admin in design – widgets: widget tabs locked into position, unable to move them to reorder them

I guess there may be more issues, but I only tried to resolve the above list. I emptied cache and cookies but this didn’t help. I first couldn’t believe that these problems could be caused by Google Chrome, therefore didn’t try out other browsers. But after a few days of desperate intents to solve the problem I gave up, started the Internet Explorer 7, and everything but the widget reorganizing worked fine.
Then I decided to try Mozilla Firefox, to see if it would solve the issue of the “locked” sidebar widget buttons. It did. All sidebar widget objects can be draged and dropped as supposed to by the functionallity of WordPress.
One weird thing I want to add: Until one month ago I used WordPress 2.7 and all these problems didn’t exist. All this started with my upgrade to WordPress MU!!

I will use Mozilla Firefox for WordPress MU publishing from now on, just to much hazzle with Chrome!!