Update: WordPress released Jetpack 3.0.0, followed closely by 3.0.1 claiming that it works 100% with WordPress 3.9.1 “according to its author.” (Spoiler alert, it doesn’t.) There seems to be a problem now in the Publicize & Related Posts features of Jetpack, making them the features I have to toggle off when I want to write a new blog post – which is terrible since Publicize is the one you want turned on when you post. Continue…
For the past couple weeks, I have been unable to insert media into my WordPress Posts, or even see the Media listed out in the Media Gallery.
Today I decided to bust out the web developer console and take a look at any error messages that came up in Firefox. There was one…
x| TypeError: a is undefined
Unfortunately it’s an error spit out by jQuery, which is totally useless in tracking back to the actual problem.
I am using the 2014 Theme from WordPress, and a short list of 10 plugins:
- Akismet
- Bad Bahavior
- Google Authorship
- Jetpack by WordPress.com
- Limit Login Attempts
- LinkWithin
- Post Ideas+
- Simple Google Sitemap XML
I disabled every plugin I had, and suddenly I was able to view the Media Gallery. Then I started enabling them one-by-one, and it turned out Jetpack was the culprit.
I started disabling each individual Jetpack feature:
- Click the Learn More button
- The “Configure” button becomes a Deactivate button
- Click the Deactivate button
I went through them 4 at a time, starting with the first row, and tested the Media Gallery again, and it started working. So I enabled them one-by-one and it turned out the Publicize and Jetpack Comments features were the issue, however while turning plugins back on, I discovered that, Simple Google Sitemap XML, Post Ideas+, and Limit Login Attempts plugins also cause the issue. So they have been removed/deactivated too.
This really sucks, since I count on the publicize feature to send my stuff to thepizzy.net’s respective social media pages…and the comments feature made commenting really nice (though I haven’t had a comment on a page here in a long time). And the Limit Login attempts is a good security feature to have.
One thing to note: these Jetpack features and plugins just happened to be the issue for this one particular blog of mine. I have others that use similar plugins and features, even these causing the issue, and the Media Gallery works just fine on them. If you’re having a similar issue, follow this methodology and disable everything that isn’t a vanilla install of WordPress until the problem stops. Then re-enable all the features you really want to include until the problem comes back.
