WordPress 4.6 has caused significant issues.

After installing WordPress 4.6 last night the update has caused numerous issues that make it virtually impossible to get posts completed and ready to be published. My Wife and I run a Anime Review website where we provide double sided reviews. We each work together on articles, trading the post draft back and forth, in order to create our content.

Firstly: When saving drafts and then leaving them, we find that wordpress still claims one of the two of us is accessing the draft. When we try to wrestle control back (when it asks you to take control of the post) nothing happens and the pop up, warning you that someone is still editing the draft, remains. It takes several attempts and, assuming it ever works, we find that the draft is not the current one.

Sometimes this can be resolved simply by refreshing the page, sometimes not.

If I go to make another drafted post shortly after, it overwrites the previous drafted post, even if the two aren’t named anything similar.

I have tried clearing our Browser Caches to no avail. I have tried Purging the Varnish to no avail. I have tried disabling all the plug ins. The plug ins page also does not update correctly. It will show the plug ins still active for sometime, unless I hit refresh and then it’ll show that all plug ins (Save Wordfence for security reasons) are deactivated properly. So, I guess all the plugins are now off?

Even changing the theme to the 2016 default had little effect. Entering posts and editing them, then saving the draft yields the same frustrating results. when going back into posts the edits aren’t immediately apparent. I have to again refresh the page to get any of the changes to show up properly. However, changing the theme did cause the new ‘format’ tab on the right to display, so I guess there’s that.

I’m at a loss for how to proceed and exceedingly frustrated as this has killed an entire days worth of work. Any help would be most appreciated as AllYourAnime.Net simply can’t run like this as it is.

-Tom