js error on post editing page

Question

I'm getting a Javascript error on the wp-admin/post.php page which prevents me from adding tags/editing the post's link.. pretty much everything with JS... anyway, the error is:

> Error: d.delegate is not a function
> Source File:
> http://www.mysite.com/wp-admin/load-scripts.php?c=1&load=hoverIntent,common,jquery-color,schedule,wp-ajax-response,autosave,wp-lists,jquery-ui-core,jquery-ui-widget,jquery-ui-mouse,jquery-ui-resizable,jquery-query,admin-comments,suggest,jquery-ui-sortable,postbox,post,word-count,thickbox,media-upload&ver=c1c854f5d9062306d43d7331055686c9
> Line: 42

UPDATE
Only solution that seemed to work was downgrading the Wordpress website to 3.0.5
I'm not sure why is this happening, but after 5 hours of debugging - I don't care

Answer 1

I'd suggest disabling script concatenation and/or compression to see if that helps. You can do this by adding the following to the wp-config.php file:

define( 'CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false );
define( 'COMPRESS_SCRIPTS', false );

And maybe even script debugging to..

define( 'SCRIPT_DEBUG', true );

Are you using any caching plugins?

EDIT:
The most common reason for seeing that message seems to be running an older version of jQuery, ie. anything lower than 1.4.2 ... do you have any plugins that load jQuery?

Answer 2

Is javascript working anywhere in the back-end? i.e. is javascript working on your Dashboard? In the edit screens for other post-types (e.g. Pages)?

If javascript is not working anywhere in your back-end, try adding the following to wp-config.php, right after your database configuration:

define('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false);

This seems to fix some pesky javascript issues on the back-end, especially if you're getting conflicts with other script minimization functionality (e.g. via caching plugins, or a proxy/CDN service).

Answer 3

If you've verified that the error still occurs after disabling all plugins and switching back to the default/included theme, then you can try reinstalling WordPress. Sometimes an individual file (or two) can be corrupted during the download of an update.

To re-install WordPress, log into the admin part of your WordPress site and go to the Updates page (http://yourblogurl/wp-admin/update-core.php). There you should see a button labelled "Re-install Automatically". That will re-download the WordPress files, overwriting anything that may have been previously corrupted.

Answer 4

I had the exact same problem, I solved the issue by disabling a plugin and then went into my pages, then returned to the plugins and enabled the plugin again, the plugin that was causing the problem was advanced custom fields.

I also manually updated jQuery in wp-includs/js/jquery from version 1.4.1 to 1.7.

Hope that helps.

Answer 5

I solved this issue with the following code in the wp-config.php

if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'wp-admin') !== false){
    define('CONCATENATE_SCRIPTS', false );
}

This is a temporary solution for me until the versions of WP, ACF & jQuery work out.