One of the great things about the WordPress community is the amazing number of people who develop plugins for the blog platform and make them freely available to anyone. WordPress blog. New plugins, and updates to existing ones, have been list of installed plugins and updated a couple of essential ones. I've downloaded a lengthy queue of others which I'll do when I have another spare moment. I also added a new one which, as I subseqently discovered, caused havoc with the blog resulting in the blog being unavailable for about half an hour until I was able to fix the problem. I commented about it in a WordPress Support Forum. This is the first time I've installed any WordPress plugin that caused such a major problem. Having your blog vanish and be replaced by an alarming error text would give anyone a major headache. In such situations, you have to employ a logical approach to troubleshooting:
1. Study the error message, if there is one, for clues as to where in your WordPress installation the error might be. 2. Think about what you were doing in your blog immediately before the error occurred. This is the first next step, so to speak, if any error message leaves you clueless. 3. If you just installed a new plugin, or upgraded an existing one, deactivate it and try and access your blog again. If the error ends, you've found the culprit. You then need to troubleshoot the specific plugin. 4. The same goes for themes - if you're trying a new one, or installed an upgrade to an exisiting one, switch to the FTP program treats the files. For instance Apache, check your Comments Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok: Neville Hobson is the author of the popular Crayon. Visit Neville Hobson's blog:Suggest a Correction
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