I guess and old dog can learn some new tricks
It’s taken a couple of weeks but I think I’ve just about got this site ready to go. I’ve had to ‘fiddle’ with a number of settings and these wordpress plugins can be a pain but I’ve just about got what I’m looking for. It’s amusing though. Rule One on things like this, and most processes and developments in general, is to have things working, then make a minor change and see how that alters things (good, bad or other) and go from there.
Of course, playing with something like this isn’t like in the real world, I just kept adding plugins that looked interesting until everything blew up. Ok, maybe “blew up” was too strong a description, however, I lost about everything I’d put into the site and I couldn’t figure out what had happened. I Googled just about everything I could think of to find out if others had lost most of their site and all of their admin pages. The problem with this was every one of them had different causes and different solutions.
So, I had to take some of my own advice and get away from the problem for a while. Something I don’t often do…but I did this time. After leaving it for a few days I realized the problem had to be with the plugins. However, which one? Or even which ones?
The thing is I couldn’t get to the admin page to actually remove them. So, I opened my FTP client and just removed every one of them. That’s when things got interesting. I went to the admin page and was able to actually log in and see the content. I could go to the site and see the content there as well. I hadn’t changed a thing. All I did was download the plugins from my FTP client. Actually, and later realized all I’d done was copy the plugins…even stranger huh? Anyway, I then went to the plug-in page and everything (cuz I hadn’t actually removed them, only copied them) from the server. Somehow, a couple—which I hadn’t even used—had become deactivated. I deleted them and everything works fine now.
Isn’t it funny how this techie geek stuff is such an exact science? Watch everything crash on me now. But at least I learned to take some of my own advice; otherwise I’d have probably dumped the whole thing and started from scratch.
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