WCNYC 2014: Troubleshooting Common WordPress Problems

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1. TROUBLESHOOTING ‘COMMON’ WORDPRESS PROBLEMS Kevin Cristiano kcristiano@tadpole.cc Tadpole Collective @kcristiano
2. • What can we do to help ourselves? • Backups • Updates • Make Changes Carefully • Test The Basics:
3. • White Screen of Death • ‘My sidebar went missing’ • Scheduled Posts ‘fail’ • Maintenance Mode forever • Host Related Issues Common problems
5. • Disable All Plugins • Disable your theme and revert to Default Theme • Check the site • Enable your plugins one by one to find the issue • Enable your theme Basic Troubleshooting Steps
8. My Site
9. Where did the sidebar go?
10. I Found it, in the footer?
13. My Site
14. Scheduled Posts
15. Later : https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-missed-schedule/
16. Stuck in Maintenance Mode
17. Fix • Back to FTP
18. http://local.wordpress.dev/
19. Issues you may need your host to help you with Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7680 bytes) in /home/user/public_html//wp- includes/kses.php(1005)
20. Resources: WordPress Support Forum: http://wordpress.org/support/ FTP Information: https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/FileZilla_Client_Tutorial_(en) Filezilla: https://filezilla-project.org/ Scheduled posts (technical answer): http://wordpress.org/support/topic/scheduled-posts-still-not-working-in- 282?replies=19#post-1175405
21. QUESTIONS?
22. TROUBLESHOOTING ‘COMMON’ WORDPRESS PROBLEMS Kevin Cristiano kcristiano@tadpole.cc Tadpole Collective @kcristiano