Wordpress Whoa, More Like Woe.
Just sitting there trying to tweak this theme to be valid XHTML and CSS and messing around with some plug-in, all of a sudden something just goes wrong and wordpress (version 2.2) breaks and several features wont work… (Cue dramatic music) I’m sitting here thinking what could possibly be the problem? So I start undoing and backtracking to figure out what could have gone wrong. Nothing is making sense.
Luckily I had backed up the files. Well I decide to just overwrite what I’ve got thinking it would be just fine. Now…. I can’t login to the back end. Horrayz! (yes with a Z…. it was pretty dramatic when it happened. It DESERVES the infamous Z)
Now I’m thinking, this might be a good time to look at version 2.3…. I mean why not… latest edition, lots of cool new features… sure I’ll upgrade. Right… upgrade.
I carefully follow the steps to upgrade and I get the page saying upgrade successful and everything. Horrayz (yes again….) Ready to make a new “posting” I rush to the login screen… only to be told I have my cookies disabled. Whisky Tango Foxtrot.
I double check everything, on two browsers… on two computers. Cookies are fine, delicious even. So I go on the hunt to figure out just what the heck is going on. Turns out, several people are having this cookies error after upgrading to version 2.3.
I start Googling for the original WP 2.2 files, find them and this time I deleted everything and reuploaded the files. Finally it worked. I go to upload my themes and plug-ins and WHAM it screws up again… so now I know its not wordpress, it cant be the theme… then its the plug-ins messing with wordpress. Ok fine.
I narrow it down to a single plug-ins and delete it, and reinstall it. And finally here I am.
All of this could have been avoided if the WP 2.3 didn’t have a problem with cookies. But all in all it was a good experience seeing the infamous white screen of death and figuring out how to fix it.
