Troubleshooting Common WordPress-Problems

TROUBLESHOOTING ‘COMMON’ WORDPRESS PROBLEMS

Kevin Cristiano kcristiano@tadpole.cc

Tadpole Collective @kcristiano

• What can we do to help ourselves?

• Backups

• Updates

• Make Changes Carefully

• Test

The Basics:

• White Screen of Death

• ‘My sidebar went missing’

• Scheduled Posts ‘fail’

• Maintenance Mode forever

• Host Related Issues

Common problems

• 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

My Site

Where did the sidebar go?

I Found it, in the footer?

My Site

Scheduled Posts

Later :

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-missed-schedule/

Stuck in Maintenance Mode

Fix • Back to FTP

http://local.wordpress.dev/

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)

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

QUESTIONS?

TROUBLESHOOTING ‘COMMON’ WORDPRESS PROBLEMS

Kevin Cristiano kcristiano@tadpole.cc

Tadpole Collective @kcristiano