Archive for the ‘Toubleshooting WordPress’ Category

My WP-Admin is blank! What do I do!?

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

We had this happen on a customer's site today. It is actually not a huge deal as it seems to be caused by a cookie problem. To be able to log in to your wp-admin, simply add /wp-login.php?logout=true to your domain name and hit enter. This will cause WordPress to log ...

Contact Form 7 and Nivo Slider don’t work well together!

Monday, December 12th, 2011

If you are using Contact Form 7 and Nivo Slider then you might need to add the following code to your functions.php file, so that your slideshows work. add_action( 'wp_print_scripts', 'my_deregister_javascript', 100 ); function my_deregister_javascript() { wp_deregister_script( 'contact-form-7' ); } This will remove the contact form 7 version of the jQuery easing script, which removes ...

User Roles in the WordPress Database

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Where are the user roles stored for WordPress? If you have ever been looking for where the actual user roles are stored for WordPress, say because all of a sudden you have no user roles anymore, they are actually socked away in the database.  Go to your wp_options table and find ...

Twitter Tools doesn’t work anymore

Monday, February 7th, 2011

At least, that's what we thought.  We tried everything, including re-entering all our credentials again. Nothing seemed to work. Then we tried something really strange. We re-applied for a Twitter application, just created a new one.  This gave us all new Oauth Consumer Keys and Access tokens. After putting them into Twitter ...

How to remove comments from post page when comments are turned off?

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

You need to modify the PHP in your single.php script to look at whether comments are on or off. You can wrap all of the comment functionality in your theme file (single.php) with: if ( comments_open()) { //comment stuff from theme in here } You may have to play games with php tags (<?php or ...

Updating themes puts my site into maintenance mode, and I can’t get out!

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

We just recently put a new website together using our host's one-click install method. Instantly, the site needed something like 30 updates, most of which were to theme files. So, I just clicked "update all".  Then, all of a sudden, my whole site was in maintenance mode and I couldn't do ...

Upgrading my Swift Theme completely broke my site

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Over at Journey To a Better Man, we use the Swift theme.  So far we have absolutely loved it because it provides some great functionality that helped us to get a clean theme out of the box that has some great and easy customization tools. Everything was going great, until the ...