I logged into my dashboard and saw a post in the WP feed about what to do if your blog goes down upon deactivating a plugin. I’ve had this happen to me a couple of times. The plugins I usually have this issue with are..
- Related Posts
- Breadcrumb Navigation
- Recent Posts
- My Category Order
When a plugin breaks my site.. if I know for certain I’m going to be reactivating the plugin anytime soon I go ahead and delete the PHP call for the plugin. If I think I’m going be using the plugin in question again I comment it out instead.
How to ID the Plugin Causing the Problem?
If you’re new to WordPress and PHP, one thing the original article left out was how to ID the Faulty Plugin. The error message usually tells you. Lets say you deactivated al plugins and now your front page has this message..
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_breadcrumb() in /home/hostname/public_html/websitename/wp-content/themes/genesis-10/header.php on line 48
I have all the info I need to quickly find the bad code and either comment it out or delete it. I know that on line 48 in the header file of the Genesis theme i need to find the code get_breadcrumb(). Make sure to include the open and close php brackets that enclose the call.
