18. Troubleshooting Common WordPress Problems

In This Chapter

How to fix plugins and themes when they break

• Fixing problems with WordPress itself

I hope you don’t ever have to use this chapter. Really. It’s no fun when your website breaks. However, given all its complexity, WordPress doesn’t actually break all that often for most people. Not that WordPress, or any of its pieces and parts, is perfect—it’s just that WordPress seems to be rather forgiving when things go wrong. This chapter won’t, in fact, be very long or very complicated. For the scope of this book, if the easy fixes I can offer don’t work, you’re going to need to call in an expert. The sage advice I can offer here is the equivalent of if you emailed me that your site was ...

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