For the past couple of weeks I’ve had to do some Wordpress Troubleshooting. I’ve been having a little bit of trouble with one of my sites and I’m happy to say I have found a solution to my problems as of today. I have no idea what tomorrow will bring however. I use Wordpress on all of my sites. The 2 problems I’ve had recently were aggravating the hell out of me. I thought I would share with you and just in case you have the same issues, this may help. I lost the ability to “preview my post” by clicking on the preview button.
When I write a post, I click the preview several times to view the article just to see how everything is looking. The preview page would just load forever and never give me a preview. I don’t have time for this I thought. I imagined the worse. I assumed that deep inside my theme was some funky little code problem sent here by Satan just to make me miserable. I’m not a code guy and I don’t want to be. I figured I would exhaust my ability to troubleshoot the problem and then when all else failed, I would hire an expert.
The other problem I’ve been having was the ability to view any changes I make to my site immediately. Widgets, etc were not showing immediate changes in Firefox. This problem was causing me to work from 2 different computers. I would make changes on one and could only view the changes on another computer running Internet Explorer. That issue was beginning to piss me off.
I’m not one to have a lot of patience. I like things to work. I like to crank my car, put it in drive and go. I like to turn on my Mac and start surfing. I’m a simple dude. I have destroyed 2 lawnmowers in my life because they wouldn’t crank. One while my wife was watching from the kitchen window and I didn’t know it. When I looked up and saw her in my rage, she just shook her head and walked away. I imagine part of her thoughts included the word psycho.
Wordpress problem #1 and how I solved it.
The preview page would just load and load and take forever to give me the preview. To publish was also becoming a chore. The page would load forever and finally publish. It was a very aggravating problem to say the least. I tried 3 different browsers and 3 different computers. I re-loaded my wordpress theme and even changed versions of the same theme. No luck. I disabled about half of my plug-ins and still no luck. I reloaded a new copy of Firefox, my preferred browser.
Nothing I was doing was correcting the problem. I finally decided to disable all of my wordpress plugins. After disabling them all, I was able to publish and preview with no trouble. I found the culprit on the first wordpress plug-in I reactivated. It was the “Yet Another Related Post” plugin. I’ve never had any problem with this plug-in. Turns out it was due an upgrade, so I automatically upgraded the plug-in, activated it and it’s been working fine. First problem solved. I celebrated with an ice cold Blue Moon.
Wordpress problem #2 and how I solved it.
I use Wordpress Super Cache on all of my sites. I understand this plug-in will load your site faster to someone who has visited before. I disabled this plug-in and I was able to view changes to my site immediately. Apparently there is a conflict with Firefox and Wordpress Super Cache. So now, if I’m making significant changes to my sites, I will disable this plug-in while I work.
I’m happy to report that my Wordpress problems were not problems with Wordpress at all but Wordpress plug-ins and internet browsers. If any of you are having any of the issues I described, please try what I did to see if provides a fix for you.
BTW, all you people on Facebook and Twitter posting dead people quotes…just friggin stop it. I’m sick of it. Come up with something original out of your own mouth.
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