Comments on: Experiencing Major Technical Difficulties

By: Graham Tappenden

Graham Tappenden — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:15:00 +0000

Have you optimised the database recently? After all those updates, it might be a good idea.

By: Graham Tappenden

Graham Tappenden — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:15:00 +0000

Have you optimised the database recently? After all those updates, it might be a good idea.

By: EricaMueller

EricaMueller — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:51:04 +0000

Oh yes! Computers do like to think they know more than we do.

At first, WP 2.9 worked great for me, but over time I started experiencing major backend problems off and on. Starting to wonder if it's even WP? Could be something wrong with my database? My husband can probably figure it out… He's a dateabase genius.

– Sent from my Palm Pre

By: Kevin Tea

Kevin Tea — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:25:28 +0000

That's a bummer. Normally something goes wrong with a WordPress upgrade but the last two for me have been seamless. Remember the old saying, to err is human, to totally screw things up requires a computer.

By: EricaMueller

EricaMueller — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:09:03 +0000

Jimi,

Thanks for the words of encouragement! I'm loving the new, lightweight feel of the site. It's refreshing to me after a dark, narrow theme!

Yea, slowly working out the kinks. Like I said, these have been going on for months, and they come and go. Some days my backend works like a charm. Some days it's slow, and some times parts of it don't work at all. I'm starting to think maybe someone hacked my DB?? Surely not!!

By: EricaMueller

EricaMueller — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:07:08 +0000

Update:

My backend seems to be functioning ok, tho I'm still getting that stupid message at the top telling me I should re-try the auto update of that plugin, which I have since upgraded manually. Yea right.

My problem now is that my drop-down menus are not working. Like I said, I've turned off my plugins, to make sure that wasn't it. I removed all widgets that could have been conflicting... still not working. These work fine on the site I used to test/modify the theme. ARGGG!

By: Jimi Jones

Jimi Jones — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:56:47 +0000

Hey, I will get to that post in a minute but first…
I love this new look. You did a fantastic job and it really looks great.

Geez – what a nightmare. Sorry you are having issues, my first thought while reading this was the plugins, but you've already been there. I am here via Google's Chrome browser and all looks fine from this side.
Sure hope you get this issue off of your plate soon.
If you need a really great tech guy, DM me.

By: EricaMueller

EricaMueller — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:54:32 +0000

Yea, I have no idea what I'm going to do. I can now access my plugins page, so I was able to deactiveate them one at a time to try and solve some of my issues (drop-down nav isn't working, and it works fine on my testing site) and none of the plugins seem to be the problem.

I went ahead and did a manual update of the plugin that caused me trouble. It upgraded and works fine, but I'm still getting that message at the top of my screen, telling me to try again. There's no way I'm touching that after it crashed last time!

By: Johnluffa

Johnluffa — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:36:09 +0000

I also like the new-look blog Nice One!!

By: Johnluffa

Johnluffa — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:33:05 +0000

Oh dear….This does sound major.
I always get a 'maintenance mode' message too.
But a quick refresh of the browser usually brings it back to normal.
I assume you're using the one-click auto update.
You could try upgrading manually?