Has your WordPress blog ever started behaving strangely for no apparent reason? Yesterday, this blog was working as it should, but this morning, the very bottom of the sidebar and footer refused to load. Also, images weren’t always displaying in Internet Explorer.
As first, I thought it might have been a problem with a third party website as I use code from the likes of YouTube, Digg, BlogTopSites and Alexa. So, I tried to localise the problem by eliminating each bit of third party code in turn, but each time, the page would still cut off part way through the side bar.
I then checked the .htaccess to see if there was anything obvious in there that might be causing the problem. There wasn’t. I then checked the server to see if there was a problem with load or with any other PHP/MySQL websites. Everything looked fine.
After checking via another PC and a local install of this template with all of the third party code in place, I decided to upload a fresh copy of the WordPress script. Lo and behold, that worked!
There’s lesson for you. If your WordPress installation starts misbehaving for no apparent reason, try re-uploading the source code and save yourself some time!
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