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Troubleshooting For Yourself – Rachelle Wise of Wise Arts

May 19, 2017 womenwhowp
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Troubleshooting For Yourself - Rachelle Wise of Wise Arts
When it comes to WordPress, you can’t avoid troubleshooting. And, as Rachelle Wise taught us, we can do it ourselves by taking a strategic approach.

Here’s a recap from our May 17, 2017, Meetup.
(And thank you DreamHost for sponsoring!)

Full house @WomenWhoWP Thank you @DreamHost for #sponsoring our #WordPress dinner & sending new friends for us! We ❤️ you!! #WPLife pic.twitter.com/SdeP0rusFR

— Jen Miller (@JenBlogs4U) May 18, 2017

Top tips from Rachelle:

  • “Don’t be afraid to try things.”
  • “It’s a good idea to know how to restore those backups. I’m religious about backups.”
  • “Finding the error is the second step.” Start with JavaScript. Let the error message and logs direct your next steps.
  • “When you find your error, Google it.” Take the file path out of the error message when Googling it. Use quotes when searching.
  • When reporting errors, provide a link, screenshot, complete error message, and complete description. Include WordPress and plugin versions in your error reporting.
  • Clear your cache, see if the error happens on other computers when error reporting.
  • Database connection errors can be found in config PHP file.
  • “Trying things is the best way to learn things.”
  • “You can put a version number on your stylesheet to forcibly clear the cache.”
  • If you suspect a plugin conflict, turn off all plugins, and turn them back on one by one.

She even gave live troubleshooting advice.

Thanks, Rachelle!

#LIVE #WordPress #Troubleshooting #Debugging #Websites w/@WiseArts @WomenWhoWP #womenwhocode #womeninstem #womenintech #WomenWhoWP #WPLife pic.twitter.com/EZB8TvQS2A

— Jen Miller (@JenBlogs4U) May 18, 2017

Her slides are here.

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