Resolving a 500 Error with GoDaddy Hosting? [closed]

Hi @lathomas64: It’s very hard to diagnose an intermittent 500 error. If you always get a 500 that would be different. You might be getting the error when the internal communications between the web server and the MySQL database server have a high level of latency, especially if you have added lots of plugins. You … Read more

Stopping WordPress’ WYSIWYG Editor from Converting “didn’t” into “didn””””’t”?

The solution at that page is fine. The reason it’s generating unexpected output is because you might have accidentally grabbed trailing whitespace when pasting it. If you use this instead: <?php /* Plugin Name: TurnOffSmartQuotes Plugin URI: Description: Stops WordPress from converting your quote symbols into smartquotes. The three lines below stop the smartquote conversion … Read more

All new plugins generating 311 chars of unexpected output?

Basically it goes like this (relevant steps only): plugins.php page calls activate_plugin() function. Function starts output buffering. Includes plugin file. Fires activate_plugin action. Fires ‘activate_’ . trim( $plugin ) action. Fires activated_plugin action. If buffer is not empty it creates WP_Error object and returns it. plugins.php page checks for error and displays error message. So … Read more

RSS feed error stopping parsing of page template

Do you see any php errors or warnings? If not, try temporarily adding this to the top of your functions.php file. It’ll cause any php errors to display, and you can troubleshoot from there. error_reporting(E_ALL); ini_set(‘display_errors’, ‘1’);