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Life As A Dashboard of Plugins and Add-ons
The Art of Deactivating & Reactivating
Take a moment to consider yourself the administrator of your life’s dashboard. Recently, the platform your existence is built on has had 90% of its functionality removed but you remain in control of what is left and you’ll stay in control when full functionality returns. You are admin, after all.
The other day a slider on the front page of my website stopped functioning. Or, more accurately, it disappeared. This occurred immediately after I had upgraded to the latest version of the WordPress platform. A similar thing had happened once before, so I knew the score. One of the plugins I was running was not yet compatible with the new version of WP and was causing the error. But which was it? There was only one way to find out.
I would have to deactivate all the plugins and bring them back in one at a time until I identified the culprit by a simple process of elimination.
As it happened, one third of the way through the process, and before the source of the error had revealed itself, I noticed that one of the plugins had become marked as needing an upgrade, so I interrupted my systematic detection, made a note of where I had got to in terms of moving down the plugins list one by one, and clicked on the upgrade button.
