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Today’s Outage

Posted By richardxthripp On 2008-02-16 @ 23:04 In Technology | No Comments

If you visited today (2008-02-16) between 19:00 and 20:30Z (2 and 3:30 P.M. EST), the website vanished; all the pages would come up blank, with no error message. I thought it was the database’s fault, but through trial-and-error I found it was because of this bug in WordPress [1] (more [2]); when I was updating the CSS style-sheet several times in a row, it triggered a reset to the default theme [3]. Since I’d deleted the default theme, there was nothing to load. So this doesn’t happen again, I’ve made a copy of my theme and put it in the default folder; the website won’t change even if it is reset.


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[1] this bug in WordPress: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3907

[2] more: http://www.silverspider.com/2007/fixing-the-wordpress-theme-reset-problem/

[3] the default theme: http://themes.wordpress.net/

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