Finding Momentum

I spent a good four hours today dig­ging through Word­Press code, try­ing to get our Cal Chris­t­ian Fel­low­ship Web site back up.

The prob­lem: the page seemed to freeze when load­ing page con­tent. The request would time out, leav­ing a half-loaded page sans con­tent. I dug into the theme at first, try­ing to track down which func­tion call could have barfed. I tracked it into the apply_filters() call in the the post.

Word­Press uses a fil­ter­ing sys­tem to man­age con­tent. This lets us add fil­ters over all kinds of con­tent. I real­ize that the prob­lem was stem­ming from the Text Con­trol plu­gin, where some­thing had barfed!

I dis­abled the plu­gin and voila! We were good to go again.

Since we only really used Tex­tile markup on the CCF site, I just re-enabled the default Tex­tile plu­gin and we were back in business.

I don’t know for the life of me what went wrong over the week­end in the Text Con­trol plu­gin, but I don’t have the cajones or the time to dig through server logs, et. al. and find out.

Geek­ing out like nobody’s business,

–Andrew