[okfn-help] Help! Front page of The Public Domain Review is broken!

Wed Dec 7 13:29:27 UTC 2011

Jonathan is right.

Although i think the real lesson is that you do not upgrade plugins
yourself, but you make a ticket and ask the wordpress admins to do it
for you.

/nils.

PS: See also http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/911 and
http://trac.okfn.org/ticket/912

On 07/12/11 14:08, Jonathan Gray wrote:
> Okay we've now resolved this.
> 
> Daniel (or someone else) upgraded the 'meetup' - which caused most of
> the Wordpress sites to break, even where it wasn't enabled. Elf zapped
> the plugin and now everything is back to normal.
> 
> THE MORAL OF THE STORY:
> 
> *Please* don't upgrade anything on the multisite unless:
> 
>   * You ping okfn-help to say what you are doing first - even with
> relatively small upgrades/changes
>   * You check that people who know how to fix things are on hand to
> help if something goes wrong - especially if you aren't going to be
> around
>   * You are prepared for everything to break
> 
> And after an upgrade:
> 
>   * You check sites to see that everything is normal
> 
> J.
> 
> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Okay, blog.okfn.org is down, science.okfn.org is down,...
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>>> Did anyone upgrade a theme?
>>>
>>> J.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Nils Toedtmann <nils.toedtmann at okfn.org> wrote:
>>>> Would not be the first time a WP plugin upgrade breaks blogs, that is a
>>>> candidate cause. Daniel, which plugins did you upgrade?
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone check whether other blogs are affected as well?
>>>>
>>>> @elf-pavlik, @koolhead: do you have time to look into this?
>>>>
>>>> /nils.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 07/12/11 13:08, Jonathan Gray wrote:
>>>>> The front page of the Public Domain Review is broken:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://publicdomainreview.org/
>>>>>
>>>>> We just noticed this this morning. Adam hasn't done anything to the
>>>>> site today and we're trying to figure out what has gone wrong and how
>>>>> to fix it.
>>>>>
>>>>> We thought this might have been an upgrade breaking a plugin, but we
>>>>> can't see an upgrade as far as we can tell. Daniel upgraded some
>>>>> plugins, but this seems unrelated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone have any ideas what could be wrong?
>>>>>
>>>>> We're on IRC now...
>>>>>
>>>>> J.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> See http://nils.toedtmann.net/ for contact details.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Gray
>>>
>>> Community Coordinator
>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>>> http://www.okfn.org
>>>
>>> http://twitter.com/jwyg
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jonathan Gray
>>
>> Community Coordinator
>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
>> http://www.okfn.org
>>
>> http://twitter.com/jwyg
> 
> 
> 

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