I upgraded to WordPress 3.0 yesterday. This blog is hosted by DreamHost and they make really easy (I click one link). Once the upgrade was done my site was up but it was re-directing to my latest post. So instead of going to www.IMNirvana.com folks would land on http://www.imnirvana.com/30-hours-2-mins-45-secs so that was a problem.
I messed around with the settings making sure the “Settings|Reading” wasn’t the culprit (it wasn’t). I even changed themes. Nada. I looked at it from behind the scenes via FTP to see if anything jumped out at me. Nope.
So I opened a support ticket with Dream Host and they got back to me right away:
I checked this and it looks like you’re using a plugin that’s not
compatible with WP 3.0. To test this, I temporarily renamed your plugins
directory to “plugins.removed”. After doing that, your site was able to
load normally. Once I renamed it back, it redirected to that page again.When upgrading to a new version, it’s always a good idea to first check
with the developers of your plugins to make sure they’re compatible with
the new version. Or, barring that, disable them all first, upgrade, then
re-enable them one by one, checking your site in between each one so you
can see if a plugin has issues with the new version.I hope that helps!
Thanks!
Chalise
The good news… I now know what was the problem. The bad news… I have to go through each plugin to see which one is the culprit. The first one I deactivated was “Action Slider” and that gave this huge php broken error message. Not good. So I had to delete it but that was not causing the problem.
Needless to say I tracked down the problem child and it only took about 5-10 minutes. It’s a plugin called “redirection” (go figure, huh). I deactivated it and vioala problem fixed!
Two of my plugins were toast due to the WordPress 3.0 upgrade and neither are plugins that I was using a lot anyway so no big deal losing them as a casualty of the latest WordPress version.
That’s the one big draw-back of plugins. As much as I love using plugins it’s best not to rely heavily on them because you just never know. Especially if it’s a free plugin like most are but I’ve even had paid plugins bite the dust when the developer stopped developing it.
