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When your WordPress site breaks

Calm, practical steps for the most common problems.

• How to find which plugin is breaking your WordPress site

  A practical, step-by-step way to track down the plugin behind a broken page, a white screen or a strange error, without taking your site down for visitors.

• "There has been a critical error on this website": what it means and how to fix it

  What WordPress's critical error message actually means, how to get back into your dashboard, and how to find the plugin or theme behind it.

• Your site broke after a plugin update: a calm checklist

  A step-by-step checklist for when a WordPress plugin update breaks something, from the first five minutes to fixing it for good.