Comments on: How to add plugins and themes to a WordPress site or blog

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:40:10 +0000

Well, don’t give up and cry. The files are still there; it’s just a bug that you don’t know yet how to fix. But the blog isn’t gone, no matter how it looks.

First thing to try is to go in via FTP and delete the files for the plugin that was updated.

Then you can try the hosting company’s tech support. Sometimes they’ll tell you they won’t offer support on third-party apps, but it’s worth a shot.

Then you can hire JBT.

By: kate

kate — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:36:54 +0000

so what happens if you just automatically update a plugin and suddenly you have header errors and it doesnt even let you login to the admin console? do you just give up and cry? Or can your ISP get you in through a backdoor?

(i have a friend freaking out and figured others might benefit from the answer here!)

By: Johnny

Johnny — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:27:20 +0000

@Rebecca… you know, I DO have a Blogger to WordPress migration service in my “services” section… [whistle]

@Andi… you’re welcome!

By: Andi Putra

Andi Putra — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:35:26 +0000

Thanks for this. Very useful for beginners like my sis who just start blogging. Now I don’t need to explain anything to her. “Read this yourself, sis.” Yeah, that’s what I would say.

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:28:24 +0000

I really wish I had heard about wordpress before I started blogging. It seems like a nice tool. And yes I am still on blogger and suffering for it. I don’t have the money to hire a va but I also don’t have the copious amounts of time I have had to spend doing va things – I write about things to do on a shoestring budget in my home town and would much rather be visiting places and writing about them than continuously fixing code.

By: Mike Cullen

Mike Cullen — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:20:36 +0000

‘Tis a thing of beauty! Thanks!

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:38:02 +0000

Mike… it just gives you the easy capability to add the form. You still have to add it to a page. Go to “Contact form 7″ or whatever toward the bottom on the left in your admin console, and look in there for the code to insert the form. It’s like “[contact form=1][id=5]” or something. (Not exactly, but it’s in brackets, anyway.) Copy and paste that into one of your blog’s pages and the form will show up.

By: Mike Cullen

Mike Cullen — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:15:27 +0000

Hi Johnny—OK, I added “Contact Form 7″ to my site…or so it says. When I go to my site, it’s nowhere to be found. It’s ‘activated’ on my list of plugins…but where is it on my site? Or have I missed something with all of my knuckle-dragging?

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