Troubleshooting Wordpress Plugin Conflicts

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How to find conflicting Plugins in Wordpress

Troubleshooting WP plugins is usually a simple process of eliminating which one breaks the code. The example I use here is the WP cumulus tag-cloud, where your tags float around in mid air. This flash application has a conflict with another plugin in WP. What you should do now is find the plugin that breaks the cloud, and deactivate it.

First we need to make sure that it is not a browser incompatibility, but a real plugin clash. Then you just turn off each plugin, reload your webpage and check if your most wanted wordpress plugin works now as expected.

How to eliminate browser issues.

Use Firefox and Chrometo see if the wordpress plugin is broken in both. If it is, this indicates to you that you have a plugin clash issue. Some versions of IE do not always display pages properly anyway, so you may not want to use Explorer alone for testing.

If you know that the plugin is featured on a demo site, test it. The creator is sure to have made sure that the WP plugin works. If you can see the plugin working on their website but it still misbehaves on your page, you have a WP plugin conflict.

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How to detect a Plugin Conflict.

Start a new private browsing session, and open your webpage. In another browser, log into your site's admin page and open the active WP plugins. If there are only a few plugins, deactivate the first one.

Go to the other browser and press F5 to refresh the page.
Check if the plugin works properly.

If you have a large number of plugins, choose the first 5 or 10, and deactivate all of them. In the other browser, see if your WP plugin works OK.

Keep turning off the plugins one by one, or ten by ten. And reload the page in the other web-browser every time to check if the plugin starts up.

If you turn them off individually, as soon as your plugin begins to work, you know the last plugin you deactivate caused the crash. If you deactivate them bulk, once you see that your plugin starts to work, activate half of your last bulk back on. Reload the page again. If your WP plugin still works, the culprit is in the previous lot that are still inactive. If the plugin is broken again, you turned the rogue plugin back on. But now you only need to check those few to detect the one causing the error.

When you know which WP plugin results in the conflicts, you can replace it.

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