Death page when developping theme

  • I’m using wordpress 2.8.4 and I’m developing my own theme.

    Last week I had 3 occasions where my page suddenly wouldn’t load. The browser just went on loading.(no error was displayed). Going back to previous file-versions (versions that worked fine) didn’t fix the problem. Other pages (than the one I was editing) still worked. Overwriting the file or delete/create-new also did not work.

    The first 2 times I lost patience and just started again. The 3th time I found a solution. Activate another theme. Delete the bad file ( renaming it won’t work!?! ). Copied a file (from a default-theme) into my theme folder. Opened the new file en just pasted all the code from my death-file into the new file. Saved it, activated my theme and everthing works??

    Is this any known bug? And should I worry loosing all my data one day?

    ps: I tried resetting browsers, restarting servers, other editing programs… ect. It made no difference.

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  • Is this any known bug?

    Not sure that you’re referring to as “a bug”. It sounds to me like you introduced an error on 1 or more of template files

    And should I worry loosing all my data one day?

    Not if you backup your db regularly.

    Thread Starter tstruyf

    (@tstruyf)

    The strange part is: the moment I reactivate my theme, I can copy-past the bad code into a new file and it will work fine. Exact the same code. So I don’t think I introduced an error.

    After my deletion/re-activation my files and code are 100% the same as before ( the moment it crashed)

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