alex997

Yes me too. Had to deactivate the plugin.

^ Click Jetpack on the left sidebar.

Then on the resulting page, next to Contact Form section, there should be something that allows you to deactivate it.

A definite improvement, but I think you can probably find something even sexier if you search a bit more.

Personally I think it would look better with either a darker background picture or colour around the white main page.

Also, I don’t think the UK needs more car journalism. There’s already PLENTY to choose from.

– A petrol head car nut.

You need to supply/upload images that are 560 x 300. Then they won’t look incorrect.

Also – my site is a LOT faster with this plugin deactivated – go figure!

FIXED IT!!

wp-config.php has this in it before:

<?php
/** Enable W3 Total Cache */
define('WP_CACHE', true); // Added by W3 Total Cache
/**
* The base configurations of the WordPress.

And after I disabled all the plugins it looked like this:

<?php/**
* The base configurations of the WordPress.

ie. the W3 Total Cache plugin forgot to put a carriage return back in the php file after it stripped out its contents and as a result the whole file was effectively commented!!

WIll be reporting this to W3 Total Cache!

That link you sent me, this is already present so the bulk deactivation must have worked…

Use phpMyAdmin to deactivate all plugins.
– In the table wp_options, under the option_name column (field) find the active_plugins row
– Change the option_value field to: a:0:{}

One of the plugins was WSD Security – which locks down a lot of WP. I wonder if deactivating this can cause such issues?

I wonder if I can turn all the plugins back on again via the database?

Thanks Jan, but I already said in my original post that I tried that.

I personally think it’s a database connectivity issue now. Perhaps all the network sockets are stuck in a TIME_WAIT and won’t allow new sockets to open.

If I had control of this system (I am an IT enterprise architect/engineer by trade) I would restart Apache, restart the database and hopefully the sockets would free up.

Is there a WordPress API that I can use to check database connectivity?

As I say, I can connect fine through MyPhPAdmin to the database, and no files have been changed.