Title: Random Dead Button
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Random Dead Button

 *  Resolved [theillustratedlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theillustratedlife/)
 * (@theillustratedlife)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/)
 * Hey guys. I’m a student cartoonist launching a webcomic and cartoon series. With
   the popularity of RSS, importance of having a community, and all of the other
   things that would be really hard to do by yourself, I have turned to blogging.
   I like The Animation podcast so much, I thoguht I’d give WordPress a try, and
   I love it! So thanks to everybody who’s helped with it.
 * Now to my problem. I noticed today that there is a little square in the comments
   line that doesn’t go anywhere. It looks like a submit button, except it has a“
   >” on it. If you click it, it times out trying to contact the database. You’ll
   probably get a better understanding of it if you just go to my site (theillustratedlife.
   com) and see for yourself. I’ve got CG-Referrer, Google Sitemaps, WP-Dash, and
   a couple comment widgets installed.
 * After I get a little more free time and have a few more comics posted, I’m gonna
   really start customizing this thing. It’s a great start right out of the box,
   and that’s just flatout awesome! Go WordPress & Tech Wench! If anyone has some
   reccommendations for my site, I’d love to hear them.
 * I’m really looking forward to this. Keep up the great work everybody!

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/#post-266049)
 * 1 Comment »
    That >> ?
 *  Thread Starter [theillustratedlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theillustratedlife/)
 * (@theillustratedlife)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/#post-266100)
 * No. I think you have to be logged in to see it. I took a screenshot. It’s circled
   in red.
 * [http://www.theillustratedlife.com/deadbutton.jpg](http://www.theillustratedlife.com/deadbutton.jpg)
 * Thanks. =)
 *  Thread Starter [theillustratedlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theillustratedlife/)
 * (@theillustratedlife)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/#post-266107)
 * It only happens to authors Level 4 and above. I’m gonna try an slueth it out.
   Any thoughts?
 * l/p: wordpress/>>>
 *  [techwench](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techwench/)
 * (@techwench)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/#post-266109)
 * What’s “vr button”? Is that one of your comments plugins?
 *  Thread Starter [theillustratedlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theillustratedlife/)
 * (@theillustratedlife)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/#post-266120)
 * I’ve never heard of VR Button
 *  [techwench](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techwench/)
 * (@techwench)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/#post-266126)
 * It’s being added to the bottom of the .storycontent div.
 * `<form name="vr_begin_input" action="" method="post" class="vr_inputinline"><
   input type="hidden" name="vr_begin" value="2" /><input type="submit" name="submit"
   value=">" class="vr_button" /></form>`
 *  Thread Starter [theillustratedlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theillustratedlife/)
 * (@theillustratedlife)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/#post-266143)
 * Wow – how did you find that?! And also, where is that div? I found a reference
   to it in my theme, but I want to know where the class for it is located so I 
   can comment it out.
 * Thanks again!
 *  [techwench](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techwench/)
 * (@techwench)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/#post-266147)
 * I doubt it’s coming from the theme itself, though. Seeing as how I made the theme,
   I sure didn’t put it in there.
 * Try disabling all of your plugins and see if it shows up still. Then enable your
   plugins one by one and see if/when it shows up.
 *  Thread Starter [theillustratedlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theillustratedlife/)
 * (@theillustratedlife)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/#post-266153)
 * I’ve tried that already. It is still there. Bytheway – great theme! I was afraid
   I’d have to spend a couple weekends getting something quaint and professional
   to try and hide the fact that it’s a blog. Now I’m planning on leaving it like
   that indefinitely! If I get a functioning tipjar in there, I’ll have to forward
   some of that over to you. 😉
 * Anyway, the first thing I tried was killing the plugins. I tried it again, too,
   and it’s still there. Do you know what file the storycontent is pulled from?
 * Thanks again!
    Brenton
 *  [techwench](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techwench/)
 * (@techwench)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/#post-266207)
 * If you have the latest version, it’s in index.php and page.php
 * Unless you edited it, it should display like this:
 * `<div class="storycontent">`
    `<?php the_content(__('(more...)')); ?>` `</div
   >`
 *  Thread Starter [theillustratedlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theillustratedlife/)
 * (@theillustratedlife)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/#post-266227)
 * Hmmm. Well, I found it in your Page.php when you first mentioned it, but I didn’t
   see anything about a VR Button.
 * This is all I have in Index:
    <?php /* Short and sweet */ define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’,
   true); require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’); ?>
 * And those are the lines I have in Page:
    <div class=”storycontent”> <?php the_content(
   __(‘(more…)’)); ?> </div>
 * This is perplexing.
 *  Thread Starter [theillustratedlife](https://wordpress.org/support/users/theillustratedlife/)
 * (@theillustratedlife)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-dead-button/#post-266228)
 * Aha! Something called CG Related. It’s a plugin from the CG pack. I took everything
   out of my plugins folder and put them back one by one. I dunno why I didn’t catch
   it when I turned off all the plugins in the Dashboard before. Caching glitch 
   maybe?
 * Anyway, thanks for your help. I don’t even know what the bugger does and I don’t
   like the Stats pack anyway. BAS put lines of crap on my homepage (beta error 
   messages). Anyone have a good stats package?

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