Title: Search Codex Plugin crashes WordPress
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Search Codex Plugin crashes WordPress

 *  [crosetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crosetti/)
 * (@crosetti)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-codex-plugin-crashes-wordpress/)
 * Following the advice in the documentation to make Codex Search my first plugin,
   I stepped through the links to find the download file. I never found it, but 
   I was able to view the contents of the file which I copied and pasted into a 
   text file and uploaded to the plugins folder.
 * The codex search plugin appeared in my plugin panel but activating it results
   in a white screen with one line saying a parsing error occured on line 11.
 * Being new to this process I could find no way to recover and ended up uninstalling
   and reinstalling WordPress.
 * So I have two questions.
 * 1. What did I do wrong installing the plugin?
    2. Is there a better way to recover
   from the error? I’m afraid I might try to add another plugin after I go live 
   and lose all my content.
 * Thanks for any hellp.

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-codex-plugin-crashes-wordpress/#post-623253)
 * _2. Is there a better way to recover from the error? I’m afraid I might try to
   add another plugin after I go live and lose all my content._
 * Did you read your admin/plugins page? The answer is on that page.
 * _1. What did I do wrong installing the plugin?_
 * Based on you saying you got a parse error? You didnt copy the right stuff, you
   missed something, etc..
 *  Thread Starter [crosetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crosetti/)
 * (@crosetti)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-codex-plugin-crashes-wordpress/#post-623508)
 * Thanks for pointing out the message below the plugins. I feel better about trying
   plugins now.
 * I can’t see how I missed copying something from the plugin script. I did a ctl-
   a.
 * I’ll try it again. Might give me a chance to try that fix too.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [crosetti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crosetti/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/search-codex-plugin-crashes-wordpress/#post-623508)
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