Mike Everleth

Ah! Thank you! I didn’t get that get_the_excerpt was deprecated from the codex entry. (And no leads to has_excerpt on that page?) I’ll go fix my theme today.

Hello,

I’ve recreated the problem that cmcdoniel first reported. It’s not a problem with a bad theme, as I did it with my own theme as well as theme Twenty Eleven, although with an edit to modify the site’s header meta description.

Here’s the issue:

1. I have the most recent version of Sharedaddy activated.

2. In the header, in defining the meta description, I’m using this code:

<meta name="description" content="<?php if ( is_single() ) : ?><?php the_excerpt(); ?><?php else : ?>General site description<?php endif; ?>" />

3. In the output in a post header, I get the single post excerpt, plus the Sharedaddy code, e.g.:

<meta name="description" content="Single Post Description<div class="snap_nopreview sharing robots-nocontent"><ul><li class="sharing_label">Share this:</li><li class="share-facebook share-regular"> etc." />

I got minify to work. Here’s how:

1. I upgraded to ver. 9.2.2.

2. I deactivated the plugin.

3. I deleted all code referring to W3 Total Cache in my .htaccess file.

4. I reactivated the plugin.

5. Went to plugin admin area, which prompted me to re-generate the .htaccess code. So, I did.

6. Re-minified all my CSS and JS and the site’s working perfectly now.

P.S. I do NOT use APC or CloudFlare, so maybe there’s still some incompatibility with those, which I don’t know.

Hi, I just had this same problem, too, and almost had a heart attack. I did find a resolution, though, beyond just disabling the plugin. Here’s what you do:

First, re-activate the plugin. (Homepage will go down again for a few seconds again while you perform this trick below.)

Next, go into the Redirection plugin settings page under “Tools.” At the top of the settings page, there’s a link that says “Groups.” Click that. In this “Groups” area, I found a strange entry setting up a redirect for my homepage. I just deleted that entry and my site is back to normal. (Well, after clearing the cache.)

Glad somebody started this thread to set me on the path to find the resolution.

Do you know how to go into your source files for WordPress, either through your hosting company administration screen or using an FTP program like Filezilla?

You need to figure out how to do that.

90% of my Tiny MCE buttons disappeared, too. What I did was de-activate and re-activate my Contact Form plugin and suddenly all of my Tiny MCE buttons showed up again.

If you have any plugins that directly affect the visual editor, it may interfere with it. I also had to de-activate my “Paste Plain Text” plugin before the visual editor would work at all. So, check your plugins.

I’ve noticed this type of spam comment lately, too. I had the same thing happen to me and I didn’t let it through. I couldn’t figure out what the scam was though. I didn’t know what they were gaining by copying my post onto essentially a blank page with no ads or anything. I don’t get it.