{"id":50112,"date":"2019-08-04T05:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=50112"},"modified":"2019-08-03T10:31:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T14:31:43","slug":"blog-housekeeping-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/08\/04\/blog-housekeeping-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog housekeeping notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to anyone who tried to access the blog on Saturday morning, as it went down hard for about an hour after my WordPress statistics plug-in got holed below the waterline and had to be scuttled. I&#8217;ve been using it for several years without a problem, but somehow Saturday was the day it decided to stop working. A reader notified me on one of the social media sites that the blog wasn&#8217;t loading and I checked the dashboard to see a long list of fatal errors pop up. It looked like the initial problem was a call to a non-existent function in SQL which then caused a cascade of other uncaught errors and the blog no longer displayed for would-be readers. I switched to the troubleshooting tab and then looked at the details on the CyStats plug-in, and suddenly the answer appeared:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50113\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-04-Plugins-\u2039-Quotulatiousness-\u2014-WordPress.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50113\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50113\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-04-Plugins-\u2039-Quotulatiousness-\u2014-WordPress-601x640.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-04-Plugins-\u2039-Quotulatiousness-\u2014-WordPress-601x640.png 601w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-04-Plugins-\u2039-Quotulatiousness-\u2014-WordPress-141x150.png 141w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-04-Plugins-\u2039-Quotulatiousness-\u2014-WordPress-480x511.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-04-Plugins-\u2039-Quotulatiousness-\u2014-WordPress-768x818.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screenshot_2019-08-04-Plugins-\u2039-Quotulatiousness-\u2014-WordPress.png 842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">You may have to look really closely to see what the issue is&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ll have to do without my old stats package now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry to anyone who tried to access the blog on Saturday morning, as it went down hard for about an hour after my WordPress statistics plug-in got holed below the waterline and had to be scuttled. 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