• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • Advertise With Us
  • Contact
  • Cookie Policy
    • Privacy statement (CA)
    • Cookie policy (CA)
    • Privacy statement (UK)
    • Cookie policy (UK)
    • Privacy statement (US)
    • Cookie Policy (US)
    • Privacy statement (EU)
    • Cookie policy (EU)
    • Disclaimer

TechWalls

Technology News | Gadget Reviews | Tutorials

  • Reviews
  • Tech News
  • Tech Guide
  • Gadget & Apps

Guide To Traveling The Wonderful World Of Conflicting WordPress Plugins

Updated on Jul 24, 2013 by Keffer

WordPress is great – the updates are consistently helpful, and the interface is easy to use. The plugins that people upload to WordPress? Not always as great, and they oftentimes conflict with each other. So, when you go on your WordPress, find that new social media plugin you’re dying to put on your site, and then find out that a bazillion other aspects of your site have gone haywire because of your most recent addition, don’t freak. Just take a deep breath and follow these tips to get out of a mess and to prevent messes in the future. Obviously, you’re not going to be able to know when a plug-in conflicts, but if you aren’t constantly adding random plug-ins, you won’t need to.

Don’t Mess With Things If You Don’t Have To

Let’s be honest – the most popular sites in your niche have found a formula and a design that works for them, and they don’t change it. For the most part, everything stays the same, because that’s what their readers are used to, and that’s what works for them. Once you’ve settled down into your blog and are past all of the initial setup, your primary focus should be content.

After you’ve created a good sidebar layout and have the basic designing of your blog finished, with all of the essentials in place, start writing. You wouldn’t believe how much time I have wasted tweaking plugins and fixing code when I could have been writing posts that my community would have cared way more about than the fact that I had made an in-text ad be text-wrapped or something stupid like that. If it’s not essential to your site, and it doesn’t obstruct reader experience, then don’t worry about it. This is the number one way you can stop plugins from conflicting: stop messing with them.

wordpress-plugins

Database Backups!

You need to backup your database. On a regular basis. I know it might sound like one more thing you have to do, and a waste of time, but trust me – you’ll save yourself a COLOSSAL amount of time if you just take a minute after each post to back up your site. It’s not that hard – just click a couple of buttons in Database and you’re all good.

If you do this, when a plugin totally trashes all of your hard design work (it happens much more often than you think it would), you can just restore your database to how it was before you added a new plugin. Before you add a plugin and after you write a post are both great times to do a database backup. It may seem like a pain, but in the long run, you will save so much time that you can’t even fathom the benefit of diligently backing things up.

Make Note Of Changes

So, you forgot to backup your site. Whoops. Should have listened to me, but now your site has just gone all out of whack due to some conflicting WordPress plugins. If you are one of those internet Rambos who thinks they can just run around, not backing up their stuff, (I know plenty of them, I am sometimes a WordPress Rambo), then it is important to at least make note of the stuff you’re changing, so you can change it back to troubleshoot the issue. If you have no idea what you changed before everything went insane, you have no idea how to fix it. And that, my friends, can lead to the enjoyable process of deactivating and reactivating every single plugin that you are using until the problem is fixed. (Just did it recently, and I can tell you – I wished a million times that I had taken a couple of seconds to hit that backup button.)

Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. The commission help keep the rest of my content free, so thank you!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. PrIyAnGsHu says

    May 10, 2012 at 12:44 am

    Great tips Jack! Database backup-ing is one of the most important tasks if you are using WP. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  2. Amit Shaw says

    May 10, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    Hey Nice Tips Jack. I think Taking backup is must for every webmaster. Thanks mate for sharing this article.

    Reply
  3. Albert says

    Dec 17, 2014 at 12:18 pm

    Nice article, before i don’t often backup my site, but after reading this post, i have decided to backup my site on a weekly basis and my DB on a daily basis and i am doing all this automatically unto my Dropbox account. Thanks for the info.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Footer

Hohem iSteady Mobile Plus Gimbal Stabilizer Review – Upgrade Your Phone Videography On A Budget

Airdog X5 Air Purifier Review – Is TPA Better Than HEPA Filter?

Welock Touch43 Fingerprint Smart Lock Review

HeyChy Deep Tissue Massage Gun Review

Follow TechWalls

YoutubeFacebookTwitterInstagram

Recent Posts

  • Secure Your Home With SECURAM
  • C3STROM ASTRO PRO – An E-Bike with Classic Rebel Motorcycle and Modern Ride
  • Bluetti AC500 & B300S Hit Canada Market During 2023 New Year Sale
  • Hohem iSteady Mobile Plus Gimbal Stabilizer Review – Upgrade Your Phone Videography On A Budget

Copyright © 2023 ยท All Rights Reserved

Manage Cookie Consent
We use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. We do this to improve browsing experience and to show personalized ads. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional cookies Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}