{"id":22289,"date":"2017-04-06T11:38:24","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=22289"},"modified":"2017-04-06T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:38:24","slug":"buggy-wordpress-plugin-knocked-site-off-the-air-for-about-36-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=22289","title":{"rendered":"Buggy WordPress plugin knocked site off the air for about 36 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jetpack-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Jetpack-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>Although I haven&#8217;t been publishing much recently, I haven&#8217;t shut the site down. After this website became unreachable early Wednesday morning, I started getting emails from readers asking whether I had deleted the site.<\/p>\n<p>The short answer is that nothing has changed.<\/p>\n<p>The longer answer is that a <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/500-error-with-jetpack-4-8-update\/\" target=\"_blank\">buggy update to a WordPress plugin<\/a> took me offline after a routine update around midnight Tuesday night. I wasn&#8217;t aware that the update caused the problem until I got emails from readers asking what happened, so thank you to the dozen or so who were concerned enough to ask.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t felt much like writing lately &#8212; for various reasons &#8212; but I&#8217;m still here. I hope to eventually be back on a slightly more consistent basic. Thanks for the concerned inquiries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I haven&#8217;t been publishing much recently, I haven&#8217;t shut the site down. After this website became unreachable early Wednesday morning, I started getting emails from readers asking whether I had deleted the site. The short answer is that nothing has changed. The longer answer is that a buggy update to a WordPress plugin took <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=22289\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-5Nv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22289"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22295,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22289\/revisions\/22295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}