I find WordPress incredibly frustrating to work with. Plugin conflicts, plugins that only work on some webhosts, WordPress upgrades breaking plugins, bugs in plugins, the list goes on.
So as much for my own edification as anyone who visits here, I’m going to start documenting when things go wrong, and what things go wrong. Most of it will be WordPress related but there will be other stuff too, stuff to do with running an online business, like my broadband connection going down, etc.
I’ve been wondering where my time has been disappearing to. I spend quite a few hours a day supposedly building sites yet there are few sites to show for the work put in. Most of my time, it appears, goes into finding out why things have gone wrong, fixing them or attempting to do so, contacting the Support desks of plugin vendors and webhosts, logging into forums to find answers and other assorted methods of seeking answers and solutions online.
My experience with WordPress has shown that encountering a blockage to building a complete, working site is the rule rather than the exception. Those building a single blog probably won’t have a problem but if you’re trying to build multiple affiliate blogs, expect trouble.
If you’re building blogs yourself, maybe you’d comment on how things are going for you and if you’ve encountered problems yourself.
To kick off the posts in this category, here’s a big problem I encountered earlier this year - the WordPress Missed Schedule Posts problem…
…and then there were these problems last month (November 2010).
