WordPress Post Problems Page Not Found

Posted by Jeff

on April 19, 2008

WordPress can be one of the easiest content management systems to publish a blog or website on. It can also be one of the most frustrating. Out of the box WordPress is pretty stable, start adding plugins and customizing it and conflicts with plugins and hosting account settings can drive a blogger mad!

One such issue I came across recently on WordPress version 2.5 is a memory limit on a hosting account. This was causing the Google XML Sitemaps plugin to create issues when publishing a new post or saving changes to an existing post. Mike from Total Marketing Toolbox contacted me with this problem and I was able to track it down for him.

The problem was when a WordPress post was published or saved, in a Firefox browser the page would just go blank, or in Internet Explorer an error message can up ‘page could not be displayed’. It took some digging around but I figured it had something to do with a plugin. So first I deactivated all plugins and tried to recreate the issue after activating one plugin at a time. After isolating the plugin I checked the settings on it and got lucky. It told me that the sitemap could not be written and that I should check the servers memory limit. The plugins configuration page also has a setting to increase the memory limit. It was an easy fix to raise the memory limit and get the WordPress blog back in business.

If you encounter similar issues when publishing a new post first look at plugins that perform a function when publishing a post, like Google Sitemaps, or Smart Update Pinger.

Thanks to Arne Brachhold for writing such a great plugin, Google XML Sitemaps, and making it easy for us to track down and fix these little issues.

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Comments

Comment by Nikki Pilkington on April 24, 2008 @ 3:30 am

I have had exactly the same problem, but can’t trace it back to any plugins – I only have 2 plugins anyway!

I was recently hacked though and have spent the morning going through the theme files to take out the offending code.

Any ideas?

Comment by Jeff on April 24, 2008 @ 3:45 pm

Nikki switch themes and see if that fixes your problem. If so upload an unedited version of your theme. If not then it may be the WordPress files need uploaded again.

Comment by Pierre on May 16, 2008 @ 5:12 am

Thanks for the tip, disabling Smart Update Pinger resolved my problem, or atleast partly. WordPress doesn’t seem to ping with our without Smart Update Pinger anymore.

Have any tips?

Comment by Busby SEO Test on December 11, 2008 @ 5:45 am

Hi Simon, sorry if this out of context with the above post, but i’d like to know on how to make sitemap page in WORDPRESS? Pls make a tutorial about it

Comment by Alan on December 11, 2008 @ 5:48 am

Thank you a very interesting post

Comment by graphic comment on January 1, 2009 @ 2:51 pm

thank you for this nice posting.. btw why your site the navigator in under.. not in right side
is there something wrong??

Comment by Bostn Web Design on May 12, 2009 @ 7:48 am

I have had so many issues with conflicting plugins… My first few blogs I stupidly loaded them up with dozens of plugins only to find that my blog pretty much self imploded. I found myself with tons of blank pages and Big G slapped me with a huge ranking penalty. Not good for SEO. Thanks for the post, interested in reading more.
DAN

Comment by Playsport Camera on March 13, 2010 @ 9:45 am

I find that the most difficult problem to solve is with SEO plugins as you can’t really see what is happening without looking at the source code.

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