Fixing Weird WordPress Errors – Properly I Hope!

Arrgh what an annoying few days I have had! First of all, I had a weird error when trying to access the admin area or the comments section The error that came up was:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp() in /home/carolis8/public_html/blog/wp-blog-header.php on line 14

WordPress has a file called wp-config.php which is located in the root of your blog. If you use a system such as Simple Scripts to create your blog you’d never even need to worry about this file as it would all be handled for you. However, for a manual installation you need to edit it to put in information such as the database username and password.

With a default WordPress download, it contains a file called wp-config-samples.php and the idea is that you edit this file to suit your needs and then rename it. When I looked at my config file I suddenly noticed the following line:

include ‘wp-config-samples.php’;

What this would do is full in the entire contents of the sample file into my own real config file. Obviously variables are the same in both files so they’d get overritten. I don’t know how that line got there but I commented it out, re-uploaded and that fixed the problem! I’m just hoping the bloody thing stays fixed this time!

This has been really annoying in terms of productivity this week. First of all, I spent ages googling around and trying various fixes and after a few hours of that I gave up and carried on working on my project. Except that I didn’t really because it niggled at me constantly. I had lots of readers who were very kind and took the time to send me an email to tell me of the problem but every time I got one it made me go and have another play – just in case…

My mind has been all over the place. In short I have lost my focus. I mentioned in an earlier post that I have joined a coaching program and part of the teaching for that is emphasising the need to really focus on one thing at a time. Focus on a major goal, focus on your most important task for the day, focus on what you are doing at this precise moment in time.

And it’s really true. For example, right now it’s almost 1pm and I have done virtually nothing all morning despite having ’started work’ shortly after 9am. I’ve been here at the computer but I’ve been flitting around between trying to work on my software, getting annoyed at the blog, procrastinating by looking at holidays and generally juggling too much stuff in my head at once.

Now that (I hope!) the blog is fixed, I can forget about it and go back to focusing on what I should be doing!

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