A WordPress Update Broke My Site – How To Prevent Future Breakage
I’ve read a lot of advice about how to keep my WordPress site safe. One of the most common things you might hear is to always update WordPress right away. I followed this advice, and it broke my site.
It wasn’t a single feature broken or a design element shifted out of place. The entire site went down; I couldn’t even log into the WordPress dashboard.
I panicked. My site was gone. I had an error message, but it didn’t mean anything to me. I had no idea what had gone wrong.
After a few deep breaths, I contacted my hosting company. They got my site back up and the crisis was overcome. I was relieved, but I was also afraid that something like this might happen again, especially after seeing similar stories on the WordPress forums: