Reply To: Plugin update broke my whole site again

[Pike]

Kind of feels like yeah, rollback’s probably the least painful move right now. I’ve had updates do that exact “one site fine, one site completely borked” thing, and it’s usually not some mysterious cache issue. More often it’s the plugin stepping on a PHP version edge case or clashing with another plugin/theme bit that only exists on that install. If admin’s slow too, that’s the part that bugs me most. That usually smells like warnings/fatals getting hammered in the background or some stupid DB call looping. I’d check the error log before I’d trust anything else. If the table vanished, I’d also want to know if it’s actually gone or just not rendering because the plugin choked. And yeah, “just update everything” is one of those advice lines that sounds great until…