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Solved my “blank pages” problem rather easily. As I suspected, the issue appears to have been a wonky plugin. Turning off all my plugins restored the Pages back to normal. I went to the Recently Active tab on the Plugins admin page. My SharePress plugin (coincidentally?) had an update available. Installed the update and activated the plugin; Pages still worked!

One by one, I activated each plugin and viewed the site pages (in another browser tab). Success! I even activated some other plugins, with no issues.

While I can’t say with absolute certainty that SharePress (which posts new blog posts to Facebook) caused my pages to disappear, I’m glad it updated. I’m even happier things are back to normal.

If you’re happy too, feel free to buy a book while you’re here. You can also use Comments or the Contact page to drop me a line.

Thanks for your patience!

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A quick note to tell you that the second edition of WordPress in Depth is starting to appear in better bookstores everywhere, and of course all the usual online sources. The book covers WordPress version 3.1, and has about 100 pages of new material compared to the first edition. Bud Smith and I are really proud of it.

I’ll be highlighting some of the new stuff here in the coming days. Please let me know what you think, either in the comments below or through the contact form.

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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 11: Laptop computer...
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Had a great time talking about What’s New in WordPress 3.1 at the Web414 “Ultimate WordPress Showdown” Thursday. It wasn’t as pugnacious as it sounds, though. Scott Offord from OrionWeb demonstrated listing child pages, custom fields for arrays, and a couple SEO-oriented plugins (slides here). Jeramey Jannene made a simple plugin before our very eyes.

When my turn came, I looked really stupid, as I couldn’t get the laptop and projector to play nice with each other (Thanks, Ashe!). Once I recovered from that, it went pretty well. At some point, I think there will be video at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/web414-meetings-channel.

My publisher may not entirely approve, but I promised to offer links to posts I found really helpful in preparing my talk. It’s just coincidence that they both have books about WordPress:

One more thing: There was a positive response in the meeting to my proposal for a WordCamp in Milwaukee in 2011. I’ll be submitting a proposal to WordCampCentral this week. Watch this space for updates.

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