Help I Can’t get into my WordPress Site
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Have you recently updated or made changes to your Social Warfare or another plugin and now your website is down or broken? If you are using Bluehost as your host here are some steps you can follow to quickly get back online. Steps may be similar for other hosts too.
Note: These same steps can be used for any plugin you add, install or update that breaks your site.
Instructions on Bluehost
Login to Bluehost
Click on My Sites
Hover over the tile for your website
Click manage site
Click Plugins
Disable Social Warfare in the plugin list
Look for Social Warfare in the plugin list – I don’t have it installed, but the image shows how you can toggle the plugins on and off.
Check that you can access your website again.
Social Sharing
Here are some great lightweight Social Sharing plugins you can use for your website.
Sassy Social Share
Social Pug
Take Regular Backups
Does your host take daily backups for you? If not, you can install a plugin like “Updraft Plus” that you can set to take backups for you on a schedule or manually as needed – like before you make a change to your website. You can save the backup to an FTP on your host or to google drive, which is a great option for offsite backups. Updraft Plus
