Developing OTFA

Seems odd that a missing punctuation mark can cause chaos, but it does sometimes. We have had a planned break in service on our websites of just over 24 hours while we updated a couple of things on the website. However, when we tried to return to business as usual the application did not work. Everything was worringly blank. Gulp! We checked the mysql database. Phew - all our data was still in place. We checked all the MUWP options — again all in place. A big question mark begins to form over our collective heads: well, it MUST have been the update but how? We checked the revised theme. Nothing. We checked our plugins and the MUWP installation, nothing. Then we rechecked. Eventually I resorted to printing a couple of the php documents out, brushed off my proof reading skills and went through it. And there at the end of one of the functions was a bracket missing its closing semi-colon. Tsk! That had done it. Broken our theme comprehensively…

So apologies for the extra break in service this morning, it was avoidable, and therefore won’t be happening again!