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1. crosetti
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Following the advice in the documentation to make Codex Search my first plugin, I stepped through the links to find the download file. I never found it, but I was able to view the contents of the file which I copied and pasted into a text file and uploaded to the plugins folder.

   The codex search plugin appeared in my plugin panel but activating it results in a white screen with one line saying a parsing error occured on line 11.

   Being new to this process I could find no way to recover and ended up uninstalling and reinstalling WordPress.

   So I have two questions.

   1. What did I do wrong installing the plugin?
   2. Is there a better way to recover from the error? I'm afraid I might try to add another plugin after I go live and lose all my content.

   Thanks for any hellp.

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   2. Is there a better way to recover from the error? I'm afraid I might try to add another plugin after I go live and lose all my content.

   Did you read your admin/plugins page? The answer is on that page.

   1. What did I do wrong installing the plugin?

   Based on you saying you got a parse error? You didnt copy the right stuff, you missed something, etc..

3. crosetti
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Thanks for pointing out the message below the plugins. I feel better about trying plugins now.

   I can't see how I missed copying something from the plugin script. I did a ctl-a.

   I'll try it again. Might give me a chance to try that fix too.

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