Title: Breaks everything when activated
Last modified: July 14, 2023

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# Breaks everything when activated

 *  [Jakub Urbanowicz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakub-urbanowicz/)
 * (@jakub-urbanowicz)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaks-everything-when-activated/)
 * The plugin makes all pages disappear from back-end and clears all post teasers
   from home page. I tried clearing the cache, but it didn’t help, so there is something
   seriously off about it. Things seem to return to normal on disabling it.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fbreaks-everything-when-activated%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Alex Kirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akirk/)
 * (@akirk)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaks-everything-when-activated/#post-16895204)
 * Hi, I’m sorry about this. It does sound like an interaction with other plugins
   or the theme, it works well for me.
 * Which other plugins do you have and which theme?
 *  Thread Starter [Jakub Urbanowicz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakub-urbanowicz/)
 * (@jakub-urbanowicz)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaks-everything-when-activated/#post-16895367)
 * Lots of plugins and an old, though still supported theme – GreatWP. I can’t try
   and isolate the problem on a live site. All I can do is is list the plugins, 
   on the off chance I hit a known problem: 
   ActivityPubAkismet Anti-Spam: Spam 
   ProtectionContact Form 7Database Cleaner: Clean, Optimize & RepairDuplicatorClassic
   EditorEWWW Image OptimizerGoogle Analytics Dashboard for WP (GADWP)HumIcegram
   ExpressIP Blacklist CloudNodeInfoPost SMTPReally Simple SSLRegenerate Thumbnails
   AdvancedThe SEO FrameworkWebFinger
 *  Plugin Author [Alex Kirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akirk/)
 * (@akirk)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaks-everything-when-activated/#post-16897349)
 * I’ve tried to reproduce this using the WordPress playground with not all of the
   plugins you mentioned but the ones I suspected of interference: [https://playground.wordpress.net/?plugin=duplicator&plugin=friends&plugin=hum&plugin=google-analytics-dashboard-for-wp&plugin=email-subscribers&plugin=email-subscribers&theme=greatwp](https://playground.wordpress.net/?plugin=duplicator&plugin=friends&plugin=hum&plugin=google-analytics-dashboard-for-wp&plugin=email-subscribers&plugin=email-subscribers&theme=greatwp)
 * Things seem fine, so I wondered if on your site the Friends plugin really breaks
   everything just upon activation or if you might have some settings activated.
   For example this configuration would remove the posts from your frontpage:
 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/alex.kirk.at/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/07/friends-
   homepage-post-format-settings.png?ssl=1)

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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/friends/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3496634)
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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Alex Kirk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akirk/)
 * Last activity: [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/breaks-everything-when-activated/#post-16897349)
 * Status: not resolved