Title: Plugin and Theme searching giving me errors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin and Theme searching giving me errors

 *  [ngarg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ngarg/)
 * (@ngarg)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-theme-searching-giving-me-errors/)
 * Hi,
 * I recently re-installed WordPress 3.0.1. The installation went smoothly. Then
   I tried to add a new plugin. So Clicked on “Add New” and typed-in the search 
   term. However, instead of returning me search results. I got the following error
   message:
 * An unknown error has occured.
 * When I switched on the debug mode, I got the following error message:
 * Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset 0 of 5973 bytes
   in /home/xxxx/public_html/wp-admin/includes/plugin-install.php on line 48
 * I am getting similar errors when I click on Featured, Popular, Newest, Recently
   Updated.
 * Further more, I am getting same errors when I am trying to install themes.
 * Can anyone help me with this problem?
 * thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [ngarg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ngarg/)
 * (@ngarg)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-and-theme-searching-giving-me-errors/#post-1697419)
 * Ok! I know what is happening, however I don’t know how to fix it. Here is the
   issue.
 * I changed my machines hostname. Above features described do not work with the
   new hostname. If I change the hostname back to the old one, all the above features
   suddenly start to work.
 * I have tried rebooting, re-installing afresh but nothing works. Only thing works
   is changing to the old hostname.
 * The thing is that the old hostname wasn’t working with my SMTP Server (postfix),
   so I had to change it.

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