Title: Trapping “database down” condition
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Trapping “database down” condition

 *  [eichlerguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eichlerguy/)
 * (@eichlerguy)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/trapping-database-down-condition/)
 * Hello, all,
 * I’m new to WordPress so forgive me if this question’s been answered elsewhere.
   I want to put a WP blog on my website, at mysite/blog. On my homepage I want 
   to expose the three most recent blog entries among a bunch of other content. 
   So I copy/pasted some Loop code in. So far, so good.
 * Problem is, when the database is down it causes the entire homepage to die spectacularly.
   I’d like to trap this condition and have it carry on, maybe just rendering a 
   nice message in the blog portion of the page.
 * Any suggestions? In advance, thanks.
 * –Ray

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