Always practice what you preach, right? I was making a “simple” change to t-shirt live yesterday, just swapping out one ad block for another. I finished my change and notice the site was broken badly in IE, but not Firefox. “No big deal” I thought to myself. After undoing the change, the problem persisted. That’s when I started to worry a bit. Pulling out backup copies, turning on and off the relevant plugin, nothing seemed to work. I started to panick a bit and Jared was able to point out a few things I might have overlooked.

The problem ended up being a completely different plugin that I had installed a day earlier and had used sucessfully a few times. Turning that one off fixed everything. Apparently the two elements couldn’t play nice together. Finding problems like this ahead of time is a good reason to keep a Wordpress test environment. I suppose I was arrogant enough to think that this one change was simple enough that I could do it on the live site. Oops.