First an apol­ogy — as you will see, the menus and nav­i­ga­tion bars on mummymug.com are cur­rently scram­bled since a cou­ple of days.

This is all because of a Plug-In instal­la­tion spree, that I, as inno­cent stu­dent and enthu­si­as­tic begin­ner user of Word Press, went on last week.

You see, I thought I was in Plug In Par­adise when I last week realised could start freely ad all sorts of fea­tures to the blog, with­out engag­ing my web­site builder, and add use­ful fea­tures for shar­ing, tweet-feed, re-tweeeting etc. Great!!

With those words in the back of my head, I hap­pily down­loaded, acti­vated and deac­ti­vated until I thought I had found a good mix.

Well.…. I do believe many these Plu­g­Ins are use­ful, but I have learned my les­son now: be care­ful with what you choose. I did not realise they could con­flict with each other and with the sys­tem as such, and lit­er­ally put you out of business.

First the screen sud­denly went white.

Then I could not log into WP Admin at all any more.

Who after two days of work, my web sup­port has man­aged to unlock the admin access, but then we got a hos­tile takeover from some evil plu­gin that blocked the logo, then rearranged the entire menu.

But — so much for try­ing to do it your­self. It lead me straight from Plu­gIn Par­adise to Plu­gIn Pain any­way. I hope this word of warn­ing will keep some­one out there from mak­ing the same mistake!

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