[@jmarino Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@lph2005 Yes, I figured as much and I removed all those files/folders earlier hence my “so on and so forth” comment, lol.

[@jmarino Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@lph2005 yes, I set the permalinks to date/text format. Thanks for the link… I’ll check it out and let you know the result.

[@jmarino Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@lph2005 Thanks for providing the URL… it didn’t work though. It was a shot in the dark really. I tried renaming the folder, and it gave me the following error:
W3 Total Cache Error: some files appear to be missing or out of place. Please re-install plugin or remove /wp-content/advanced-cache.php.

I tried removing the advanced-cache.php, and it gave another error. So on and so forth. Ah well… I’m just going to wait to see if my server support replies to my latest ticket with any further advice and if not, I’ll restore the backup and try again tomorrow.

[@jmarino Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@lincme Tried that but it just threw up some different errors every time I deleted anything related to W3TC. I may have to resort to restoring this morning’s backup. This is probably a stupid question, but was I supposed to disable page caching BEFORE activating the plugin? I just installed it and immediately activated it so I’m guessing this is why I’m getting all these errors. Can page caching be disabled via the WordPress database?

[@jmarino Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@LPH2005 Hey could you do me a favor? Could you copy/paste the URL of the “deactivate” link for this plugin? Edit out your domain if you want… I would like to see if that at least gives me control of my admin panel back.

Edit: forgot to mention… I tried increasing the memory values in the .htaccess file and the error is still the same (same memory values too).

[@jmarino Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

OK, I Installed W3 Total Cache and as soon as I activated it, I get the following error in my WP admin panel:
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /wp-admin/includes/template.php on line 3292

I contacted my server support and they told me to add the following line to my .htaccess:
php_value memory-limit 50M

I did that, and nothing changed. They said it’s going to take up to 3 hours to propagate though so maybe I just need to wait a bit longer and see what happens. I hate it when stuff breaks :S

[@jmarino Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

@LPH2005 – thanks for the info! I will test W3 Total Cache on my site as soon as I get some spare time and I will let you know how it goes.

[@jmarino Participant 16 years, 4 months ago]

Thank you for the link. I saw that one too just moments ago but there is not much info in there yet. This seems to be a hot topic around these parts. Have you personally had any success using W3 Total Cache with the newest versions of WordPress and BuddyPress? I would like as much info as I can get about this before I dive into something head-first. Know what I mean?