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Recover from a crash with recovery mode

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Recover from a crash with recovery mode

- [Instructor] I would argue WordPress is the most stable content management system you can build your website on, and it's also the safest to use, meaning as you use WordPress on the back end or the front end, there's almost no chance you'll be able to irrevocably damage the site or its contents, and there's almost no chance you'll be able to take your site down to the point you can't bring it up again. Having said that, there is a good chance at some point during your time working with WordPress, you'll run into a particular issue that is to be quite frank, very, very scary. Let me trigger it to see what that looks like. I'll go into the back end of my site, go to Appearance to enable a new theme, and here I've created a theme with a bunch of PHP errors that will crash WordPress. It's called pirsig. I'll activate it, and when I do I get this message, Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'function' (T_FUNCTION)…

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