There are a variety of ways to search for the information you need. The biggest problem is finding the “words” that describe your problem. The next biggest problem is limiting your search to only WordPress resources or sites. Let’s look at how to do this.
Sometimes it’s easy to search using keywords because the problem you are having tells you what is wrong with it. Copy the most important words from the error, paste them into a text editor and take a good look at them. Here is an example:
Warning: main(/home/atlantis/public_html/wp-includes/
functions.php): failed to open stream: No such
file or directory in /home/stargateatlantis/
public_html/wp-settings.php on line 67
Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required
'/home/atlantis/public_html/wp-includes/
functions.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:
/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/stargateatlantis/
public_html/wp-settings.php on line 67
Hidden within this information are the key words you need to help you get the answers.
Opening the files referenced, like functions.php, might help, but other files are often processed long before it gets to functions.php or wp-settings.php and the line number related to the generated file is not necessarily the line number in those template files. It might get you close, but maybe not.
From this error, though, you have some critical information to help you with your search. You know the names of the files that are causing the grief:
- functions.php
- wp-settings.php
These are part of the keywords that you will need to be looking for.
The specific errors are failed to open stream and failed opening required and they both happen within the wp-settings.php file. Maybe the problem isn’t in the functions.php but in the wp-settings.php file? And you see the words “failed” and “open” in both errors. That’s a clue.
Create a search in your favorite search engine that included the words:
wordpress failed open wp-settings.php
This should get you started on narrowing down the problem.
But not all keywords can be so easily found. If the problem is with CSS or HTML, you can include the specific tag or selector that has the problem, but this might not be the problem at all, so you need to hunt for words that describe your problem.
If there is a difference in your web page layout in Microsoft Internet Explorer and another browser, then search for information on Internet Explorer layout bugs. If you have a consistent error in the different browsers in the layout, which part of the layout is it affecting? The sidebar, header, post content, or comments? If the problem is the image in the header not showing up or not working right, then search for wordpress header image to start, then add the specifics like wordpress header image missing to narrow things down.
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