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I believe I found the problem. FeedWordPress asks you to update the MagpieRSS, and I had allowed it to do so. But when I reverted/downgraded that back to what it was before I installed FeedWordPress, it seems to parse my Google Reader shared items feed now.

I did this by overwriting the rss-functions.php and rss.php files in the wp-includes folder with the original files from the 2.9.2 WordPress release.

The output from FeedWordPress is less than ideal, however: has anyone found a good way to make it clear that the syndicated items are not written by the sharer? (The “Add Attribution for FeedWordPress” add-on module supplied by the author does not seem to process Google Reader shared item feeds correctly.)

Really, a plugin can have a CSS file that isn’t part of the theme and completely overrides the core CSS files — even something as fundamental as paragraph spacing? Kinda scary…

How would I go about doing that? For what it’s worth, I ran a check and repair of the database on my hosting control panel, but no change.

Yes, did this. When all plugins were removed, the plugins.php page loaded and disabled them all when it didn’t find them. However, if I put any plugin back into the folder, plugins.php fails to load again… even hello dolly, and even though it’s disabled.

Alright, if no one knows how to fix this — can anyone recommend how I can reinstall or otherwise recover my blog without losing anything? I haven’t got a backup of the database. Is it possible to delete the plugin settings without deleting the blog?

Alright, if no one knows how to fix this — can anyone recommend how I can reinstall or otherwise recover my blog without losing anything? I haven’t got a backup of the database. Is it possible to delete the plugin settings without deleting the blog?

Another thing that I just noticed is that if I try to install a plugin (e.g. hello.php), and get the error page, an 20+ megabyte “core.#” file (core dump?) is created in the wp-admin folder… the Add New menu option (plugin-install.php) also causes these files to be created.

Deleted, re-loaded from source ZIP… no luck. The original plugins folder contains two plugins: Akismet and hello.php — even when either of those are present, loading the Plugins page fails. The plugins.php page only loads when no plugins are present in the plugins folder at all.

I wonder why even just adding one plugin — even one of those that came bundled with it originally — would cause it to fail?

Any plug-in causes this problem, even the Hello Dolly plug-in that came with 2.7 — there’s no reason to think upgrading would solve the problem, it seems more likely that I need to solve the problem before I can consider upgrading.

Not sure if this is related, but plugin-install.php as stopped working as well — all pages are blank, except for the start page (but the “popular tags” aren’t appearing at bottom.) This is occurring on other WordPress installations on my server now as well.