Yes it’s BLACK that today this WordPress based blog was down for a while with a 500 error:
The website encountered an error while retrieving http://www.jiangtanghu.com/blog/. It may be down for maintenance or configured incorrectly.
I checked web log and it says:
[24-Nov-2012 02:58:49] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in ../public_html/jiangtanghu/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-conditional-captcha/wp-conditional-captcha.php on line 401
So the problem comes from a WordPress plugin “Conditional CAPTCHA for WordPress” . The line 401 in wp-conditional-captcha.php is
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I use WordPress v3.4.2 and “Conditional CAPTCHA for WordPress” v3.2.6. I didn’t notice this error before and it may be a compatibility issue (I know 0 about PHP). So my solution: delete the plugin.
Furthermore, I plan to switch to Github+jekyll and get rid of WordPress (sorry, you are wonderful; I’m just an emotional customer in this crazy Black Friday) .