Teaching California

Diagnosed and resolved front-end issues caused by misconfigured WordPress plugins, restoring stability and usability for the Teaching California website.

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The Teaching California website was experiencing front-end issues that were negatively affecting usability and the overall visitor experience. Key elements of the site were not behaving as expected, creating friction for users and making the interface feel unreliable.

To investigate the issue properly, I first created a local development copy of the website. This provided a safe environment to reproduce the problem consistently, test potential fixes, and make changes without risking downtime or disrupting the live site.

With the local environment in place, I performed a structured front-end troubleshooting process to isolate the root cause. Rather than applying guesswork fixes, I narrowed down the issue by reviewing plugin behavior, checking configuration settings, and testing how different components interacted on affected pages.

The investigation revealed that the problem was caused by misconfigured WordPress plugins. Conflicting settings and plugin level behavior were interfering with front-end output, leading to the usability issues users were encountering.

I resolved the issues through targeted adjustments to plugin configurations and related front-end settings. The fixes were focused and minimal, designed to restore correct behavior while avoiding unnecessary changes that could introduce new problems elsewhere on the site.

The end result was a stable, improved front-end experience and a website that functioned as intended. By identifying the true cause and addressing it cleanly, the Teaching California team regained a reliable site experience without needing a full rebuild.