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Once activated, you should see the following error on your screen:
In addition, if you look at the sidebarSidebarA sidebar in WordPress is referred to a widget-ready area used by WordPress themes to display information that is not a part of the main content. It is not always a vertical column on the side. It can be a horizontal rectangle below or above the content area, footer, header, or any where in the theme., there will be a gap of white space.
This gap will also appear on the front-facing part of your site.
If you haven’t already, turn on debug by editing your wp-config.php file and changing the WP_DEBUG define to true: define('WP_DEBUG', true);
Once you’ve done this, go back to the admin dashboard and refresh. You should see an error similar to this:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/tinymce-font-family/tinymce-font-family.php:1) in Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/option.php on line 571
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/tinymce-font-family/tinymce-font-family.php:1) in Applications/MAMP/htdocs/wordpress/wp-includes/option.php on line 572
The actual line numbers may vary based on your install. The important information is the part that mentions the pluginPluginA plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party: plugins/tinymce-font-family/tinymce-font-family.php:1
If you open that file in a code editor on your computer, you’ll see there’s a space before the opening PHPPHPPHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. http://php.net/manual/en/intro-whatis.php. tag:
Once you remove this space, the errors will go away. It’s important to note that not ALL text editors will show this space. Linux generally shows it like this:
^?<?php
/*
Plugin Name: TinyMCE Font Family
Description: Add font family option to TinyMCE/Visual editor
Version: 1
Author: Kailey Lampert
Author URI: kaileylampert.com
*/
