Bring the pain, the plugin pain.

I have a sweetie pie of a client who is very nice and everything but every little design change they ask for (and they ask for very many) and which I then implement has to be tweaked about 30,000 times before they are happy.

Completely understandable. It is their site. I just keep chanting this mantra in my head, keeps me from shooting myself in a vital organ.

Most of the time. Today the requested color was too bright.
I went in and began to do stuff. Ok we all know changing the color of the background of a div is not supposed to make a plugin disappear. I checked for missing ; or } nothing. No unclosed div no unclosed anything. Further messing led me to sidebar.php and back to the plugin page for help. I repeated installation steps 1 2 3. Still not there. I deactivated. I reactivated. Still not there. I cleared my cache. Still not there. I deleted the plugin and reuploaded it. I followed the steps all over again. Still not there.
This is the kind of thing that makes me unhappy.
Because whatdidIdo?! Back up your themes before you mess with them,sob.
And while I was re-validating the code I got a message saying that it had no less then 42 errors!

Oh why? Because of another plugin for collapsing categories. It isn’t closing the lists properly. And of course all the HTML is written out by the php script…I was able to cut it down to 36 errors by putting in some alt=”” ‘s in images.But sifting through a pile of code that I didn’t write chaps my ass. Sure I should be able to pick out the html from the php by now and I am usually good at it but it’s all do output and if that do this else if.

On a nicer note another client just informed me that due to the success of his site he is going to maybe quit his day job. He pays me a lot and never asks me to change a color.Ever.