Something was going on that would not allow my front page to load. This has happened in the past, so I was somewhat sure it had something to do with a plugin.

I went through all my plugins — made sure they were all up to date — one cool new feature in Wordpress 2.5 is the auto plugin update. You can automatically update the plugin from the plugin page — no more downloading — FTP’ing, etc (so I thought).

To make a long story short… I found the problem on Blogvaria.

Be sure you manually edit the line in the code… do not copy and paste (that is why I did an image instead of the actual code). It is a simple fix… and one I cannot believe Alex has not fixed. He is a big time Blog guy… maybe he is busy or out of town or something.

Short little Popularity Contest Plugin video on how to make the changes to fix the problem;