How To View a Sharepoint Page in Web Part Maintenance Mode

I gotta share this little Sharepoint tidbit that I found today whilst debugging a project. I was trying to close a problematic web part on my page, and usually you get an error page that supplies a link to the web page part maintenance page for the specific page you were browsing.  For whatever reason, the error that I was running into wouldn’t give me this link, nor could I find the link anywhere in the site admin pages.  So I googled it and found what I was looking for at Westin’s Technical Log.  If you simply add a

“?contents=1”

to the Sharepoint page you were trying to go to, it will load the page in web part maintenance mode.

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