Maybe you’ve just finished migrating your site to Flywheel, or you’ve added a new plugin or theme – and all of the sudden you’re met with a scary error message like this when you try to view the home page or log into the WordPress admin area:
Never fear! In this help article we’ll walk you through a couple of different ways to track down the source of the error and get your site back up and running.
1. If you have access to the WordPress admin email account
2. If you don’t have access to the WordPress admin email account
WordPress 5.2 introduced PHP error protection which makes resolving these kinds of problems a bit easier than before.
Troubleshooting fatal errors through email is slightly less cumbersome, however there are still ways to fix your site.
If your site or WordPress dashboard goes down immediately after activating a plugin or theme, that’s usually going to be the source of the issue. Sometimes the site will display a fatal error when nothing has changed recently, and it can be difficult to determine which plugin or theme is to blame.
This is where WP_DEBUG
can come in handy.
revslider
directory and rename it, for example revslider_bk
. (In this case “_bk” means “backup” but you can rename this folder to whatever you like.)Hopefully one of these two methods is helpful in determining what’s causing a fatal error on your site. If you have any trouble reading error messages or deactivating a plugin or theme, our Happiness Engineers are here 24/7 to help.
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