Site randomly inaccessable

  • Hi Guys,
    I searched around the forums a bit and tried some of what I could find was relevant with very little luck.

    I came into my office this morning and opened my web browser to find that our website was down.

    When I try to open any page on the website I get:

    Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Widget’ not found in /home/zemek/public_html/wp-includes/default-widgets.php on line 14

    If I try to access wp-admin I get:

    Internal Server Error

    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator, webmaster and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    Please help! I have no idea how to get the site up and running again, never ran into an issue like this before with wordpress on any of my sites. Im just hoping the whole thing isnt pooched!

    John

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  • Try:
    – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

    – re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder – from a fresh download of WordPress.

    Thread Starter johnb554

    (@johnb554)

    Thank you for getting back to me so quick!

    I was able to restore the site to its full working condition by reverting to a file and db backup from yesterday. Thank god for automated server backups :p.

    Id still like to know why this happened and how to prevent it from happening again.. Can anyone shed some light on the topic?

    Perhaps a core file was corrupted? It happens sometimes.

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