BBPress forum – Complete site fall down – Please help!

[theappwhisperer]

I tried to install a forum on theappwhisperer.com – it has totally messed up my site, I cannot get on to it – the forum I tried to install was a plugin from the WordPress site called BBPress – can you get onto my site and delete it – I don’t want this plug in but I need to have my site operational – I have no access to my site’s dashboard or anything – please help me! I’m sooooooo upset.

[theappwhisperer]

This is the message I receive – Fatal error: Call to undefined method WP_Query::is_main_query() in /nfs/c07/h04/mnt/106566/domains/theappwhisperer.com/html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/core/template-functions.php on line 314

[dragonsjaw]

Can you FTP or use CPanel to get into your server and remove the plugin?

[theappwhisperer]

I don’t know how to do that – I’m hosted with Media Temple – I need it to go right now

[WPyogi]

This should get you started on setting up FTP –

https://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/131/Using+FTP+and+SFTP#gs

[theappwhisperer]

Thank you for your help but I have no idea how to do all of that, I’m in tears, I’m so upset

[dragonsjaw]

Well you could contact your hosts and if they are real nice, they may go in and delete the folder for JUST BBPress..

[theappwhisperer]

they won’t say I have to pay $79 to get their Cloudtech team to restore my site from a previous backup

[dragonsjaw]

Then you need to learn how to use FTP from the link above or use MT knowledge base to learn how to use their Plesk panel to get into your site and remove the BBPress Folder. Just take a breath and read and do it..you will be so happy to know how to do such a thing.

[theappwhisperer]

I’m trying, really trying – i’ve downloaded Filezilla and have accessed by server but I have 7 options but nothing says plug ins just this:

users
stats
logs
etc
domains
data
contai…

I have no idea where to do to find the BBPress forum plugin to delete

[dragonsjaw]

https://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/880/Using+FileZilla+for+FTP%7B47%7DSFTP#gs

[theappwhisperer]

ok, I’ve found the bbpress plugin – but don’t know how to delete the damn thing!

[dragonsjaw]

Once you get into your server space (your domain root) you will look for
wp-content (double click to open)
then
plugins (double click to open)
then highlight the BBPress folder and delete

Hopefully then you should be able to get back into your site.

[dragonsjaw]

I don’t use Filezilla, but there should be a delete button somewhere in the window you are in.. maybe a right click on the folder ??

[theappwhisperer]

I’ve tried everything, I can’t see a simple delete button anywhere ;(

[theappwhisperer]

oh god, I’ve done it – I followed this post but followed the advice from the first chaps comments about renaming the plugin folder (as I couldn’t delete it) – then that deactivated all of my plugins and gave me access to my WP dashboard – I then went to the plug in folder and deleted that damned BBPress forum and reactivated all my other plugins – and then went back and renamed the plugin folder to what it was originally in the FTP – gosh I’m a computer whizz now! Really needed that stress on a Sunday night! Thank you all sooooooooo much for your help and patience. Joanne xxx

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