My client’s site crashed around 9pm EST last night. Today I had to use FTP to rename my plugins so I could get into my dashboard. I started the process of enabling plugins one at a time. I need Codeless and that must have Kirki enabled. Once I enabled Kirki the site crashed again. I see that the Kirki ver is 4.0.3, apparently an attempt to fix the problem. Github is waiting for Codeless to resolve the issue. Meanwhile I am browsing new themes to find one that isn’t reliant on addon plugins that the developers refuse to update. WPBakery is one of my headaches, WordFence reported this plugin as potentially dangerous a long time ago but repeated requests to the developer to update it were denied. “It will work just fine with the version you have.”
Here are the Error Details of this failure.
An error of type E_ERROR was caused in line 3 of the file /home4/****/public_html/wp-content/plugins/codeless-page-builder/include/core/kirki-setup/codeless_custom_section.php. Error message: Uncaught Error: Class ‘WP_Customize_Section’ not found in /home4/****/public_html/wp-content/plugins/codeless-page-builder/include/core/kirki-setup/codeless_custom_section.php:3