Menu displaying error ..formatting.php on line 445

  • Hi, just after I upgraded to 3.1.2, I uploaded a new theme. I was doing a fresh start, so I deleted all my pages, and posts and images. I had only like 2 plugins installed Contact Form 7 and Twitter for WordPress. I went to go organize my menu using wordpress menu system I had a old menu in there and I went to deleted it and suddenly the menu page is all white and I get this error:

    Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /home/lauraly2/public_html/jmillgraphics/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 445

    From what I’ve been able to find, this has something to do with custom taxonomy, but..

    I have no idea what that is. I am pretty good with wordpress, but have no experience with taxonomies…

    Things I’ve already tried:

    – Disable all plugins… – Did not work.
    – Switched to TwentyTen theme … Did not work.

    Please I really need to get this fixed if someone could help me, asap. It would be much appreciative.

    oh btw, my host is JustHost

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  • Try:
    – switching to the Twenty Ten theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes 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.

    – re-running the upgrade manually using wp-admin/upgrade.php.

    Same reply as given for a similar question:

    As nobody ever reported resolving their issue – I just had the same problem (“Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /home/content/39/5470539/html/wp-includes/formatting.php on line 445”) and in my case the problem with something that does create a kind of custom categories (QA plug-in) and for some reason I had temporarily turned it off. [IMPORTANT: this is very obviously not a problem of or with the QA plug-in…]

    While turning off a plugin should usually not be a big deal, it did not interact with the menu system of my theme (Suffusion) anymore, and I suppose the whole thing then just broke.

    Besides the “Catachable error…” message when going to “Menu” under “Appearance”, simply displaying the pages of my WordPress install also gave me an error but still displayed the page content:

    “Warning: preg_split() expects parameter 2 to be string, object given in […] /wp-includes/formatting.php on line 34”

    So as some poster alreayd guessed – it had something to do with custom category stuff (sorry – my language is not very precise, I am neither a PHP programmer nor a WordPress tech geek). HTH anyay.

    Hello,
    When I decided to change the Theme of my site I could not enter in the section of the menu because i have the same problem with the error …/formatting.php on line 445

    I solved the problem by activating the previous theme and after i delete the menues, so I could finally change theme without problems !

    Sorry for my bad english ??

    [email protected]

    (@navmansolutionsgmailcom)

    I faced same problem, the reason I could diagnose was that I have deactivated MarketPress Lite plug-in but a Product Category created in MarketPress Lite was used in Menu. (Custom Menus also failed to open.)

    I simply reactivated the Plug-in, opened custom menus, deleted the menu item which was based on MarketPress Lite Product Category, deactivated MarketPress Lite.

    Every things work fine now

    ASPatti

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