WordPress update "broke" pages and posts

  • Resolved hansmoolman

    (@hansmoolman)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    I updated our version of WordPress this am and now no posts or page content is displayed. Can anyone please help?

    The index page has all the content displayed on it but clicking on anything takes you to a page/post with no “body” content. The headers are still visible and so is the main navigation, but nothing else.
    Here is the index page https://www.destinationkillarney.ie/ and here is an example of an empty page https://www.destinationkillarney.ie/featured-accommodation/

    I am new to Wordppress so not sure how to go about fixing this. I unfortunately didnt take a note of the version number before updating so have no idea what version the site was on.

    Can anyone suggest a solution please?

    EDIT: I have Deactivated all Plugins and then Re-Activated them all in a hope that this will help but it has made it worse. Now the main navigation is missing and I get the following error:

    Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp23_related_posts() (previously declared in /usr/local/pem/vhosts/132105/webspace/httpdocs/destinationkillarney.ie/wp-content/themes/telegraph-old/functions/wpzoom-functions.php:221) in /usr/local/pem/vhosts/132105/webspace/httpdocs/destinationkillarney.ie/wp-content/plugins/related-posts/compatibility.php on line 52

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  • Have you tried:

    – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems.

    – re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder and wp-config.php & root .htaccess files – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    I can confirm that esmi’s advice to re-upload the WordPress files helped in my situation but you should not have to delete any files and folders. Just replace any existing wordpress files from a fresh installation. The latest.zip and latest.tar.gz files do not contain the wp-config.php and .htaccess file anyways so unzipping/untarring them directly to your current wordpress installation (replacing exiting files) should be safe but always backup your wordpress installation (both files and DB) before performing this process.

    you should not have to delete any files and folders

    Extensive experience suggests that over-writing may not be enough in some cases. Which is why we specifically recommend that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    Thread Starter hansmoolman

    (@hansmoolman)

    Issue seems to have been resolved. I deactivated all Plugins then activated a handful at a time. All back to normal now and I dont know which Plugin was the offending one. Dont wanna break anything again by de-activating them again.

    Thanks for all the quick responses.

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