mrsroynie

I am also having this problem with the new Woocommerce PayPal plugin. Could someone look into this as a matter of urgency?

Regards

Brigid

Hi Tara,

Many thanks for your reply. I had already downloaded a fresh copy of ver. 4.5.3 twice, unzipped it, deleted the directory on the server, recreated a wp-config.php file (using the database settings from my host, 1and1, and secret keys, using the secret key generator from the wordpress site. I basically reinstalled the whole thing from scratch, resulting in exactly the same error. In desperation, I then used an older version of wordpress (ver. 3.8) that I had saved from the last site I created in 2014. Working through the same installation procedure, I ended up with exactly the same error message.

I have eventually got myself up and running by not creating a wp-config file and allowing the set up process to do it for me in my browser – and, once I was in, updating the version manually, as you suggested.

However, while the set up procedure created its own secret keys, it has left me with an extremely messy wp-config file, with random parts of the secret keys appearing in the body of the file.

I tried to tidy it up but, lo and behold, I ended up with not only part of the secret keys showing up in the browser window, but also with the same fatal error message.

I’ve reverted to a back-up copy of the auto-generated wp-config file and, to all intents and purposes, the site is working, but I am concerned that the secret keys may not provide the protection that they’re supposed to like this.

Hoorah! It worked.

Many thanks.

No sooner posted, than found (at least the font size issue) under /includes/theme-widgets.php. Still struggling a bit with how to change the colour.