tomjkt

Yes I upgraded to the latest WP version. I reinstalled the theme and now it runs again fine! (I did this actually already once).
So the mystery is not solved, but at least the problem vanished.
Thanks for your support, Kathryn!

Does not help.
I guess, I give up.
Something is definitely wrong with the theme, my WP installation is brand new, I deleted and installed the theme again, and it still does not display the widgets on the front page.
I tried to force to show the widgets by using Jetpack’s Widget Visibility plugin to no avail as well. What else should I do? Writr is a rather simple theme which actually should run flawlessly. What a pity it doesn’t.

Found it in the folder Inc and deleted it. Then the whole theme is broken and only the error message as described above appears. Maybe I read the comment of stormbolter wrong and I have only to delete the content of the file, not the file itself. Will try this.

I cannot find any custom-header.php in my writr theme. Would like to delete it and try out whether this solves my problem as well.

Hi Kathryn,

you will find the screenshot here.

Best,
Thomas

Hi Kathryn,

yes I reactivated the plugins again, since it didn’t change anything to deactivate them.
I deactivate them now (just Akismet is running) so you might have a look yourself.

Best,
Thomas

Hi Kathryn,
I did like you advised and installed a fresh theme copy via ftp, but to no avail. All plugins have been deactivated and the theme files have not been edited. Still, on the frontpage no widgets are displayed.
Can’t find out what happens.
Hope you have some ideas what to do now.
Best,
Thomas

Hi Kathryn,

I switched to twelve-thirteen and everything is displaying on the homepage as intended (Upcoming Events, Recent Posts, Subscribe, Search, and the social buttons).
These widgets are not displayed on the homepage with writr. Only if one of the pages is clicked, the widgets will display. Also the error message will pop up, when customizing the theme.
Would you like to have a look ‘inside’?

Best,
Thomas

Hi Kathryn,

no, the site is not down. Please try again: themadbeanjakarta.com

Will do as you say and come back.
Thank you!