Help a rookie out with a Fatal Error :(

  • KerriG

    (@kerrig)


    12 years, 7 months ago

    I am the DUMMY that WordPress for Dummies was probably written for, so please have mercy on me.

    I inherited a website from a non-profit school organization that I volunteer at.

    Today I was trying to upload a new theme and now I’m getting a fatal error and I’ve searched and tried everything I could find. I don’t know how to FTP, I don’t know what a “Shell” is, I don’t know much — aside from how to make a few, infreqeuent tweaks to a site that someone set up a few years back. NOW I can’t get to the admin page on the site. The site is down, people are contacting me saying, “site is down”, etc. 🙁

    Here’s the error:
    Fatal error: Call to undefined function add_editor_style() in D:\Inetpub\brooklinepto\wordpress\wp-content\themes\brand-new-day\functions.php on line 60

    Here’s the website I’m TRYING to fix: http://www.brooklinepto.org

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  • emke

    (@emke)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    Well, there are several things you could try but the easiest that I can think of is to try to remove D:\Inetpub\brooklinepto\wordpress\wp-content\themes\brand-new-day\functions.php (keep a backup of the file of course) as the theme will then use the main functions.php.
    If WP works after that, log in to WP Admin and revert to your old theme. If this doesn’t work upload again functions.php and try to comment out the lines that are not working…

    This should be a lesson to never test on the production/live environment.

    slamman

    (@slamman)

    12 years, 7 months ago

    I agree with emke, but unless you have physical access to the server you are going to need to learn to use FTP quickly. It’s not to difficult. Download Filezilla. You will most likely need the username and password for the ftp account of the domain user.

    Good Luck!

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