The reason for the error should be visible in the error log. You can find it in your hosting area. If necessary, the support of your hosting can help you.
Alternatively, you could also enable debugging in WordPress. How to do this is described here: https://developer.wordpress.org/advanced-administration/debug/debug-wordpress/ – also here the support of your hosting can help you if necessary to edit the file accordingly.
In both cases you should be able to see what the cause is in the logfile.
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JOHN S.
(@emergencyloan)
I added “WP_DEBUG” to the wp-config.php file, but the error log file didn’t appear.
In addition to setting WP_DEBUG, you must also set WP_DEBUG_LOG. Then, reload the page to trigger the error. After that, a debug.log file should appear in the wp-content directory.
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JOHN S.
(@emergencyloan)
After that, a debug.log file should appear in the wp-content directory.
No such file((
I tried adding these lines:
// Enable Debug logging to the /wp-content/debug.log file
define( ‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true );
// Enable Debug logging to the /wp-content/debug.log file
define( ‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true );
And these too:
// Disable display of errors and warnings
define( ‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, false );
@ini_set( ‘display_errors’, 0 );
// Use dev versions of core JS and CSS files (only needed if you are modifying these core files)
define( ‘SCRIPT_DEBUG’, true );
I don’t know if you just copied it wrong, but something’s still off. The correct version would be:
// Enable Debug logging
define( 'WP_DEBUG', true );
// Enable Debug logging to the /wp-content/debug.log file
define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );
And if that just won’t work, contact your hosting provider’s support team to request their error log, which should actually contain that information.
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JOHN S.
(@emergencyloan)
Oh my god, really… Thanks so much for your help!
Judging by the errors, it seems like the problem is with the theme? That’s odd, since I didn’t make any changes. The problem with creating new pages/posts just appeared out of the blue.
