Fatal Error – WP_Widget not found

  • krakenexe

    (@krakenexe)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    I’m trying to manage a site for a company I started working for last week, we run a lot of wordpress installations off a single server. We’re currently experiencing an issue where we get
    Fatal error: Class 'WP_Widget' not found in /home/intaglio/public_html/wp-includes/widgets/class-wp-widget-pages.php on line 17
    Thrown at us on ever single page. I tried manually updating by deleting and adding the newest version of wp-admin, and wp-includes, and updating the contents without erasing the folder in wp-content.
    I’ve tried disabling all of the plugins by renaming the plugins folder plugins.hold, and I’ve even tried renaming the themes that were currently active, with no affect on anything.

    I’m at the end of my witts here, and appreciate any and all help you guys are able to provie, I’m quite a wordpress nooby but I feel like the steps I took should have fixed it.

    For other documentations we have a second developer who is somewhat lazy and doesn’t keep backups so restoring backups is a no go, and I called the hosting company and they have no backups. I haven’t been able to reach out to him however, so there has been no help due to management. Also to note you can’t access the wp-admin page.

    Here’s the website for those of you out there that feel that you need the live example
    ltyc.org

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  • David Artiss

    (@dartiss)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Which version of WordPress is installed? This sounds like an installation issue and simply re-installing a fresh copy of WordPress (don’t touch the database – it’s just the files!) should resolve this.

    Thread Starter krakenexe

    (@krakenexe)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    I’m running version 4.3.4, and how do you mean it sounds like I need to re-install a fresh copy of wordpress? I’m really nooby, so I presumed that updating those folders with the latest version might have fixed it.

    David Artiss

    (@dartiss)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    What about the files in the root folder (the folder that contains wp-includes, etc)? From past experience, it’s more than likely going to be a file there. So, basically do the same but the files there.

    Thread Starter krakenexe

    (@krakenexe)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    I’m not sure but I managed to find a wpress file… So I restored from that. But I lost a ton of content, I did however make a back up.

    David Artiss

    (@dartiss)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Ok, I think you really need to get a professional involved. There should be no reason to be losing content if you’re replacing the root WP files, so I suspect you’ve managed to do something else.

    Thread Starter krakenexe

    (@krakenexe)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    I restored from a .wpress file and ended up losing some of the site. I’m supposed to be a somewhat professional here, but I’m not too positive on all of wordpresses nuances and how it works completely, but I was hired in to be a wordpress developer though… The other developer here knows even less and only edits themes and sends them live.

    Thread Starter krakenexe

    (@krakenexe)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Plus I wasn’t the one who built this site… So I’m confused on a lot of stuff, especially since it wasn’t maintained.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Try re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder and wp-config.php & root .htaccess files – from a fresh download of WordPress 4.5.1. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

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