Title: function.require problem after restore
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# function.require problem after restore

 *  Resolved [missmoffat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missmoffat/)
 * (@missmoffat)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionrequire-problem-after-restore/)
 * Hello
 * A site I have worked on has been hacked – Google is listing it as suspicious 
   and has a warning message up on it. I investigated and saw that the only thing
   to do was delete the current site and restore it from a backup. I’ve just done
   this via Filezilla but when I go to the site it brings up this error message:
   
   Warning: require(/home/petrabis/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp.php) [function.
   require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/petrabis/
   public_html/wp-settings.php on line 70
 * Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/petrabis/
   public_html/wp-includes/class-wp.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/
   lib/php’) in /home/petrabis/public_html/wp-settings.php on line 70
 * I can see no class-wp.php document in the wp-includes folder and so am baffled
   as to how to resolve this. Any advice very gratefully received – the site has
   been down for a week now and my client is anxious of course for it to be up and
   running again. Many thanks

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionrequire-problem-after-restore/#post-2406016)
 * > I can see no class-wp.php document in the wp-includes folder
 * I do. Try re-downloading a fresh copy of WordPress.
 *  Thread Starter [missmoffat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missmoffat/)
 * (@missmoffat)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionrequire-problem-after-restore/#post-2406117)
 * Thanks for this – it was that simple! My backup for some reason didn’t have the
   class-wp.php document but the latest download of WordPress did – phew!

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 * [class-wp.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/class-wp-php/)
 * [fatal error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fatal-error/)
 * [function.require](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/function-require/)

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 * Last reply from: [missmoffat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/missmoffat/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionrequire-problem-after-restore/#post-2406117)
 * Status: resolved

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