• I just installed updates to my themes and DIVI, and as soon as it loade3d, my site crahsed and I’m getting a message saying “There has been a critical error on this website.” When I try to log in to the WP dashboard, I get a message saying “There has been a critical error on this website. Please check your site admin email inbox for instructions.”

    HELP!!! My entire site is down, I have no eemail explaining WTF went wrong, and I can’t access anything!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)
  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Try manually resetting your plugins (no Dashboard access required). If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.

    If that does not resolve the issue, access your server via SFTP or FTP, or a file manager in your hosting account’s control panel (consult your hosting provider’s documentation for specifics on these), navigate to /wp-content/themes/ and rename the directory of your currently active theme. Hopefully, this will force the default theme to activate and rule out a theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).

    As for the email not sending, it sounds like your hosting provider has disabled PHP’s mail() function, which WordPress uses to send you email notifications and is also used by contact form plugins and more.

    This is a common safeguard employed by hosting providers when they suspect that another customer on the same server is sending spam emails directly from the server.

    Another alternative is that PHP’s mail() function is still active, but spammer activity from the server has already caused any email sent from it to be blocklisted. This would result in the emails being sent but never received by any email address with basic anti-spam capabilities.

    You can check this by leaving a comment on your site and checking if you receive an email. Another alternative would be to use the Health Check plugin and send yourself a test email from the plugin’s Tools tab to see if it works.

    If you didn’t receive a test email, you could try using an SMTP plugin to configure your WordPress site to use your email’s outgoing mail server instead of PHP’s mail() function.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

The topic ‘New Theme Crashed My Site!!’ is closed to new replies.