Title: Problem after update
Last modified: March 12, 2021

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# Problem after update

 *  Resolved [trevorrnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevorrnr/)
 * (@trevorrnr)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-after-update-66/)
 * I updated wordpress yesterday and now I cant login to my site through wordpress.
   When I do it says ‘There has been a critical error on this website’.
    When I 
   look at the website in a browser, the heading title, menu and headings of the
   sidebar show, but there is no content on any of the pages. I have used control
   panel file manger to rename the plugin directory with no effect. I also renamed
   the theme the site uses and that results in a completely blank page. So I have
   reverted back to the correct theme name and the site is back to no content.
 * It may be that another user was logged in when the update was done
 * Can anyone help please
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fproblem-after-update-66%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [lisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contentiskey/)
 * (@contentiskey)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-after-update-66/#post-14172647)
 * -can you check in the database to see if the content is still present for the
   posts/pages?
    -do you have more than 1 theme installed? (i.e. Neve and Twenty
   Twenty) -do you have a backup of your database and files to restore your site?
 *  Thread Starter [trevorrnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevorrnr/)
 * (@trevorrnr)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-after-update-66/#post-14172748)
 * Thanks fir the reply
    I don’t know how to check the database I do have two themes
   installed I have a backup of the site, using updraftplus. however it is backed
   up on the site, so I guess I would need to copy that to my local machine
 *  [lisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contentiskey/)
 * (@contentiskey)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-after-update-66/#post-14172790)
 * does your webhosting vendor offer access to an area called PHPMYADMIN
    often 
   the database is available in that area (there is a table wp_posts in the database
   that contains the content for pages, posts, custom post types and attachments
   of your website)
 *  Thread Starter [trevorrnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevorrnr/)
 * (@trevorrnr)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-after-update-66/#post-14173094)
 * Yes it does have phpmyadmin. Under the structure tab, there is wpkf_posts
 *  [lisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/contentiskey/)
 * (@contentiskey)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-after-update-66/#post-14174199)
 * That’s great news if you found the posts table.
    Is the content still present
   in your posts?
 *  Thread Starter [trevorrnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevorrnr/)
 * (@trevorrnr)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-after-update-66/#post-14174312)
 * there is reference in the table to the sites pages and content. I have not checked
   every line of the table.
    I do have the content elsewhere, so at a push I could
   re-enter the text. Its the media that would be a big job, as there are a lot 
   of documents.
 *  Thread Starter [trevorrnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevorrnr/)
 * (@trevorrnr)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-after-update-66/#post-14184370)
 * I was wondering if I should download the latest version of WordPress to my computer
   and upload the files to my site via FTP or control panel file manager. I assume
   that I should not over write wp-content
 *  Thread Starter [trevorrnr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/trevorrnr/)
 * (@trevorrnr)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-after-update-66/#post-14200234)
 * I have solved the issue. Downloaded the latest version of wordpress. I then over
   wrote all of the downloaded files and folders except wp_content on my site, using
   FTP.
 * The site now works and all the content is intact

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