Title: Website down with &#8220;Fatal error&#8221;
Last modified: December 12, 2016

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# Website down with “Fatal error”

 *  [vegburgerhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegburgerhi/)
 * (@vegburgerhi)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/)
 * Since updating to the new 4.7, my website at [http://vegburge.com/](http://vegburge.com/)
   is totally down. When I try to navigate to the main page or log in to admin, 
   all I get on the screen is this:
 * Fatal error: Call to a member function do_all_hook() on a non-object in /www/
   sites/058/16d/www.vegburge.com/web/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 837
 * Fatal error: Call to a member function do_all_hook() on a non-object in /www/
   sites/058/16d/www.vegburge.com/web/wp-includes/plugin.php on line 837
 * I’ve been through the master list and tried the following things:
 * clear your browser’s cache and cookies
    Deactivating all plugins and mu-plugins
   through FTP
 * I’m really not savvy with this stuff so that was about as much as I could manage
   by reading through guides, the rest of the options on the list might as well 
   be in Greek for as much as I understand them. The only other one I could do was
   to change the theme to twentysixteen, but of course I don’t even have twentysixteen
   installed, so that wasn’t going to be much help. I would try deleting all but
   the theme I use, but then I don’t remember which one I use anyway as I last changed
   this stuff probably a year and a half ago at least.
 * I have no idea what to do and my blog is completely down. I have back-ups from
   last week but that would lose me a post and I don’t want to do that if there’s
   another way. I’ve got a post due for tonight so this is stressing me out.

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 *  [Arnel C.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arncus/)
 * (@arncus)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8543696)
 * Hello Vegburgerhi,
 * Sorry for the problem with your website. Apparently, this issue was addressed
   in an earlier support post. They did the same thing (upgrade to 4.7) and had 
   the same error. Please see this [post ](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-call-to-a-member-function-do_all_hook-on-array-in/)
   for a resolution of the issue that may work for you.
 * Regards,
    Arnel C.
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [Arnel C.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arncus/).
      Reason: fixing the post
 *  [WisTex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wistex/)
 * (@wistex)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8543725)
 * Sam problem here. Even disabled all the plugins and themes and put it in safe
   mode. Plain vanilla WordPress 4.7 crashes with a memory error.
 *  Thread Starter [vegburgerhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegburgerhi/)
 * (@vegburgerhi)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8543775)
 * Arnel – Thanks for that link but it lists the things I have already discussed
   above. I don’t know how to do what is being suggested without destroying my whole
   site even further. As I said, I’m not experienced in the behind-the-scenes stuff,
   which is basically why I went for a WordPress site in the first place.
 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8544185)
 * [@vegburgerhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegburgerhi/) What theme are
   you using? It is possible the theme is causing this error. Also, if I know you
   can not access your wp-admin but if you could try to job your memory and tell
   us what plugins you are using that might help as well!
 * [@wistex](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wistex/) It will be easier for 
   us to help you if you start a new thread and answer the questions above. Also
   please be sure to include the exact error in your post when you start the new
   thread.
 * Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [vegburgerhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegburgerhi/)
 * (@vegburgerhi)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8544234)
 * [@binarywc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/) I really can’t remember
   which theme I have. I can see my list of them but not which one is activated.
   I’ve turned all my plugins off so they shouldn’t be affecting things anymore 
   anyway?
 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8544249)
 * Okay, you disabled plugins through ftp by changing the name of the directory 
   correct?
 * As for the theme can you send a list of the themes you have? Are you able to 
   access wp-admin or that give the same errors? If you can access wp-admin then
   you will be able to tell exactly what theme you have.
 *  Thread Starter [vegburgerhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegburgerhi/)
 * (@vegburgerhi)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8544291)
 * [@binarywc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
    Yes, that’s right.
   I can’t access wp-admin at all.
 * Themes are:
    gdvintage munding-lite sketch twentyfifteen twentyfourteen twentythirteen
   twentytwelve vryn-restaurant
 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8544313)
 * While I was waiting on your reply I went out to google and found a cached version
   of your site. Reviewing the code of the cached version of the site from before
   you updated it looks like you are using the Sketch theme.
 * Are you comfortable editing the DB through phpMyAdmin? If not, do you have someone
   available on your team who is? You can change the theme to a default theme via
   the db and see if the error persists by following these instructions:
 * [http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/wordpress/change-theme-in-db](http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/wordpress/change-theme-in-db)
 *  Thread Starter [vegburgerhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegburgerhi/)
 * (@vegburgerhi)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8544347)
 * There’s no team – just me. I have no idea how to use phpMyAdmin or to be honest
   even if I have one. I followed the instructions on that link to log in to cPanel
   and both of the browser address options are throwing up the same error as I have
   with wp-admin anyway.
 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8544390)
 * So did you change the theme in the DB or were you not successful with doing that?
 * If you were unsuccessful, kindly tell me who your website is hosted with and 
   I can try to help you further here in the support boards. The other option you
   have is to post a job at Jobs.WordPress.net. This is an easy change to test if
   the theme is causing the issue. Unfortunately, though, exchanging contact info
   and/or login credentials is prohibited here in the support boards.
 *  Thread Starter [vegburgerhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegburgerhi/)
 * (@vegburgerhi)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8545266)
 * Like I said, I wasn’t able to get into phpMyAdmin. I’m hosted with LCN.
 *  Thread Starter [vegburgerhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegburgerhi/)
 * (@vegburgerhi)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8545321)
 * I just had someone else’s help to go through the guide to manually update WordPress.
   I’ve done that, deleted all non-generic themes, and the site is still not working.
   I’ve deleted most of my plugins, I’ve lost all my theme settings, and it’s still
   not made any difference.
 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8545363)
 * You should always backup before making drastic changes. I have seen this error
   in the past after running updates and had the same issue where switching to default
   theme and disabling plugins did not fix it. Let me do some digging to find the
   fix. It may take me a few days to find the fix. I have it saved in my favorites
   some where and have have thousands of favorites.
 * It is possible someone with more experience and a better memory than myself may
   chime in before I do with the fix so follow the thread!
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 7 months ago by [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/).
 *  Thread Starter [vegburgerhi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vegburgerhi/)
 * (@vegburgerhi)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8545371)
 * I have a backup, but surely I’m going to run into the same problem again as soon
   as I try to update? Besides the fact I have no idea how to get the backup loaded
   in and which directories to save stuff into. I can’t just keep it on the old 
   wordpress version forever.
 *  [Davood Denavi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/binarywc/)
 * (@binarywc)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-down-with-fatal-error/#post-8545384)
 * No, I meant you should have taken another backup before making the changes I 
   suggested.

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