Sarah Minx

What exactly is the problem? What is not working?

If it is the same issue, did you update WordPress when this happened? If so, did you update the Arras theme also? I don’t want to assume that since you don’t know how to remove the theme that it also hasn’t been updated.

I use 1and1… so… with a little more info on what is happening I can walk you through the interface and help you out there need be.

Yeah, good to know. I didn’t install it myself though. It auto activated when I updated BuddyPress… that was also one of the reasons why I had no idea it was even there. I didn’t search it, download it, or install it. Was a part of the brand new BP package.

Glad we got it all sorted out!

Esmi, thank you!

I finally figured out what the issue was. I had to keep the BuddyPress plugin active and the BuddyPress Activity Stream Bar, after that I started to activate random plugins and deactivating them if no changes occurred. Come to find out it was a plugin called BuddyPress Backwards Compatibility that was developed by the BuddyPress Community. I verified this issue and it is 100% that plugin. I have let them know.

BuddyPress Backwards Compatibility

Code that is needed to maintain backwards compatibility with previous versions of BuddyPress. Contains code for wire component, status updates, and functions that have been renamed or replaced.

Version 0.6 | By The BuddyPress Community

Thank you again for all of your assistance!

Alright kids!

As I am updating a bunch of these files… I see that the dates are much older than the ones I am replacing them with — that shouldn’t be because I already replaced them (and the dates were showing updated). The only thing I can think is I accidentally toggled the “Always use this action” for Overwrite in Filezilla instead of having it ask me all of the time (like I normally do)… and something from within Filezilla must have gotten messed up because once I got home — I tried again and it all worked.

I guess we can all add this to our troubleshooting (I have heard of this before but since the dated reflected the correct ones — I didn’t give it a second look, especially since I had already deleted and replaced all of the files).

Thanks again for your help!

Alright, based on what you said… this could go two ways.

The “theme’s” folder, meaning the Arras theme folder, if so:
I backed up my old CSS files and removed the old Arras folder and then re-uploaded the Arras theme. Still having issues.

The “themes” folder, if so:
I also tried to replace everything the Arras folder with the files in the Themes folder, no go.

Also deleted all themes completely and re-uploaded so that only the Twenty Eleven theme folder, Twent Ten theme folder, and new updated index.php were all that was in the Themes directory.

Regardless, I still get the same error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined method WP_Widget_Factory::register() in /homepages/26/d318058896/htdocs/totallymi/wp-includes/widgets.php on line 431

Is there some sort of manual toggle to tell WordPress to use “default” theme instead of Arras?

As I stated in the message above, I have manually updated my theme and I have also installed the most current version of Arras, the Arras error went away and the only error that remains is in the WordPress widgets.php.

Please re-read my post again if you need clarification.

Thank you for your post though.